Will King Speaker at MADE Festival for Entrepreneurs Sheffield

Will King

Founder of King of Shaves

Will King is the founder of shaving company King of Shaves. He was made redundant in the early nineties from his job with the marketing agency Fountainhead Communications and had always experienced problems with shaving. In 1992 he created a shaving oil product that eased the pain, rash and burn he experience during shaving.

King approached Harrods, the London department store, and secured the personal agreement of owner Mohamed Al-Fayed to stock the new product. He then hand-filled 9,600 bottles in his kitchen, using a "gunk pump" given to him by a friend in the yacht business.

The King of Shaves brand has overtaken Wilkinson Sword and Nivea to become number two to Gillette in the shaving prep market in the UK, and the products are also taking off in the US.

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Dale Murray Speaker at MADE Festival for Entrepreneurs Sheffield

Dale Murray

Angel investor

Dale Murray co-founded Omega Logic in 1999 and launched pre-pay mobile “top-ups” in to the UK after winning contracts with all the mobile network operators. She built revenues to £7m within three years of founding the business, then sold to a privately held company, Eposs Limited. Dale later became Eposs’s CEO, doubling revenues within two years.
She left in 2005 and is now an angel investor in early-stage entrepreneurial businesses. She was named Angel Investor of the Year 2011. 

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Jude Ower Speaker at MADE festival for Entrepreneurs Sheffield

Jude Ower

Founder of The Play Mob

Jude Ower is the founder of The Play Mob, creating social games for social good. Jude has been developing educational based games for ten years across corporate, education and government and is one of the leading thought leaders in the space of "games for good". She is now creating a new wave of games for informal learning on social networks, which link game actions to real world causes.

Jude is a BAFTA member and games judge, a member of TIGA and the IGDA and a speaker at events such as SXSW, World of Learning, Games Based Learning, the IoD annual convention and the Serious Games Summit.

Jude Ower will be speaking at MADE: The entrepreneur festival in Sheffield. 19th - 21st of September 2012.

Howard Leigh Speaker at MADE festival for Entrepreneurs Sheffield

Howard Leigh

Senior partner, Corporate Cavendish Finance

Howard graduated in Economics and, after a short spell in UK merchant banking, joined Deloitte Haskins & Sells where he qualified as a chartered accountant. He transferred to the corporate tax department where he further qualified with the Chartered Institute of Taxation.

In early 1986, Howard established Deloitte's Mergers and Acquisitions Group and developed an expertise in company sales. In May 1988 he left to set up Cavendish Corporate Finance.
Howard is a frequent lecturer, author and broadcaster on mergers and acquisitions and has written the Good Practice Guideline: Selling a Business, published by the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Howard was until recently the chairman of the Faculty of Corporate Finance of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, which represents some 5,000 corporate financiers. In 2008, he was awarded the Faculty’s Outstanding Achievement in Corporate Finance award. Howard has served as an alternate to the president of the Institute on the Takeover Panel.

Howard has been a Vice President of M&A International Inc, the world's leading independent and largest corporate finance network, covering some 47 firms in 40 countries. Howard chairs a number of charitable concerns and is a Senior Treasurer of the Conservative Party.

Howard Leigh will be speaking at MADE: The entrepreneur festival in Sheffield. 19th - 21st of September 2012.

Lord Young Speaker at MADE festival for Entrepreneurs Sheffield

Lord Young of Graffham

Enterprise advisor to the Prime Minister

Lord Young is a retired British Conservative politician and businessman. He is the elder son of a businessman who imported flour and later set up as a manufacturer of coats for children.

He went to Christ's College in Finchley and then University College London to take a law degree as an evening student during his time as an articled clerk to become a solicitor, being admitted to the roll of solicitors in 1955. However, he only practised for a year, after which he joined the Great Universal Stores as an executive and an assistant to the chairman, Sir Isaac Wolfson Bt.

He entered Parliament in 1975 as a Conservative Member of Parliament. During his parliamentary career, Lord Young served as the Secretary of State for Employment and as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry during the eighties.

After the 1987 election where he had a key role, he became Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade. He retired from government in July 1989, serving as Deputy Chairman of the Party until June 1990. That year also saw the publication of his book The Enterprise Years.
Lord Young founded Young Associates, a private equity house in 1996 where he is currently chairman. He is also chairman of a number of companies on AIM, enterprise advisor to the Prime Minister and the pioneer of the StartUp Loan scheme.

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Lord Bilimoria CBE Speaker at MADE festival for Entrepreneurs Sheffield

Lord Bilimoria CBE

Chairman of Cobra Beer

Lord Karan Bilimoria CBE is an entrepreneur and a life peer. He founded Cobra Beer in 1989, working with a brewer to create a product, designed to appeal to lager and ale drinkers alike, and go well with spicy Indian food.

Bilimoria received the CBE in 2004 for services to business. He is the deputy president of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and an Honorary Life Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA). He held the position of mentor in the Joint Police Mentoring Initiative and is a former Representative Deputy Lieutenant for the London Borough of Hounslow and is the Chancellor of Thames Valley University – the UK’s youngest at the time of his appointment.

He is a champion of the Make Your Mark campaign for enterprise and national champion of the National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship.

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Lara Morgan Speaker at MADE festival for Entrepreneurs Sheffield

Lara Morgan

Founder of Pacific Direct and Company Shortcuts

Lara Morgan is most widely known for building her own international business, Pacific Direct, over the course of 17 years before selling a majority share of the company for £20m in 2008.

Lara is passionate about high-growth business support and motivating business-owners. She is the author of More Balls than Most and founder of Company Shortcuts, a source of practical advice and frameworks to enable businesses leaders to achieve accelerated growth. Lara intends to be the voice for growth enterprise support encouraging investment in those whom have taken the brave steps to start to build a business. She is a regular commentator on current affairs and business issues with Sky and BBC News.

Lara Morgan will be speaking at this years MADE The Entrepreneur Festival: Sheffield along side many of world famous Entrepreneurs.

Kanya King Speaker at MADE festival for Entrepreneurs Sheffiled

Kanya King MBE

CEO and founder of MOBO

Kanya King MBE is an internationally recognised entrepreneur and innovator in the British music industry. As CEO and founder of MOBO, Kanya is the dynamic force behind the MOBO Awards and has played an instrumental role in elevating urban music and culture to mainstream popular status in the UK.

Kanya’s dedication to MOBO music has since been recognised by a number of influential and prominent bodies. Recent accolades include being listed in The 2011 Guardian Music Power 100 and being honoured as a patron of Music at City of Westminster College.

She has been listed in Real Business Britain’s 100 Most Entrepreneurial Women and the Evening Standard’s 1000 London Most Influential People for a number of years. In addition to this she has received numerous honours for her business and community achievements including an Honorary Fellowship at Goldsmith University and a Doctorate of Business at both London and Leeds Metropolitan Universities.
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Joe Cohen Speaker at MADE festival for Entrepreneurs Sheffield

Joe Cohen

Founder of Seatwave

Joe Cohen is founder and CEO of Seatwave, having started the company in May 2006. Seatwave has since become a market leader in this emerging space.

Before setting up Seatwave, Joe started and ran the international division of Match.com from 2001 to 2006. He oversaw the development and operations of the Match business in 35 countries and 18 languages.

Prior to this, Joe was vice president and general manager of Ticketmaster.com for Europe where he was one of the pioneers of the European online ticketing industry.

Joe Cohen will be speaking at this years MADE The Entrepreneur Festival: Sheffield along side many of world famous Entrepreneurs.

James Lohan Speaker at MADE festival for Entrepreneurs Sheffield

James Lohan

Co-founder of Mr & Mrs Smith

James Lohan started his entrepreneurial career in 1994 by founding Atomic, organising London parties and events. Next, he ran restaurant and members’ club the White House, before turning his attentions to boutique hotels.

Since Mr & Mrs Smith’s first guidebook was published under the Spy Publishing imprint in 2003, Smith has grown from a labour of love to a multi-faced boutique travel provider, developing an online booking service, a 24-hour in-house reservations team, and a three-tiered membership programme which includes a full travel and lifestyle concierge service.

Under the helm of James and his wife Tama, the company has opened offices in New York and Melbourne, and now has more than 480,000 members worldwide. Last year, mrandmrssmith.com was voted “favourite travel website” in the Condé Nast Traveller Readers’ Awards. 

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Doug Richard Speaker at MADE festival for Entrepreneurs Sheffield

Doug Richard

Dragon and founder of School for Startups

Doug Richard is the founder of School for Startups, a technology entrepreneur and one of the original panellists on Dragons' Den. He was also the founder of Cambridge Angels, chairman of the Conservative Party Small Business Task Force and an Honorary Recipient of The Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion in 2006.

Doug has always been a champion for startups and small businesses. Even before founding School for Startups, he actively mentored, coached and supported many entrepreneurs.

In 2008, after teaching a one-day class in entrepreneurship, Doug decided to found an enterprise dedicated to helping people start better, more profitable, businesses. Since 2008 he has taught thousands in face-to-face and online classes across the UK.

David Richards Speaker at MADE festival for Entrepreneurs Sheffield

David Richards

CEO and co-founder of WANdisco

David Richards is chairman and chief executive of WANdisco, which floated on the London Stock Exchange at the beginning of June 2012 with a market capitalisation of £37m. He has more than 15 years as an executive in the software industry and sits on both boards and advisory boards of Silicon Valley startup ventures. He has spoken and written widely about standards in application integration and the adoption of open-­source technologies.

Prior to WANdisco, David served as the president and CEO of Librados, where he took the company from an early-stage technology company to exponential customer and revenue growth. David led the company's acquisition by NetManage (Nasdaq:NETM) just over a year after joining the company.

Claire Young Speaker at MADE festival for Entrepreneurs Sheffield

Claire Young

Apprentice finalist and founder of School Speakers

Claire Young beat 30,000 candidates to reach The Apprentice final in 2008 and calls it her "steepest learning curve to date". After appearing on the show, she started School Speakers which provides motivational speakers for schools. Claire also teaches employ-ability skills, speaks at awards events, and runs enterprise days, business workshops and careers days.

Claire is a director of teenbiz UK, the UK's first under-18 business start-up funding scheme where one student receives up to £500 to fund their business each month, and the founder of Girls Out Loud, a social enterprise with a mission to raise the aspirations of teenage girls in the UK.

Claire Young will be speaking at this years MADE The Entrepreneur Festival: Sheffield along side many of world famous Entrepreneurs.

Charles Morgan Speaker at MADE - The Entrepreneur Festival Sheffield

Charles Morgan

Chairman of Morgan Motor Company

Charles Morgan is the grandson of H.F.S Morgan – the original founder o
f the iconic motor brand. Charles's father managed the company before it was passed on to him.
He is also a motivational speaker, focusing on topics such as change management, people management, export and sales, and marketing.

Prior to running Morgan Motor Company, Charles worked in the publishing industry and was a cameraman for ITN for ten years. Charles Morgan will be speaking at this years MADE The Entrepreneur Festival: Sheffield along side many of world famous Entrepreneurs.