Business Without Bullsh-t

Kicking off 2023 with a very special chat with Martin Wolf CBE, Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times.

Martin has received honorary doctorates from six universities, including the London School of Economics and was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 for services to financial journalism. Martin's also won a raft of awards including the 2019 Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award and was also a member of the UK’s Independent Commission on Banking in 2010-11.

Our 2-part chat with Martin covers a range of topics including discussions about the UK's economic strength and global position - past, present and future, and pose questions like:

Which direction should the UK go in to re-build its industries and innovate?

Will the UK government come up with a realistic, practical and feasible plan to do so?

Should the UK become decentralised and split up into smaller states?

Buckle up and press play.

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Meet Phil Ives, Business Development Partner at BEAN Partners, a corporate finance and business intelligence advisory firm that provides the middle market with a differentiated service offering intelligence-led strategy to support growth, fund raising, and both 'buy and sell' side M&A.

For the past decade, Phil has travelled the globe as an award-winning speaker, including for Vistage (the world’s largest peer-to-peer learning platform for owners) and has been a strategic advisor to CEOs of high growth private companies looking to scale, fund and sell. He's also scaled two of his own businesses with major sales teams globally, as part of a leading data analytics company, GlobalData plc. 

Having referred clients to BEAN Partners throughout, Phil eventually joined forces with them on the basis that they truly understand business ‘in 3D’. Together, BEAN Partners bring an agile, values-driven focus on delivering the right outcomes — rather than just getting deals done — through solutions that blend intelligence, human insight and experience with unique creativity.

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Meet Phil Ives, Business Development Partner at BEAN Partners, a corporate finance and business intelligence advisory firm that provides the middle market with a differentiated service offering intelligence-led strategy to support growth, fund raising, and both 'buy and sell' side M&A.

For the past decade, Phil has travelled the globe as an award-winning speaker, including for Vistage (the world’s largest peer-to-peer learning platform for owners) and has been a strategic advisor to CEOs of high growth private companies looking to scale, fund and sell. He's also scaled two of his own businesses with major sales teams globally, as part of a leading data analytics company, GlobalData plc. 

Having referred clients to BEAN Partners throughout, Phil eventually joined forces with them on the basis that they truly understand business ‘in 3D’. Together, BEAN Partners bring an agile, values-driven focus on delivering the right outcomes — rather than just getting deals done — through solutions that blend intelligence, human insight and experience with unique creativity.

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This week's BWB Extra continues our conversation with Mallory Khalifa, Managing Director of Animated Storyboards a full-service Animatics company that specialising in high-quality storyboards, Animatics, Cinematics and Test Commercials. We get to know more about what makes Mallory tick, what drives her to be the business leader she is today, and we discuss the quirky differences between the Brits and the Yanks, for good and for bad.

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Meet Mallory Khalifa, Managing Director of Animated Storyboards (ASB) a full-service Animatics company that specializes in high-quality storyboards, Animatics, Cinematics, MoCap, Pre-Vis Test Commercials

Mallory started her career in America within the advertising sector working for the prestigious ad agency, Leo Burnett in Chicago where she decided to transition to the production side of things and moved to New York to join ASB.

Mallory has contributed to the global expansion of ASB through setting up the London operation, growing the Bangkok production team and managing the global new business as Managing Director. Mallory also is an avid interior design buff and in her spare time does development work with properties around the UK.

Our chat with Mallory unpacks exactly what ASB does and the role it plays in the advertising industry, plus we get to hear about Mallory's business practices, recruitment and management styles, and her advice for overseas businesses looking to set up in the UK.

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This week's BWB Extra continues our conversation with David Spickett, Founder of The Car Crowd - the UK's first fractional ownership platform dedicated to passion assets with the aim of democratising investment, starting with classic cars.

We get to know more about what makes David tick, how he came to be doing what he does, the next top 3 cars he has his investment eye on and discuss what the future holds for The CarCrowd, plus more as usual.

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Meet David Spickett, Founder of TheCarCrowd - the UK's first fractional ownership platform dedicated to passion assets with the aim of democratising investment .... starting with classic cars.

Initially based in financial services and consultancy, most recently as the managing director of a UK Fintech business lending company​ ​Liberis​, ​David formed TheCarCrowd in 2019 with a vision to democratise the strongest performing​ ​investment classes and allow passionate people a way of joining together to own and benefit​ ​from the assets they love.

With a growing investment community in the heart of the East Midlands, investors can come​ ​together at events and community dinners to share their passions, and investment stories​ ​together.

“We wanted to disrupt traditional investments and make the items that have​ ​been traditionally reserved for the rich available to a wider audience.​ ​Enabling petrol heads and savvy investors a chance to come together and​ ​benefit from investing in the assets of their dreams.”

Strap in, press play and hold on to your seatbelt!

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This week's BWB Extra continues our conversation with Lewis Maleh, Founder & CEO of Bentley Lewis, an award winning global boutique executive search firm where we get to know more about what makes him tick and how he came to be one the leading global minds on what's next in the workplace, how hiring and attracting talent is evolving and what people are really looking for from work.

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Meet Lewis Maleh, Founder & CEO of Bentley Lewis, an award winning global boutique executive search firm with presence in London New York, Miami, Berlin, Lithuania and India.

Lewis is one the leading global minds on what's next in the workplace, how hiring and attracting talent is evolving and what people are really looking for from work. He recognises trends early and helps others understand what they mean for recruiting talent and building a career.

Lewis is also a podcaster and has contributed to various publications including Forbes and the Financial Times.

Sit back, press play and get to know more about the man with the golden touch in recruitment.

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This week's BWB Extra continues the conversation with Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin, co-authors of Chokepoint Capitalism. Cory is a renowned science fiction author, activist and journalist who’s written a range of highly acclaimed books, and Rebecca is a Professor of Law at Melbourne University and Director of Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia, and in this chat we get to know more about what makes them tick and how they came to be doing what they do today.

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Meet Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin. Cory is a renowned science fiction author, activist and journalist who’s written a range of highly acclaimed books, his most recent being Chokepoint Capitalism co-written with Rebecca Giblin, a Professor of Law at Melbourne University, an Art Future Fellow and Director of Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia.

If you've ever wanted to know how companies like Spotify and Audible make their money, and at whose cost, then today's your lucky day. Cory and Rebecca are field experts who are on a mission to debunk, expose and provoke reform in intellectual property and copyright control.

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