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Scaling your business? Join LONDON #ScaleUp2Success
Due to popular demand, E2E & IWG's #ScaleUp2Success events series returns to London for an evening of inspirational, entrepreneurial conversation with 150 UK entrepreneurs. Are you a business Founder, CEO, Partner or Owner looking to scale your business? If so this event is a must attend for you.
E2E and our expert panel are on a mission to help the entrepreneurs behind the UK's scaling businesses overcome their barriers to growth and take it to the next level!
How will you benefit from attending?
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You will have the opportunity to connect with our inspirational speakers and an entrepreneurial community of Founders, CEOs, Chairman and Investors from Lodnon and the surrounding areas.
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You will have exclusive access to E2E's ecosystem of support by becoming an
E2E member for FREE, meaning invitations to our exclusive events, access to our £50m financing facility for SMEs and many more corporate services at discounted rates. -
At the event you will find a delicious range of drinks + canapés. Our special guest, Eminent Wines, will also be presenting a selection of wines, champagne and spirits created bespoke for their clients.
THE PANEL:
Ryan Kohn, Co-founder - PROPERCORN
Ryan is the co-founder of PROPERCORN, the UK’s number one premium popcorn company. In the space of just seven years, Ryan has taken PROPERCORN from kitchen table startup to kitchen cupboard staple, creating an award-winning brand with global distribution. Along with his business partner, Ryan now leads a team of 40 from their offices in London, selling more than 3 million packs of their popcorn per month.
Prior to his time at PROPERCORN, serial entrepreneur, Ryan, founded his own environmentally-friendly property company. Aged just 25, he was recognised for his innovative development work, being awarded the best single unit award in the UK Property Awards.
Passionate about people as well as the planet, in 2009 Ryan launched the celebrated London For London campaign. The initiative, which worked to help eradicate the issue of violence amongst young people, received widespread support and endorsement from HRH Prince William. In 2017, Ryan went on to launch an initiative called 10 For 10, working with actor and friend Riz Ahmed to raise money for Syrian Refugees. In two months, they raised over $215,000.
For the past 7 years, Ryan has brought not only extensive commercial understanding and resilience to the PROPERCORN table, but also a passion for conducting business in the right way. This year, PROPERCORN became a certified B Corp. Now an ambassador for the non-profit organisation, Ryan is a huge proponent and representative for their vision: that one day all companies will compete not only to be the best in the world but be the best for the world. On a mission to encourage both people and business’ to live more sustainably, Ryan also sits on the board of the Hubbub foundation.
Since lauching PROPERCORN, Ryan has also made mentorship of others, both internally and externally, an enormous part of his working life. His passion for entrepreneurship has seen him involved in Tesco’s Back It initiative and Virgin Start-Ups while also giving advice to over 200 businesses in the last 5 years. Ryan has been rewarded for his efforts in both business and mentorship, receiving the prestigious EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
@ryankohneco @PROPERCORN
Melanie Leach, CEO - Twofour Group
As Chief Executive of the Twofour Group Melanie oversees nine companies producing a wide range of comedy, drama and unscripted television. Prior to being appointed as CEO in July 2014, Melanie was MD of Twofour Broadcast, during which time the company was named Indie of the Year at the 2010 and 2014 Broadcast Awards.
Recent hits from the group include the Emmy Award-winning Educating… brand (C4), Rose D’Or Winner, The Real Marigold Hotel (BBC1) The Jump (C4); Unforgotten (ITV1); Motherland (BBC2) and the world’s fastest selling new format, This Time Next Year (ITV1).
Melanie began her career in production and continues to executive produce some of Twofour’s most popular shows, including This Time Next Year, and Channel 5's longest running series, The Hotel Inspector.
Eddie Obeng - Educator, Global TED speaker, Author and Visionary
“Our Secret Weapon” - Santander 
He’s the person behind:
- the innovation bursts at Allianz Cornhill, Danone, Rank, Cadburys
- the delivery of successful innovation projects at IDEO
- the successful delivery of projects in Telefonica, JPMorgan, GlaxoSmithKline, Cazanove, Electronic Arts
- the successful deployment of technology at Citigroup - inspiring change and leadership in HSBC, Co-op
- the turn-around of Rolls Royce Motor cars & Magnet ... and much more
He invented:
- QUBE enterprise-learning social media (
- the term ‘virtual teams’
- the R.A.B.B.I.TTM Innovation Model
- the 4 types of change - StickyStepsTM planning ... and many more formidable tools, frameworks and concepts
What makes him different?
Born in Africa and “brought up with a strong oral tradition” makes him a brilliant orator and presenter.
“At 32 he was the youngest business school executive director in Europe at Ashridge Business School” and learned the skills and competences needed to ‘herd cats’.
“An early career with Shell” prepared him for globalisation and complexity.
“An entrepreneur and the Founder of Pentacle, the world’s first Virtual Business School” which forces him to ‘take his own medicine’ and practice what he preaches.
“By 45 he had researched, and invented all the frameworks for an entire alternative MBA”, based on the premise that the world is complex and changes faster than most organisations can learn.
“A Professor at the School of Growth Innovation and Enterprise” at Henley Business School which gives him good links to the rest of the consulting and education community.
What do people think of him?
A ‘leading revolutionary’ - Financial Times
Energetic and impassioned - Google
Eddie is fab! - IDEO
The remarkable Eddie Obeng - Chris Anderson TED
The Rockstar of Business Education - Duke Corporate Education
An agent provocateur - Financial Times
High energy, inspiring, thought-provoking, highly effective - Microsoft
We will also be joined by...
Richard Morris, CEO - IWG UK
Richard is the CEO of IWG UK. He joined in 2014 following his role as CEO of G4S’s UK & Ireland Division. IWG UK is the world’s largest provider of flexible workspace solutions offering a fast growing global network of 3,000 locations in 120 countries. Since joining, Richard has consistently delivered year on year growth for Regus’ UK division.
Shalini Khemka - Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Board Director, E2E
Shalini founded E2Exchange (E2E) in 2011 with the mission to develop the largest & most active entrepreneurial ecosystem in the UK to enable extraordinary entrepreneurship.
E2E focuses on connecting Founders, champions entrepreneurship, creates communities and invests capital via their GBP50m facility to finance high growth companies. Coupled with this, E2E places leading Non-Exec Directors on the boards of scale-up companies and provides an ecosystem of support to Founders include a suite of world class services at entrepreneurially driven rates. It’s Board includes: Lord Bilimoria CBE DL, Duncan Bannatyne OBE, Kanya King MBE, Hugh Chappell and Darryl Eales.
Prior to establishing E2E, Shalini was an Investment Director at LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyd's Banking Group and historically, she ran the Group’s 'plain vanilla' International Trade Finance business. Shalini co-founded the world’s first online 'bank to bank' trade finance company. She was a Management Accountant at Deutsche Bank and worked in various finance related roles for Bankers Trust, NatWest Bank and Coopers & Lybrand.
Shalini is a Member of the Mayor of London’s Business Advisory Board. She is a Non-Executive Director of UK Export Finance (UKEF) and a Fellow of Burton & South Derbyshire College. Shalini is also a judge for the Great British Entrepreneurs Awards and The National Business Awards. Shalini is a Champion for Tech London Advocates, a Member of the Advisory Committee of the Commonwealth Entrepreneurs and an Ambassador for Recordsure. She was formerly on the Advisory Board of the Centre for Entrepreneurs (CFE), The Development Board of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and was a judge for IBM Smartcamp.
Our host for the evening will be:
Russell Dalgleish, Founder and Managing Partner – Exolta Capital Partners, Co-founder – Scottish Business Network, Serial Entrepreneur, Investor, Board Advisor, Strategist and Chairman.
Russell Dalgleish is a Serial Scottish Entrepreneur and Investor, Strategist, Innovator and Business Coach. He has focused his energies on driving international growth for business in the SME sector.
Since 1999, Russell has run successful companies in the technology, engineering, energy, electronics, entertainment and professional services sectors. He has experience starting, building, growing and exiting businesses in the UK and US.
His core areas of focus are: leadership, value creation and strategic thinking. Russell is a regular speaker at events on leadership in business and has spoken at conferences from Los Angeles to Abu Dhabi. Currently, he is the Founder & Managing Partner of the consultancy Exolta Capital Partners.
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Disclaimer: Please note that event timings and dates are subject to change. Our event is designed for founders of growing businesses and business leaders. We try where possible to keep exclusivity. Should E2E deem your position as not suitable for our event, one of our team will remove you from our attendee list and you will be notified. Overt selling will be frowned upon.
