Events

The Winning Pitch High Growth Foundation today announced the speaker line up for the high profile WoW event, taking place at the Imperial War Museum North, Trafford Park, Manchester on Wednesday, November 30 - 5.30 pm - 7.30pm.

Keynote speakers at the event will include Alexis Giles, Principal, New Business Development, Google Inc.

Alexis is part of an elite special deal making team at Google that incubates and launches new products.  She joined Google in 2005 as a lawyer in London, played an early role in developing partnerships for Google Maps and Google Earth, and following Google's acquisition of YouTube in 2006, she led the YouTube commercial legal team for 4 years where she focused on closing major broadcast and music deals.

In 2010, Alexis moved to San Francisco to work for the New Business Development team, developing strategic relationships for Google and incubating new Google products and services, including outreach and partnerships with the entrepreneurial and startup community.

Prior to Google, Alexis worked on the legal team at AOL in the UK where she developed and launched AOL Talk; and before that at Taylor Wessing, a law firm, in London advising startups and tech businesses.

 
Alexis holds various postgraduate qualifications in Computer, Internet and Copyright law, and a Bachelor of Laws degree from Newcastle University.  She has worked, lived and travelled in various countries across the world: in a mangrove swamp in Nigeria, in a ski resort in France, near a bullring in Spain, Luxembourg, London, and now San Francisco.  She likes to DJ, surf and snowboard and continues to seek out people, places and things that inspire her.

and Deepak Jayaraman,
Head of Goldman Sachs' Office of Corporate Engagement (OCE)
for Europe, Middle East and Africa

Deepak serves as head of Goldman Sachs' Office of Corporate Engagement (OCE) for Europe, Middle East and Africa and joined the firm as Executive Director in 2010.   The OCE works to co-ordinate the firm's global social investing efforts, including its signature 10,000 Small Businesses and 10,000 Women programmes, each multi year initiatives to offer business and management education to small business leaders around the world.

Previously, Deepak served as (i) Vice President of the India focused SME Enterprise Fund of a major Singapore based private investment firm, (ii) an investment banker at J.P. Morgan and (iii) a private equity and M&A lawyer at the law firm of Mintz Levin in Boston.  Deepak holds dual MBAs from the Columbia and London Business Schools and a Juris Doctorate from the George Washington University Law School in Washington DC.

The WOW event is taking place on Wednesday 30th November at the Imperial War Museum North, it will encourage people to look at their organisations in a totally different way.  Our speakers will share their philosophy of doing business, including building successful companies in the entrepreneurial capital of the world - Silicon Valley. This event will really challenge people to think:

• Could I be growing faster?
• Have I created a culture where innovation and creativity are encouraged?
• How do I create a more engaging customer experience?
• Could I build greater value in my business?
• How do I become a more effective leader?
• Can thinking global foster new business opportunities?
• What can I learn from the global successes of Silicon Valley?
For times, booking information and event agenda visit the website. http://www.highgrowthfoundation.co.uk/?p=720

Event Contacts:
Carla Moores - 0161 918 6785, c.moores@winning-pitch.co.uk
Vikki Greenhalgh - 0161 918 6785, v.greenhalgh@winning-pitch.co.uk      

 
      
About the High Growth Foundation
The Winning Pitch team has over the past ten years studied the behaviours and strategies of high performing businesses and entrepreneurs. We have worked with some 3,000 gazelle businesses and conducted an in depth evaluation of the fastest growing businesses in the UK, those that you would typically find in the Sunday Times Fast Track 100.

The High Growth Foundation is a legacy of these initiatives - it results from many entrepreneurs asking what next?  The Foundation is a content rich business support offering that brings likeminded people together to discuss, debate and learn about growing their business. More specifically it will:

• Facilitate conversations between entrepreneurs exploring growth solutions to the challenges they face as well as share experience on where to get best advice. These conversations will be stimulated by a wide range of networking events
• Showcase success and share the stories of those who have become regional hero's such as Peter Cowgill who grew a small business in Bury to one that is a FTSE 250 business with a turnover of £800M. Peter and others share their stories and act as a stimulant for others who want more from their life and their business.
• Provide practical resources that provide the answers to many business growth challenges. Our web site will be loaded with growth tools and techniques that help to get an entrepreneurs head in gear and deal with the nitty gritty of How to achieve accelerated performance. A wide range of masterclasses, innovative and inspirational events will bring the learning to life. Only experts with the licence to stand up and talk about their subject area will feature in this event programme.
Ambition lies at the heart of the High Growth Foundation - we are interested in having individuals part of this who want growth. We want the HGF to be the breeding ground for the next generation of supersonic businesses - the ones that deliver added value jobs, ones that reduce dependency on FDI. We want to grow our own talent.

Press Contact:
Heather Lomas
Operations Director
Winning Pitch
One Central Park
Northampton Road
Manchester
M40 5BP

Tel 0161 918 6785
Mob 07776 486142
h.lomas@winning-pitch.co.uk