I have been the CEO of bmedi@ for over 4 years now. bmedi@ is a network of over 600 “new media” businesses. Prior to being at bmedi@ I was General Manager of Remarc Professional Recruitment (setting this up from scratch) and prior to this I worked for Bradford & Bingley Plc for 21 years. My last role there being Group I.T. Training Manager responsible for the I.T. training of 8500 staff. In my spare time I like to play golf and am currently Captain of my local club. I also like watching football and spending time with my two young sons.

Roger has a BA(Hons)in Design. He has been in business for over 30 years, from architectural design, flooring sales and manufacturing, running a farm park, the family advertising agency, marketing, design and business consultancy. He works with companies both large and small and has played a role in building several successful multi-million pound companies in the southeast, winning European awards on the way. He has the experience of directly employing over seventy staff across various companies, as well as being responsible for client marketing department staff. Currently Managing Director of BIG Solutions Ltd and Education for Enterprise CIC. As Regional Chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) in Kent and Policy Chairman for SE England, he represents a business membership of 7000 companies in Kent and circa 40,000 across the southeast. He is a member of the SEERA Executive (Economic Partners) and Plenary groups, (has chaired the manufacturing select committee), Regional and Local Skills Boards, Kent Economic Board, Kent Partnership, Sector Skills Steering group. His education interests have led him into creating an initiative with a colleague – Small Business Ambassadors (www.smallbusinessambassadors.co.uk), managed by a social enterprise company Education for Enterprise CIC. He works with a wide range of …

I am a freelance consultant in social marketing. My main clients are currently WYSE International, an educational leadership charity associated with the United Nations, and Equator Media, a social marketing agency that works with organisations such as Channel 4 and Time Out. My background is in development, marketing and communications, in the particular context of social enterprise and youth development. I gained experience in Business Improvement with Oxfam International and worked on the PR for their ‘Oxfam Unwrapped’ scheme. I then worked for a youth development project in Calcutta, before completing a Masters degree in Development Management at the University of Westminster. For the past two years I have been working in the social enterprise sector as Director of Marketing and Communications for i-genius, an online community of social entrepreneurs with members in over 90 countries. I was involved from the start-up stage, and so climbed a steep learning curve which culminated in organising an international conference in Thailand for over one hundred social entrepreneurs. See www.equatormedia.co.uk and www.wyse-ngo.org

Sophie is the MD of the marketing company Active Information Ltd, the lead generation experts, as well as Chair of the Young Directors Forum for the Institute of Directors in the South West.

Jonathan English is co-founder of Skeleton Productions - a digital marketing company. He is a specialist at creating multimedia content and is currently producing online video clips for Sport England, Cambridge University, Nottingham University and a number of other corporate clients. Jonathan also developed the popular “The Big Uni Reunion”. It all started by bringing together Nottingham graduates who had moved to London – the events were designed to re-create nostalgic student nights out. Now they run regular reunions throughout the year in London for graduates from different universities across the UK.

Lisa Bell owns and manages a virtual administration agency called admin:solve providing a virtual administration solution for businesses irrespective of size, location or business sector. Her team of Virtual PA’s offer all the support a traditional PA or secretary can provide in house but without the hidden costs and obligations of employing additional staff www.adminsolve.co.uk In addition to this she runs two ladies business networking groups called Women on Top. One is based in Norwich and has been running since Jun 07 and the other launches in the Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft area in Jun 08. She is a firm believer in the benefits of networking and belongs to a number of local based groups herself www.women-on-top.com

Yasmin and her business partner Clare launced Go-Woman! just under two years in the West Midlands region after discovering that many women find traditional business support awe inspiring, overcomplicated and often dismissive of micro enterprises. Go-Woman! supports women in enterprise from start up through to business growth. Go-Woman! aims to centralise exisiting support services for women in business as well as profiling inspiring female entrepreneurs.

I am an entrepreneur and currently running a green technology business called www.golowtransport.com. I am also the CEO of European Young Professionals (www.eyplondon.org) which is a fantastic organisation here in London. I got involved in my first business when I was 19 and have been involved in a range of businesses and investment activities since then. For about ten years, I was in the Australian Army as well and saw service in East Timor and Iraq.

Having lived and worked in and around Warrington for most of my life and being involved heavily in networking for over 6 years, I found that there was a need for a local business networking event in the South Warrington area, with the support of Tom Rogers of the fabulous Tom at 101 restaurant in Stockton Heath, freshNetworking Warrington was born and already freshNetworking has business successes under its belt…… We are also launching freshnetworking ladies currently held at Tom at 101 restaurant in Stockton heath, Warrington and the launch of freshnetworking Chester on 16th April 2008, at Chester Race Course to be held in the Leverhulme suite overlooking the racecourse.

Senake Atureliya is a serial entrepreneur and innovator who founded his first business, a bespoke production line machinery business back in 1991.Today, Senake leads Buzz Technology Limited, a small consulting business specialising in business process innovation and ERP systems consultancy which he founded back in 1996. Drawing upon the experience and best practice knowledge gained on global implementations across a wide range of industries and from previous ventures, he has come up with the ‘Pie Finance’ solution to overcome the early (idea to investable) stage funding gap. A development on existing crowd sourcing and micro-finance applications, it employs a number of patent pending innovations to significantly mitigate innovator and investor risk. He remarked “I was so frustrated with being told by potential investors that they would be interested when I had a finished product, experienced management team and possible some customers, that I decided that there had to be a better way…”