WIB Sloan Speaker Series: Entrepreneurship
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Learn about the entrepreneurial paths that have led to successful business creation! Build your network across the programmes! Discuss your career plans, start-up ideas or passion with industry leaders that have a breath of experience – the Sloans!
Both women and men are invited to join us on Tuesday 5 May at 6:45pm in the Marquee to hear from three experienced entrepreneurs from the Sloan programme:
- Norah Prida Bay, CEO and Founder of Kitty10, a company which is aiming to disrupt the FinTech sector and take it by storm
- Mohammed Hamzianpour, a seasoned entrepreneur who has founded a number of businesses in property development
- Eduardo Jose Clavijo Lafont, who leads a technology consultancy which he grew from a solo startup to a business with multinational presence
With an average of 16 years of work experience, the Sloans are the most senior students on campus: expertise on campus that can be leveraged! The Women in Business Club is excited to partner with the Sloan programme to launch the Sloan Speaker Series. At each event, women and men from the Sloan programme will share their industry insights and provide an opportunity to ask questions about their perspectives on issues affecting women in the business world.
Additional information about the Sloan speakers:
Norah Prida Bay
Norah Prida Bay is the CEO and Founder of Kitty10, a company which is aiming to disrupt the FinTech sector and take it by storm.
Her professional career spans 11 years. During this time, she has worked at prime global locations such as; London, Moscow, Miami, and Mexico City. Norah has undertaken regional responsibilities, obtained a deep and extensive knowledge of emerging market dynamics and even ventured into the entrepreneurial world.
Most importantly to her however, she became a wife, a mother and subsequently a working mother of three. A firm believer that a woman can do and have it all, a successful career and an amazing family. She knows from her own experience that it is not easy to be a working mother. It is hard work but as with any difficult challenge, the rewards of complete self-fulfilment and strong self-confidence are greater than the effort. Norah is driven by her ultimate personal and career objective, which is to attain a highly influential position where she can inspire and contribute towards positive change for other women and working mothers who wish to pursue successful global careers to do so.
Norah was born in Mexico City, Mexico and grew up with a strong sense of community, being taught the values of hard work and dedication. It was a culmination of all of her life experiences, both good and bad, which lead her to the idea for Kitty10.
Kitty10 are currently developing a mobile app which not only facilitates collaborative savings, but enhances the process. Informal savings groups have been the only secure source of finance for millions of people globally. A traditional method which still takes place in todays society, the ROSCA is a way of accessing credit and improving savings discipline. Simplified a ROSCA (or a Kitty as we like to call them) is generally a group of friends or family who agree to meet for a defined period of time in order to borrow and save money together. It’s a crude for of peer-to-peer banking and lending.
We want to make banking personal again, there are no hidden fees, no elongated loan agreements with various clauses and charges. Simply a group of friends or family members, lending and saving money together. The UK has a fantastic sense of community, it always has we want to utilise that and build on it. We want people to help each other, to help themselves, without a reliance on high interest rate loans or payday lenders.
Mohammed Hamzianpour
Mo comes from a family of property developers and construction-related businesses with a presence in Europe and the Middle East. He is a seasoned entrepreneur, having co-founded his first business in 1998, which he grew before eventually selling his stake to the management team. Mo then moved on to the corporate world, managing a team responsible for real estate investments, construction and development for an international manufacturing, construction and trading business.
In 2000, while still working in his corporate role, he founded a property development company with operations in London and the Channel Islands. Since then, he has built the company into a successful property business with a focus on London-based luxury residential developments. Mo is responsible for the day-to-day commercial and operational management of Ludstone, alongside strategy, deal sourcing and structuring, fundraising and portfolio management.
Mo is a Sloan Fellow, a Fellow of The Property Consultants Society, a Fellow of The RSA and a Founder Freeman of the Guild of Entrepreneurs (City of London).
Eduardo Jose Clavijo Lafont
Founder of an IT consulting company for manufacturing industry and 3D printing technology supplier. Grew the organisation from a solo start-up to a business spread across two continents. Built and led a multi-cultural team across three countries. Strong leader skilled at setting and achieving goals and strategies in uncertain environments.
After 16 years running the company, successfully exit on 2014 in order to pursue new challenges and projects.
Eduardo has experience as a “Solo” entrepreneur, setting up business with partners, and as an investor in companies like www.urbanroosters.com, www.enoturis.com, www.paladea.me, www.bluibon.com and www.soloartesanas.es
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26 Sussex Place, Marylebone, London, NW1 4SA, United Kingdom