Founders Panel: CEOs & Their Stories
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
If you could ask a start-up CEO anything, what would you ask?
- How did you get your idea?
- What's it like to pitch to investors?
- Where do I reach my target audience?
- How did you get your first customer or client?
- What's the biggest lesson you've learned so far?
Join us for a Founder's Panel with some of the best, brightest and most innovative CEOs of some of London's coolest start-ups. Panel includes:
Dan Hudson, CEO and Founder of gigl.
Dan's background is in finance, business and recruitment. He came up with the idea for gigl, the video based job platform, whilst in a full time job as the global head of recruitment for a US Bank. Trying to build a business as a side hustle whilst holding down a full time job was never going to be a recipe for success and he made the decision to go full time on gigl 12 months ago. The app platform was launched in Sept 2019 and now has over 50 active employers and 7000+ downloads. Gigl is in google's business incubator program and part of the Y combinator business school and aims to open a pre-seed funding round in the next 6 weeks.
Tahlia Gray, Founder of Sheer Chemistry.
Sheer Chemistry is an e-commerce hosiery brand, specialising in tights for women of all shades of brown. We're on a mission to create a more diverse perception of beauty and empower women to feel confident and gorgeous in their own skin.
Leo Taylor, Co-Founder & CEO of BUG.
BUG delivers delicious insect recipes for people to cook with at home. Insects are a delicious, sustainable, superfood and our mission to take this underestimated and underrated food mainstream. Co-Founders Leo and Aaron have a background in design and entomology respectively, and originally got together making insect recipe videos out of Leo’s parents garage.
Ethel Tambudzai, Co-Founder of Sonaaar.
A platform connecting black communities through culture. At Sonaaar, we believe in the collective wealth of the diaspora to self sustain through information sharing, democratising social capital and increasing access to opportunities. Also reading MSc Corp Gov at Birkbeck.
Patricia Cervantes, Co-Founder & COO of Vibio.
Vibio makes app enabled sex toys that combine innovative design and tech to encourage users to explore their sexuality. Founders Alma and Patricia met in pre-school and have been friends ever since, and they created Vibio to destigmatise pleasure and present it in a natural and fun way. Their first product, Ella, is a wearable vibrator for women designed for external stimulation.
Nicki Hoyne, Founder of My Shining Armour.
My Shining Armour is an award winning online accessories and gifting store. My Shining Armour has its own product lines as well as stocking brands like Kate Spade, Rifle Paper Co. and ban.do. My Shining Armour has shipped to over 40 countries worldwide and appeared in Vogue, Cosmopolitan and Grazia. Nicki is a TedxTalk Speaker & Host of The Hero Podcast a top 10 Irish business podcast which shares career stories of insight and inspiration.
This event is hosted by Enterprise Pathways at Birkbeck Futures, and is only for Birkbeck students, staff and graduates.
Contact name: Lucy Robinson
Contact phone: 020 3926 3336
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