Business Without Bullsh-t

Our guest this week is Danny Lopez, CEO of award-winning cyber security firm Glasswall which delivers unique protection against sophisticated threats through its ground- breaking technology.

Danny has also enjoyed a successful career in banking, marketing and diplomacy which has included being British Consul General to New York, Director General for Trade and Investment across North America, CEO of London & Partners and Managing Director for marketing at the UK government’s Department for International Trade.

And to top it off, Danny also spent 10 years at Barclays holding senior banking roles in London, New York, Miami and Mumbai.

True elite in the hot seat this week!

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Welcome to this week's episode of BWB Extra where we continue our conversation with Tanya Kolding Stenz, Director of Strategy & Development at the European Sperm Bank.

Tanya opens up to give us the full download on the inner workings of the Sperm Donor trade, an industry riddled with myths, assumptions and confusion. From discussing the origins of the European Sperm bank to the reality of recruiting donors and even touching on that very difficult subject of discussing a donor child's biological background with them.. we attempt to unravel it all.

Welcome to The Donor Appeal.

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Our guest this week is Tanya Kolding Stenz , Director of Strategy and Development at the European Sperm Bank, one of the leading sperm banks in the world.

Established in 2004 with a load of entrepreneurial spirit and a strong focus on daily activities, ESB was bought by AXCEL, a private equity firm, in 2019 to facilitate further global growth and now employs 130 people across 8 locations in 4 countries.

Tanya is a self-confessed innovative business developer with a strong mind for efficiency who likes to take a holistic perspective on business. In other words, she's a person who makes sure the whole job gets done, and gets done properly!

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Welcome to part 2 our TechWeek Special with our good friends at London & Partners.

Last week we teleported you on our Eurostar carriage from London to Paris where we held what can only be described as the world's fastest networking event for Tech startups .. on a train .. at 180 miles per hour .. en route to the VivaTech Conference. And this week we're taking you to the heart of the conference where we rocked up, mic'd up and got chatting to some of the folk at the conference, and then had a very swanky London & Partners dinner where the drinks flowed and so did our ramblings with many other fascinating people in Tech.

Right then, let's go to Paris!

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Hello and welcome to this week's episode of BWB Extra where we continue our conversation with David B Horne, Founder of Funding Focus.

David opens up to tell us about the unfair reality he's discovered in venture capital funding between genders and ethnicities, an inequality so unjustifiably skewed towards white middle-class men that he felt compelled enough to do something about it which gave birth to Funding Focus, David's now life-long mission to create a level playing field for everyone in VC funding regardless of their gender or ethnicity.

Welcome to The Equality Scandal.

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Our guest this week is David B Horne, the Founder of Funding Focus, an educational business which aims to raise awareness and give support to women and racial minorities who face a very uneven playing field when trying to raise capital for their businesses.

David trained as a Chartered Accountant with PWC and went on to be CFO of two companies listed on London’s Alternative Investment Market where he raised more than £100,000,000 in funding, and has transacted more than 20 companies.

David is also the author of “Add Then Multiply – How Small Businesses Can Think Like Big Businesses And Achieve Exponential Growth” which won the “Business Self-Development” category at the Business Book Awards 2020.

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In light of TechWeek, we had the pleasure of partnering with our good friends at London & Partners to part take in what can only be described as the world's fastest networking event - we took over a whole Eurostar carriage on a trip from London to Paris en route to the VIVaTech Conference and invited some of the most exciting and innovative Tech startups to join us and network, kind of like Speed Dating for businesses .. on a train .. at 180 miles per hour.

It was fast, it was fun and we thought "why not set up a podcast studio on the train for some quick fire Business vs. Bullshit quiz action " .. welcome to our TechWeek Special!

A big thankyou to all of our brilliant guests (in order):

Laura Citron - CEO - London & Partners

Andrew Tibbets - Head of Innovation - London & Partners

Melina Jacovou - CEO - Propel

Frederic Bruneau - CEO and Founder - Foxy Nerds

Vipul Lakhani - COO - Soft Tools

Arun Anand - Founder & CEO - Electric Miles

Chloe Sabani - Head Of Sales UK & Ireland - B4Finance

Quentin Debavela - General Manager Northern Europe - Malt

Matt Bunn - Co-Founder / MD - Capita Scaling Partner

Charles Sekwalor - CEO & Founder - MoveMeBack

Cynthia Vega - Programme Lead - Kantar

Kirsty Jarvis - Founder & CEO - Luminous PR

Ashley Monogal - Mott McDonald

Dami Hastrup - CEO - Moonhub

Eddy Herman - Co-Founder & CTO - Slip

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Welcome to this week's BWB Extra where we continue our conversation with Sophie Epstone, Founder & CEO of Trekstock.

We discuss Trekstock's journey so far with providing support for young adult cancer patients and her learnings about the reality for people who suffer from the disease both physically and mentally. Born out of the realisation that there was a huge lack in support services for young adult cancer patients after a family friend was diagnosed with the disease, Sophie has been on a mission ever since to make sure young patients get the right type of help they need.

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Our guest this week is Sophie Epstone, Founder & CEO of Trekstock, the only UK charity that specifically focuses on supporting young adults through cancer.

Sophie became aware of a huge gap in tailored support services for cancer patients in their 20s or 30s after a family friend had treatment for lymphoma and found himself in hospital surrounded by people much older than him whose needs were the opposite to his. There was no age-appropriate support available and Sophie wanted to do something about it, and so Trekstock was born.

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Welcome to this week's episode of BWB Extra where we continue our conversation with Dominick Peasley, CEO at Sprk Capital.

We take a deeper look at how Sprk's smart model actually works with lending against R&D claims compared to bank's conventional models and the benefits Sprk can provide to a business's cashflow and overall performance. We also get an insight into how Dom likes to keep business operations running successfully plus his thoughts on the future of the workplace culture.

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Joining us this week is Dominick Peasley, CEO of Sprk Capital, an online lender to businesses engaged in Research and Development.

Before joining Sprk, Dominik was responsible for all lending capital at Funding Circle and raised over a whopping £6bn to support SMEs in the UK, and also co-founded Capital-B, a FinTech advisory and capital placement agency focused on developing lending businesses.

Dominik has also worked for Goldman Sachs where he was Head of UK Distribution for its asset management business. A sparkling CV to say the least!

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