Founder, Entrepreneur 2 Entrepreneur Exchange.After a summer break, Taking Stock returns with my guest Shalini Khemka who runs her own community for entrepreneurs as well as sits on the Mayor of London's Business Advisory Board and is Non-Execu

Taking Stock | Interview with Tom Adeyoola

Jul 1st, 2020 36m 33s

CEO + Founder, Metail. I met Tom at an entrepreneur roundtable hosted at Runway East in Shoreditch London a few years ago. Turns out we have a fair bit in common given we went to the same school in London and also studied at Cambridge Universit

Taking Stock | Interview with The Rt Hon. the Baroness Susan Kramer

Jun 24th, 2020 35m 11s

Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Treasury and Economy). This week I caught up with Baroness Susan Kramer, a former banker and fund manager who successfully entered politics and served as a Minister under the Cameron/Clegg coalition governme

Taking Stock | Interview with Mandeep Singh

Jun 10th, 2020 31m 42s

I caught up with friend and fellow entrepreneur Mandeep Singh who co-founded Trouva – the leading marketplace for independent shops across Europe.Trouva’s mission is to help local communities and many family-backed shops who use the platform to

Taking Stock | Interview with Gary Turner

Jun 9th, 2020 46m 23s

In this week’s Taking Stock I have a wide-ranging chat with Gary Turner, co-founder and MD of Xero UK – one of the leading cloud-based accountancy platforms for small businesses. Under Gary’s watch the company has scaled from 0 to over 600,000

Taking Stock | Interview with Matt Robinson

May 27th, 2020 34m 18s

In this week’s Taking Stock I talk to friend and serial entrepreneur Matt Robinson, co-founder at GoCardless and now running the proptech company Nested. We talk about the state of the UK real estate market during and after the COVID lockdown,

Taking Stock | Interview with William Knowles-Mofford

May 14th, 2020 30m 30s

It’s not hard to attract a hip crowd when you run a cocktail bar in one of London’s party hot-spots, but what happens when those crowds are ordered to stay at home?In this week’s Taking Stock vodcast, I spoke to William Knowles-Mofford, Founder

Taking Stock | Interview with Melanie Goldsmith

May 7th, 2020 27m 16s

Scaling a confectionery business from a single stall at a local food market to cracking the American market is no easy feat.In this week’s Taking Stock vodcast, I chatted with Melanie Goldsmith, CEO of Smith & Sinclair and POLLEN, about her jou

Taking Stock | Interview with Geoffrey de Mowbray

Apr 30th, 2020 27m 8s

Global trade and business are interconnected by a web of supply chains. These ensure factories in China and farmers in South America are able to get their orders and produce to markets around the world. What happens when a global pandemic shuts

Taking Stock | Interview with Emma Loisel

Apr 23rd, 2020 29m 41s

In an industry that’s centred around people coming together in public places, how does a premium commercial coffee supplier react when those public places are closed?For my inaugural Taking Stock vodcast, I chatted to Emma Loisel, Co-founder an

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