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My Work Today

Startup Canada – Community Builder – (Launching in March 2012)

Startup Canada is a grassroots, entrepreneur-led, national non-profit that works to advance Canadian entrepreneurship to enhance the Canada’s competitiveness and prosperity. Working in partnership with entrepreneurs and the enterprise support community across sectors, industries, regions and generations, Startup Canada works to:

  • Support the development of a strong ecosystem for entrepreneurs in Canada;
  • Foster a more vibrant entrepreneurial culture; and,
  • Create a unified Canadian brand for entrepreneurs at home and abroad.
Stay tuned for further information:

NACUE – Founder and Trustee 

The National Association of College and University Entrepreneurs (NACUE) is a fast-paced, grassroots Charitable organisation that stimulates university enterprise by supporting, connecting and representing enterprise societies, enterprising students and student entrepreneurs in Universities across the UK. Founded in 2008 during a meeting of 12 leading enterprise society presidents, and launched in May 2009, NACUE now engages over 80 university enterprise societies across the UK, supports over 85 universities in stimulating student-led activity and represents the view of over 45,000 enterprising students to policy makers in all levels of government, industry and education. Visit www.nacue.com for more information.

iCUE – Co-Founder and Chair

The International Consortium of University Entrepreneurs (iCUE) was launched in May 2010 as an international organisation that has as its collective mission to: drive global youth entrepreneurship; connect and support the development of national youth enterprise organisations across the world; and, represent the views of young entrepreneurs to national and international policy leaders. Membership is composed of the leaders of national youth enterprise organisations from across the world, which must be membership-based and recognised as legitimate and official in their home countries. Founding members are NACUE (UK), Stardust (Denmark), FENA (Sweden), NACUE Barcelona (Spain), Sofia University Entrepreneurs (Bulgaria), with new members from the Netherlands, Germany, Ethiopia and Brazil having since joined the organisation. See www.icueonline.com for more information.
Engentia & Agawa, Team Member Engentia, based in the UK, provides enterprise training and consultancy for the further and higher education sectors. Visit www.engentia.comfor further information.Agawa, based in Canada, assists communities, organizations and institutions in their efforts to promote entrepreneurism as a way to build strong economies and create competitive advantage. Visit www.agawacorp.com for further information.

 

Roles, Affiliations and Memberships

NXD & Shareholder, The Bridge (London, UK)

Advisor, Robogals International- www.robogals.org

Entrepreneur in Residence at London Metropolitan Business School – www.londonmet.ac.uk/lmbs

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts – www.thersa.org

Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Enterprise & Entrepreneurship – www.ioee.co.uk

Advisory Board Member of Astia Europe – www.astia.org