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Sabrina Stocker has built several successful companies, mentored hundreds of entrepreneurs and recognised Final Five in the BBC One The Apprentice Show. She runs My Tennis Events, the largest tennis events company in the U.K. and is the co-founder of Shopping Slot, reaching nearly half a million customers in the first six weeks of launching. She has now launched her academy, a community for entrepreneurs and coaches to thrive.

Sabrina started her first business at the age of 14. She started selling Retro sweets in recycled jars and won several regional awards. Growing up, she was a keen tennis player, learning resilience, how to adapt and the art of strategy. While working full time as a tennis coach and starting her Tennis Company, she graduated with a Distinction in her MBA from Edinburgh Business School.

Sabrina is very hot in the political scene, campaigning in the previous election and advising in government projects to create strategies allowing young people to become more entrepreneurial.

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Eriona is Chartered Certified Accountant, has Masters’ degrees in both Accounting & Finance and International Banking & Finance Law and has recently completed a PGDip in Financial Strategy from the University of Oxford. Eriona is a member of the ACCA UK Practitioners Network Panel, ACCA SME Global Forum, has been involved with the International Federation of Accountants Chief Executives Forum. Eriona has also been nominated for three awards for the Women in Accounting and Finance Awards 2020. Having worked in practice since she was 13, then taking over Major's Accounts, Eriona has implemented a digitisation strategy within the business which has made a huge impact on the practice and clients’ businesses; turning an established traditional practice into a digital one utilising technology to bring the accountant-client relationship much closer. Major’s Accounts is now focusing on providing advisory services to its clients, including business finance. Major’s Accounts has been nominated for Independent Firm of the Year, Greater London by the British Accountancy Awards.

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Esther Stanhope is an International speaker, award winning author and personal impact expert. As a former “Live” BBC producer and now a successful business speaker, she can up your game in pitches, presentations and remote meetings instantly! She has a tip for any communication related question on; personal brand, pitching, speaking with gravitas, selling yourself or positioning yourself as the expert. From having a richer voice to knowing when to pause and where to look on a VC call, Esther can help! She uses her broadcasting background and simple audience engagement techniques in boardrooms all over the world (Deloitte, JPMorgan, Barclays). Now we’re WFH (working from home) Esther is the perfect solution to help you ace remote meetings on Zoom, Webex, Teams or any other VC platform.

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Sean Goldsmith is a Special Advisor to the Franchise Industry, a multi-brand Franchisor as well as a multi-unit, multi-brand franchisee with extensive international experience.

As the Special Advisor, Sean works with Franchise brands to redevelop their sales and operational structures so that they can be more profitable and better equipped to help their franchisees flourish. He is the co-founder of both the UK and South African Franchise Mastermind groups with over 350 franchise networks represented and has recently founded the Franchise Peer Board, a high-level professional development programme for Franchisors.

Sean is an ex-board Member of the British Franchise Association and a very vocal advocate of Ethical Franchising across the board.

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Johann Goree CMgr FCMI MIAB - A Chartered Manager and the Managing Director of JGBC who specialise in supporting small businesses as they start their business and undertake their journey utilising cloud software to give them live data to steer their businesses with.

Johann is a QuickBooks Advanced Certified Pro Adviser who with his team has deciphered the news and read gov.uk in order to translate it all into plain English and applying it to each client’s situation.

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Andrew Bloch is the founder of Frank, one of the UK's most successful and established creative PR agencies responsible for some of the nation's most famous campaigns. Clients include big name brands such as Aldi, Burger King, VW, KLM and Rimmel. Andrew recently stepped down from the day-to-day side of agency life to become a non-executive director at Frank. He plans to spend his spare time consulting agencies in the creative and marketing services space, as well as taking on a number of advisory and board level positions. Andrew has acted as official spokesperson for Lord Sugar since 2001, and has handled the PR for all The Apprentice winners since the show started in 2005. He is listed in the ‘PR Week Power Book'​ – 'The Definitive Guide To The Most Influential People in PR’ and is ranked as the most influential PR person on Twitter (@AndrewBloch). He is a founding mentor of the School of Communication Arts, a member of the Superbrands Council and a business mentor to The Princes Trust.

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Luke is a partner at Alliotts within their Outsourcing and Corporate Finance teams. Luke’s role in the Outsourcing team provides him with the skills and knowledge to leverage technology to improve the quality and access to financial information for clients and has given him a detailed understanding of how businesses of varying sizes operate and the issues that they experience during growth.

Luke particularly enjoys working with growing businesses and deals with a broad spectrum of technology companies and has experience in dealing with clients of a range of sizes, from large private equity firms to startups.

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Right at the forefront of the small business battle to overcome #Covid19, Merlie Calvert is the CEO and founder of Farillio, an award-winning, 3-year old tech startup in the business and legal services sector. Farillio’s mission, which has never been more real or relevant, is to ensure that no small business struggles or fails because they can’t easily access key information and core materials that they need to succeed.

With over 20 years’ experience of business and legal practice, spanning international law firms, and a wide range of legal and business roles in industries including pharmaceuticals, music, drinks and FMCG, publishing, diamonds and insurance, as well founder and director level roles in several businesses, Merlie’s earned the label ‘super-connector’ and won awards for the way that she advises.

Join Farillio and their #3hrPledge on https://get.farill.io/3hrpledge/Every person and/or business who pledges 3 hours to help their peers will get 3 months' free access to Farillio. Can you spare 3 hours to help a SME right now with your experience? #LeaveNoSMEBehind

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Katy pioneered social media marketing, launching her social media agency, immediate future, 15 years ago, just as Facebook made its way onto university campus.

Often called in as the UK expert on social by TV, Radio and the press, she appears regularly on BBC news, Victoria Derbyshire, and Reuters, as well in The Telegraph, FT and Guardian. She’s considered the 4th most influential social media marketing expert, named one of the 25 women who have made an outstanding contribution to digital by the Drum, and was honoured to be amongst the Top 100 Asian tech entrepreneurs in the UK.

She speaks at conferences, runs masterclasses, and guest lectures at two universities. She’s co-authored 3 books on social and is a regular contributor to the press.

Her expertise lies in helping brands deliver significant impact by breaking the social boring: using social data to springboard creative that delivers growth to businesses. Her agency works with brands including; lastminute.com, Princess Cruises, Selfridges, Mission Foods, Google, Diageo, JD Williams, Fujitsu, Sony Music, and many more. They win industry awards every year for their smarts and innovation in social media.

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Aaron is a Chartered Accountant and Head of Accounts at a state of the art accounting practice which uses cloud technology to make sure that clients have the information they need at their fingertips. Aaron is a UK Intuit QuickBooks Certified Trainer who travels all around the UK, delivering Core and Advance QuickBooks training to accountants. He is also a Director of AppleCore Group, a small family empire, which ensures that he practises what he preaches to all his lovely clients!

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