directorBAR / venturing

Flotation / Debt Finance / Venture Capital / Strategic Partnering / Corporate Venturing / Investing Directors / Organic Growth: UK and Overseas...

...this event will introduce directors of successful SMEs - that are at a key point of growth and change - to peers, specialists and investors who have succeeded in these areas.

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PROFILED COMPANIES

Promoted to 7,000+ City, Investment and SME contacts. Available to meet at event + dinner. 1 minute profile presentation, video'd for internet audience (see videos from 4/10/11 directorBAR tech city event). Please see "Profile Package" above.

PANELLISTS

Thought leaders in the field of SME growth, innovation and investment (please see profiles below) - will speak for 5 minutes with their advice about venturing and feedback about the companies pitching:

• SHARE MATCHING. Paul Varcoe, Chief Executive, BritDAQ
• PRIVATE INVESTOR NETWORK. Oliver Woolley, Founder Director, Envestors

REGISTRATION

Please see above: £40 directors/investors; £60 advisers/others; Early booking reduction £10 price increases on 21st Nov @ 10.00 a.m.; + £10 on the door. NB:

• Only 1 adviser per company, except sponsors.
• Marketplace event - profiled companies presented @ 18.45.
• 90% networking: wine + nibbles @ the sponsored advice zones+ pay bar.
• DINNER menu - £30 advance, £35 @ event. Places ONLY available for directors, investors and sponsors.
• Registration (required): 10-50 word personal &/or company profile.
• Separate opportunity to advertise details anonymously, with counter-parties matched discreetly at this event &/or online.

PROFILED COMPANIES:

1 minute pitch, video'd for internet audience; available to meet at event + dinner. Please see "Profile Package" above.

• Aria Networks - leading provider of capacity management and planning software solutions for next-generation networks: Mobile and Converged, Fixed Line & Core, Access Networks. Aria Networks offers communication service providers operators a unique approach for planning, modelling and routing traffic for optimal cost and network efficiency.
• Citola provides: environmental products for organisations to offset their environmental/carbon liability; Resource Asset Management of forestry assets; Sustainable Forestry Products such as value-added timber products, sawlog, pole and fencing timber and biomass for energy production. See web site for Australian Carbon Farming Initiative & Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs).
• Major Events International (MEI) helps companies to capitalise on World Cup and Olympic bids, hosting and opportunities using a range of bespoke consultancy services and its Major Events Network with local partners. The Brazil 2014 World Cup and Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympics represent huge opportunities and MEI is  keen to work with new partners and customers in this marketplace.
• powerPerfector - fastest growing: private ‘green’ company in the UK (Virgin Fast Track 100); private company in the UK (2nd in PwC Profit Track 100); private company (10th in Sunday Times Fast Track 100). Works by improving electrical power quality and by supplying voltage at the most efficient level. Thousands of sites in the UK have installed Voltage Power Optimisation (VPO)®.
• Sentronex provides IT Support, Disaster Recovery, Financial IT Consultancy, Cloud Computing and Secure Hosting services to an impressive range of City-based clients, from Hedge Funds and Asset Managers to larger Brokers and Investment Banks. 35-45% growth over the last 3 years.
• Smart Currency Exchange helps clients to send and receive payments internationally, saving substantial amounts of money - especially compared to  banks – and helping to manage FX risk. Founded in 2004, Smart focuses on service and does not pay its traders commission. With a very solid balance sheet and no debt, it makes money by helping clients to save money. 

PANELLIST PROFILES

• SHARE MATCHING. Paul Varcoe, Chief Executive, BritDAQ – an online trading community for private companies and their investors. Co-Founder, EasyScreen. Ex-Non-Executive Chairman at Intelligent Risk. Ex-Army platoon commander and Mechanical Engineering graduate, Paul trained as an options trader, eventually heading up trading teams at Swiss Bank Corporation and Salomon Brothers in London. In 1998, after 11 years as an independent trader on the trading floor of LIFFE, he co-founded Easyscreen PLC, a trading software company, which he took from a start-up with 10 private shareholders to a full LSE listing and a market cap of more than £250m. After leaving EasyScreen, he increasingly became involved in funding start-up companies, as well as advising smaller companies who needed refinancing or reorganization. He also spent time as a proprietary trader at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, where he was involved in analysing smaller companies and their businesses. BritDAQ was formed in late 2009, by a small group of entrepreneurs that could see that the public stock markets were not helping smaller companies and their investors.
• PRIVATE INVESTOR NETWORK. Oliver Woolley, Founder Director, Envestors. After starting his own venture in the food industry – including a retail catering business in central London and organic sausage shops in the south-east of England, Oliver sold the business in 1997 and moved into early-stage investing. Oliver has invested in, and sits on the board of, several early-stage businesses. Oliver has a MBA from Imperial College, London, where he lectures occasionally in entrepreneurship. He is an Executive Director of the British Business Angels Association (BBAA). An award winning private investor network, Envestors has 22 family offices looking to invest £1 - 10m into high-growth companies - typically in the £1 - 10m turnover range - and 750 private investors who invest under the EIS scheme. Envestors has offices in London, Manchester, Jersey and Dubai and in 2011/12 (as well as in 2009/10) won “Private Investor Network of the Year” at Investor Allstars. Envestors is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Braveheart Investment Group plc (AIM: BRH) and is sponsored by Coutts & Co, RSM Tenon and Nabarro.

VENUE: Corney & Barrow Paternoster - Lounge.
Situated in the newly developed Paternoster Square and in the shadow of St.Paul’s Cathedral, this sleek and contemporary Corney & Barrow combines elements of the West End bar scene with a classic City setting. "...slick, glossy interior, reasonably priced, hearty food and a lengthy wine list..." Square Meal Guide

Corney & Barrow dinner menu directorBAR 17 January 2012

Homemade Steak, Guinness and Chestnut Mushroom Pie. With Maris Piper mash and a vintage red wine gravy.

Country Cumberland Sausages. Homemade country Cumberland sausages, creamy mashed potatoes and a sage-infused red wine gravy.

Fresh Tuna Nicoise Salad. Grilled tuna steak with a classic Niçoise salad and elegant French mustard dressing.

Wild Mushroom Ravioli (v). Freshly milled, hand finished pasta with pinach & hazelnut pesto, wild mushrooms and butternut squash.

Half a Roast Chicken. Marinated with lemon thyme and seasoned with smoked sea salt, olive oil and a bright lemon balm jus. *Served with your choice of chunky chips, herbed potatoes or a mixed leaf salad.

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Cherry and Amaretto Brownie

Homemade Norfolk Treacle Tart

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tea or coffee and a glass of wine.