WES Guest Speakers Easter 2020

 

About the Event

Around the world, companies and businesses are developing innovative ways to revamp the economy, serve their customers, and stay in business using the best practices possible. COVID-19 is making us think in a way we never thought would be possible with firms and institutions embracing the virtual world to keep to social distancing rules while staying in business. 

The role of entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs in helping us deal with COVID-19 cannot be overemphasized. From improving testing processes to building online tools to work from home and developing news way of meeting the demands of customers among others. 

The world will never be the same post-COVID-19 and it is imperative that we prepare ourselves to live in this new normal and find the best way to help firms, institutions, students, employers, employees and governments prepare for a future without COVID-19 or similar threats as well as build capacity to help the world better prepare to deal with situations like this. 

What to expect

In this panel discussion, we would expect to cover the following;

1. The relationship between entrepreneur Vs intrapreneur (How they can lead transformational changes, strategy, operation development and execution)
2. The place of entrepreneurship/intrapreneurship in helping businesses navigate through COVID-19 (Marketing and business development strategies)
3. What can startups do to navigate this difficult time? (Building confident, showing leadership in the face of adversary and aiming for success)
4. Is COVID-19 100 % set back for startups or golden opportunity to scale?
5.  How can entrepreneurs adapt in a post-COVID-19 world (From idea, raising funds, to workable transformation in businesses )
6. The place of technology in all of these.
7. Any other related advice and suggestion will be welcomed

The panel will be moderated by David Izuogu, the Wolfson Entrepreneurs Society President.

About the Panellists

Before his role as Commercial Director at Blok Bioscience, Ed was an Investment Director in the deal team at venture capital company, Arix Bioscience plc, and was Managing Director of Arix’s Fund Management operation, Arix sources, finances and builds life science businesses addressing medical innovation at all stages of development. During his time at Arix, Ed led several investments across a range of fields and took a board seat to help guide development of the various technologies.

Before joining Arix Bioscience, Ed spent 18 years in finance as an equity analyst and portfolio manager in Europe and Australia. From 2004 to 2014, he was Head of Research at Alliance Bernstein and then a senior portfolio manager at AMP Capital, both in Sydney. In London, he has worked for JP Morgan, UBS and Alliance Bernstein.

Ed gained an MA in Chemistry and MSc in Management at the University of Oxford and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. He is experienced in Finance and Fundraising, Business Development as well as Biotechnology. His international expertise is in Global financial markets, UK, Australia and New Zealand.

 

Collette works for Redgate leading the company's global product marketing efforts in the security, data protection and privacy sector. Her previous experience includes working as VP Marketing in a data visualisation scale-up to help them to understand their identity and to develop their strategy and marketing approach. Her work has involved global brand development of both organisations and key personnel to enable company growth and investment. Her experience also includes a strategic role in consultancies for world-leading corporate organisations and highly innovative startups.

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Prior to his current role, Vincenzo was the Operation Officer and Chief of Staff for Enterprise Data & Analytics Programme, PMO director for Optimising Medical Evidence Generation Activities and Patient Centricity Excellence Director responsible for the strategic direction and delivery leadership of the overall capability programs to enable lifecycle teams to build patient value in R&D. 

Following his passion for the advancement of medicines for patients, before joining AstraZeneca, Vincenzo has led several projects at GlaxoSmithKline-UK in World Wide Business Development, in the Centres of Excellence for Drug Discovery, in Global Project & Portfolio Management and in Global Medical Affairs.

Vincenzo has contributed to several patented inventions, successfully led the in-licensing of gene-therapy treatments and built the Global Strategy, Operations and Governance for a number of programmes in Global Medical Affairs, in Global Medicine Development and in BioPharmaceutical R&D within GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca.

 

 

Mari works with senior professionals, high-level talent, CEOs and their boards. These people are smart, successful and doing well. However, they have one or more areas they know they could improve in, for example, relationship building, preventing conflict, improving communication, confidence, micromanaging, delegation issues or just overworking and not switching off. They know that this leads to inefficiency, affects their decision making and productivity and that this goes sideways into their personal lives. These people want to find balance in their lives. They know there’s an issue and that it needs fixing. They will often choose to coach when they need therapy as well, this is her speciality.

Mari also works with teams creating team understanding, cohesion, structure and passing on a coaching style structure of communication. She works with a clearly structured process which is solution-oriented and dynamic, whilst being human, relatable and authentic. She gets clients unstuck, happy and content. They stop worrying, make better decisions, increase productivity and realise their value and potential in all areas of their lives.

Mari’s goal is to enable leaders to find certainty and clarity from within so they create inspirational change in the world. Mari’s values are integrity, professionalism, clarity, equality and world peace! This transformation is underpinned from a  background of Executive Coaching, Conflict Mediator, Cognitive Hypnotherapy, & NLP Practitioner, teaching and she is also a Mother of 5 children!

 

Join us in this live session on any of the following platforms (No initial registration is required)

Date: Monday 15 June 2020

Time: 17:45 - 19:30 (GMT)

Location: Live across the listed platforms (see hyperlinks below)

Twitter - @wolfson_wes

Facebook - Wolfson Entrepreneurs' Society (WES) Facebook group

Youtube - Wolfson Entrepreneurs Society YouTube channel