GOOD DEALS

the first national social investment conference

6 May 2008

LSO St Lukes, 161 Old Street, London EC1V 9NG

 

 

 

Speakers

 

Sir Tom Hunter - Chairman - The Hunter Foundation

 

Sir Tom Hunter founded West Coast Capital (West Coast), the private equity partnership, in March 2001 and subsequently has concluded in excess of £4 billion of West Coast led deals.

 

Principally investing in retail, property and leisure the private equity firm takes a proactive role in the identification, investment and management of its target deals, classically known as adventure capitalism. As a guiding principal West Coast seeks to target investment in businesses with strong management teams capable of major and sustainable growth.

 

Prior to establishing West Coast, Tom built Sports Division from nothing into one of the UK s premier sports retailers over an eighteen-year period employing 7500 people across over 250 stores. He sold the business in 1998 for £90 million; his stake in the business was valued at £260 million.

 

Tom is an ardent supporter of fellow entrepreneurs and passionate about making Scotland a more enterprising nation. He continues to devote considerable time, money and energy in his efforts to work with educational establishments and fellow entrepreneurs to further this cause. He is past Chairman of the Entrepreneurial Exchange and personally bequested £5m to support the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at Strathclyde University.

 

Tom and his wife Marion established The Hunter Foundation (THF) in 1998, a venture philanthropy targeting investment in education and enterprise across Scotland. Since inception it has invested, or committed to invest in excess of £35m in national programmes aimed at engendering a more enterprising spirit within Scotland, particularly within its young people. In turn THF is investing in Africa to support the development of self-sustaining communities with education a key pillar of these investments.

 

Liam Black - Social Enterprise Ambassador

 

Liam Black is one of the UK’s best known social entrepreneurs, having led some of the country’s most successful social enterprises, most recently Fifteen which, with Jamie Oliver, he grew into a global brand with businesses in Europe and Australia. One of the UK Government’s Social Enterprise Ambassadors, he is author of There’s No Business Like Social Business and a sought after speaker on leadership, enterprise and social change. Most recently Liam has co—founded Wavelength100, which will provide a forum for the world’s most outstanding private sector businesses and most successful, high impact social entrepreneurs to connect with, learn from and inspire one another. www.thesamewavelength.com

 

Phil Hope MP - Minister for the Third Sector

Phil Hope was elected Member of Parliament for Corby and East Northamptonshire in 1997 and was appointed Minister for the Third Sector in June 2007. He was also appointed as Minister for the East Midlands in January 2008.

 

Previous to this, he was the Minister for Skills at the Department for Education and Skills from May 2005-June 2007. He served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister and to Nick Raynsford as Minister of State for Housing and Planning. Phil was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) in June 2003 with responsibility for building regulations, regulatory and public sector reform, e-local government, the Fire Service College and the Local Government Pension Scheme. At ODPM he also supported the Minister for Local Government, regional governance and fire, Nick Raynsford.

 

Steve Pateman - Chief Executive, UK Business Banking, RBS Group

 

Steve Pateman is Chief Executive, UK Business Banking, at RBS Group. Steve joined NatWest in 1980 and has spent over 15 years in a variety of corporate banking and finance roles including a five-year spell within the investment banking business of NatWest Markets. Prior to joining Business Banking, Steve managed Commercial Banking and the mid-market corporate banking business in the UK, including RBSI in the Channel Islands.

Steve is 44 and lives in West Wickham, Kent. He has four daughters and one son and his interests include cricket and football - an avid Everton supporter, he also enjoys music and theatre.

 

Malcolm Hayday - Chief Executive, Charity Bank

 

Malcolm Hayday is CEO of Charity Bank. He was previously the Director of Community Finance at Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) and Director of CAF’s social investment loan fund, Investors in Society.’Ä®’Ä®He is a founding Director of the Community Development Finance Association. He is also a Trustee of The Big Issue Foundation. He was a Board Member of INAISE, the International Association of Investors in the Social Economy, a global network of social investment institutions, having been its President, 1997-2001. ’Ä®

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Malcolm had more than 20 years experience in business finance before joining the charity sector in 1993. After university he assumed progressively senior positions with City financial institutions. From 1987 he concentrated on finance for small and medium sized businesses. He joined CAF in 1993 to establish the loans service for charities. ’Ä®’Ä®

Malcolm has written a number of papers on the social economy and social investment. He was a member of the advisory group to the Small is Bankable report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (1998); the advisory group to the Development Trusts Association on asset based development (1998-9); the SEEDA social capital fund study group (2000); and the working group on social investment in Scotland, which led to the development of SIS. ’Ä®’Ä®

Malcolm was also a member of the Arts Council of England national steering group on new financial instruments, an expert member of the business advisory committee of the NGO planning for sustainability project in Central Europe, and is on the advisory group for NCVO’s sustainable funding project. He is a member of an advisory group of foundations to the World Economic Forum.

 

Duncan Sloan, Head of Community Banking, RBS Group

 

Duncan Sloan is Head of Community Banking, Royal Bank of Scotland & NatWest. Duncan joined the Royal Bank in 1972 and has worked in a variety of roles in various locations throughout Scotland. After a period as Senior Corporate Manager at Greenock in 1991, Duncan took up the role of Director, Commercial Banking for South West Scotland in 2002. In 2003, he took up the newly created position of Director, Community Finance and Social Enterprise with responsibility for developing the Bank’s work and support for the sector throughout Scotland. He was appointed Head of Community Banking for RBS Group on 1st April 2007. Duncan is a Director of the Development Trusts Association Scotland and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland.

 

 

Amanda Jones and James Brown - Red Button Design

 

Since appearing on the latest series of BBC 2's "The Dragons' Den" where the duo netted the best deal ever seen on the programme all 5 “Dragons” investing for the original equity offered, Red Button Design have won Oxford University’s 21st Century Challenge. The judges awarded an initial prize of £10,000 cash to the social entrepreneurs who then went on to scoop a further £35,000 by winning the Global Challenge Award. Most recently however James and Amanda have reached the final 10 entries in HSBC’s Unipreneurs Competition. The winners of the £20,000 prize will be announced in late April.

 

Red Button Design is a speculative design company with a focus on products with a ‘social conscience’. The core beliefs of the design house are summed up in the following statement:

 

“We aspire to develop a range of products about which we can be proud. Products which address real human needs and not just human desire. Products which are simple in their design and conception but have consequences on a global scale. We aspire to drive change.”

 

Red Button Design was founded by three individuals from design engineering, marketing/sales and humanitarian backgrounds with the agreement to create a design house with a social conscience, focusing on what the world ‘needed’ and not what it ‘wanted’.

Jonathan Lewis - CEO - Adventure Capital Fund

Jonathan Lewis has a strong track record in running companies. He has shown that he can grow them quickly and fix them when they are broken.

After a brief period in advertising, Jonathan has worked as Head of Channel Strategy at MTV Europe (1996-1998), was Co Founder and Director of Griffin Lewis Ltd a successful media consultancy (1998-2000), before he went on to join Granada Media as Director of Channel Strategy (2000).

In 2004, he became Director of ITV Digital Channels. When he started, ITV had a single digital channel - ITV2, which had lost many millions. When he left, ITV had 7 highly profitable digital channels; ITV2 by that stage being the biggest and most profitable non terrestrial channel in the UK.

Jonathan has recently switched from the media into the third sector becoming chief executive of the Adventure Capital Fund. ACF is developed by the community sector and funded by government.

The ACF is an ambitious investment fund that aims to support and grow community enterprise. With the appointment of Jonathan, the ACF aims to become the most effective, most innovative and most expert community support and investment company in the country.

Jonathan Bland - CEO - Social Enterprise Coalition

Jonathan Bland is the chief executive of the Social Enterprise Coalition, the UK's national body for social enterprise. The Coalition influences national policy, showcases the benefits of social enterprise, supports its members and promotes best practice.

Jonathan has over 20 years experience working in this field and pioneered the introduction of social enterprise into the Government policy landscape.

He continues to work closely with ministers, senior officials and politicians across the spectrum, ensuring the voice of social enterprise is heard across the country.
Before joining the Coalition he was the Director of Social Enterprise London, and previously worked supporting co-operatives in Spain.

 

 

Adrian Ewer - Chief Executive - John Laing plc

 

After qualifying as a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Adrian pursued his finance career with key posts in Chloride Group plc, Akai (UK) Ltd, the Ratcliffe Group Ltd, and as Group Treasurer for Lilley plc prior to joining John Laing plc in 1991. Adrian was appointed the Group’s Deputy Finance Director in March 1995 and Group Finance Director in June 1999, and became Chief Executive on 1 June 2006.

Adrian was instrumental in shaping and securing a future for the plc following the difficult divestment of the construction division in 2001. Following a decision by the new plc Board early in 2002, Adrian led the successful divestment of the Group’s house-building businesses. Adrian is responsible for CSR issues relating to Human Rights and employee issues.

Bernie Morgan - Chief Executive - cdfa

In April 2003, Bernie Morgan became the cdfa's first Chief Executive.

Since her appointment, Bernie has grown the cdfa's membership, income and staff and overseen a premises move. She has, with the Board, launched a three-year strategic plan which prioritises the further increase in membership, building the capacity of the sector and raising its profile.

Bernie previously worked for the Association of Charitable Foundations where she was acting chief executive.

Nigel Kershaw - Chief Executive - Big Issue Invest

Nigel is CEO of Big Issue Invest and Chairman of The Big Issue and advocate of social enterprises that offer business and financial solutions to social problems.

Big Issue Invest is a specialised provider of finance to social enterprises, and is pioneering new and transformative ways of creating financial inclusion and opportunity.

In July 2007 he was nominated as Director of the Month by the Institute of Directors. Nigel also serves on the board of the Social Enterprise Coalition and has been appointed as one of the Cabinet Office’s Social Enterprise Ambassadors.

 

Sarah Forster - Director of Development - Big Issue Invest

Sarah is Director of Development for Big Issue Invest and a Founding Director of Geoeconomics, a research and strategy consultancy.

Previously, Sarah worked for the World Bank and the New Economics Foundation. Sarah has 15 years of international development and development finance experience, with a focus on microfinance and social investment.

Her interest lies in the role of social enterprise in market transformation.

 

Jonathan Kestenbaum - CEO - NESTA

Rowena Young - Program Director Social Innovation and Finance - NESTA

Rowena Young is the Programme Director of Social Innovation and Finance at NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts), a Fellow of the Skoll Centre and was the founding Director of the Skoll Centre, overseeing its development from 2004 to 2007.

At NESTA, Rowena oversees the creation of challenges designed to test and understand the systems of innovation that contribute to the resolution of social problems.

Before joining the Saïd Business School, Rowena was Chief Executive of the School for Social Entrepreneurs.

Rowena has also worked through a number of voluntary positions. As vice-chair of governors, she was part of a strategic team which turned around the worst failing school in the country. She has been a board member of Children’s Express and the Social Enterprise Coalition, an advisor to MySociety and screener for the Schwab Foundation, a commissioner on the Joseph Rowntree Inquiry on drug-testing and a judge for the Guardian’s Public Service Awards, the DTI’s Enterprising Solutions, New Statesman’s Upstart and Arts and Business awards.

 

Antony Ross - Director - Bridges Ventures

 

Antony Ross has 14 years of private equity investment, in a wide range of businesses from early stage development opportunities to later stage management buy outs. He led 3i’s healthcare team from 2000 to 2001 supporting medical technology and biotechnology businesses across Europe. Previously he managed 3i’s Newcastle and Cambridge offices.

PLUS MANY MORE OF THE SECTOR’S BIGGEST NAMES TO BE CONFIRMED.