The Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship has teamed up with Start Up Grind, a networking event to support the Scottish entrepreneurial ecosystem, with monthly meetings taking place at Strathclyde Business School.
Each month a well-known entrepreneur will talk about their experiences. Already running in cities around the world, this is a new initiative to Glasgow. Danny Meaney was the latest entrepreneur to give a talk at the first event hosted by the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship on October 15. Danny is Managing Director of New Media Partners; founder of Dlab, co-founder of Insportive; and Chairman of four23. He was CEO in a ground-breaking online B2C download channel joint venture with Nokia.
The next event will feature John Anderson of the Hunter Centre, formerly chief executive at The Entrepreneurial Exchange, on November 19 at the Lord Hope building from 6-9pm.
John's entrepreneurial experience includes being a shareholding director of a young venture backed technology company engaged in the design, manufacture and distribution of laboratory equipment and co-founded a company that provided pre-hospital emergency care and healthcare industry training. As a CA in professional practice he worked with several of Scotland's most exciting growth companies including Atlantech Technologies, Award plc and Benedetti International after returning to Scotland from Chicago in 1989.
Now an experienced non-executive chairman and director in growing businesses, John is a Par Equity Advisory Panel Member and Chairman of Gabriel Investments angel syndicate. He is a regular commentator on issues facing emerging and high growth companies and has worked extensively with the leaders of growth companies, sharing experiences of the realities of scaling up.
John is a founding GlobalScot, a participant in REAP Scotland, a regular expert contributor to the Scottish Government’s National Economic Forum, chairman of the Informatics Ventures advisory board and sits on the Enterprise Research Centre advisory group.
He said, "The Hunter Centre and Strathclyde Business School is delighted to be acting as ‘host’ for the Start Up Grind. This is a very valuable venture allowing entrepreneurs to meet up, network, learn from others and get inspired. We look forward to seeing our relationship with Start Up Grind develop and, as well as the Hunter Centre hosting the events, I'm pleased to be invited to speak at the next meeting."
Start Up Grind also operates globally, hosting events in more than 100 cities and 42 countries featuring successful local founders, innovators, educators and investors who share personal stories and lessons learned on the road to building great companies
Website: www.startupgrind.com