WAYNE HEMINGWAY MBE SPEAKER AT MADE FESTIVAL FOR ENTREPRENEURS SHEFFIELD

Wayne Hemingway MBE

Co-founder of Red or Dead and Hemingway Design

Wayne Hemingway MBE is an English fashion designer and co-founder of Red or Dead.

One day he decided to empty his wardrobe and that of his childhood sweetheart (now his wife Gerardine) and took the contents to sell on Camden Market. They did so well that by the end of the year they had 16 stalls at the market, with shipments of second-hand clothing and footwear brought in from all over the world.

By 1983, they had opened a shop in fashionable Kensington. That same year, the first Red or Dead collection was also created, inspired from Russian peasant clothing. It was well received and they obtained a huge order from US department store Macy’s.

After 21 consecutive seasons on the catwalk at London Fashion Week, Wayne and Gerardine sold Red or Dead in a multi-million cash sale.

In 1999, the pair they set up HemingwayDesign, which specialises in affordable and social design.

Wayne is the chairman of Building for Life, a Design Council CABE (Commission for Architecture and The Built Environment) funded organisation that promotes excellence in the quality of design of new housing. He is also a professor in The Built Environment Department of Northumbria University, a Doctor of Design at Wolverhampton, Lancaster and Stafford, a writer for architectural and housing publications and a TV design commentator.

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WILL BUTLER-ADAMS SPEAKER AT MADE FESTIVAL FOR ENTREPRENEURS SHEFFIELD

Will Butler-Adams

Managing director of Brompton Bicycle

Will Butler-Adams joined Brompton Bicycle in 2002 and, since taking over from the firm’s founder Andrew Ritchie as MD in 2008, has seen production rocket from 7,000 to 30,000 bikes per year.

The Brompton Bicycle company doesn’t bother much with marketing. It doesn’t need to. Its iconic folding bikes spread the word far more effectively than any carefully conceived advertising campaign. Vince Cable and Nick Clegg kicked off their recent manufacturing summit with a visit to Brompton’s West London factory, and Will himself has become a regular fixture on industry panels and think tanks aimed at stimulating interest in engineering.

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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.

 

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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.

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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.

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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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