Global Chamber London Summer Business Series on Scaling Up Growth

The third part of the 4 part Global Chamber London Summer Business Series was held and the recording is available at the link below.

This time the topic covered scale-up challenges and included tips to accelerate growth.

Watch the globinar HERE.

The main speaker was John Courtney, CEO & Founder of Boardroom Advisors.

John's partner on this globinar was Katie Keith, Executive Director of Global Chamber® London.

This summer there were other topics related to growth. Check out the recording on building advisory boards, again with John sharing his deep knowledge of the topic HERE. Thank you, John!

Speaker Background

John Courtney is highly ranked in the Top 100 UK Entrepreneurs list by City AM and is winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award from techSPARK.

He is Founder and CEO of BoardroomAdvisors.co which has 100 senior people as part-time Executive Directors (finance, marketing, sales, operations, IT even managing) plus NEDs/Chairs which they provide to scale-ups and growing family businesses in the UK, Europe and India and have plans to expand to the USA and the rest of the world. John has been a Board Director himself for over 40 years and first started placing Non-Executive Directors over 25 years ago. John founded and ran six of his own businesses including a Management Consultancy for 10 years, a Corporate Finance offering for 10 years and a mid-sized Digital Agency for another 10 years.

He is also a very experienced business Mentor, with Microsoft Ventures then Microsoft Accelerator (now Microsoft Scale-Up), Pitch@Palace, SETsquared (scale-ups spinning out of the Universities of Bristol, Bath, Exeter, Surrey and Southampton) and Entrepreneurial Spark (now NatWest Accelerator). He is also on the Advisory Board for the Oracle Start-up Cloud Accelerator (OSCA). Having trained as a Strategy Consultant, John has run strategy training in the UK, Holland and West Indies and advised over 100 scale-ups, family businesses and SME’s in strategy. He has also been conference speaker at Tech For Britain, Digital Marketing, LikeMinds for Entrepreneurs and others. John is Chairman, NED or Board Advisor to several scale-up and SME businesses in both London and Bristol.

John is a lifelong cricket lover, has captained Gloucestershire Seniors and is a proud Ashes winner with the full England Seniors side. He has recently been Chairman of The Lord’s Taverners (West), a national charity focused on helping disabled and disadvantaged children through sport.

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