Spotlight on the Speaker

In this episode Maryanne chats with Callum Murray, CEO of Amiqus about his experiences of presenting – raising investment, building up an impressive client list, growing his team and presenting to the board.

For more information on the events, accelerators and programmes we mentioned during this episode, here are the relevant websites:

https://www.eie-invest.com/
https://www.scottishedge.com/
https://www.convergechallenge.com/
https://www.civtech.scot/
https://www.scottish-enterprise.com/

In Episode 2 Maryanne chats with Barbara Mills, Deputy Programme Director of CivTech.
In just a few years, the CivTech Programme has grown from an interesting experimental idea delivering a handful of projects a year to a programme with over £40 million of Scottish Government funding behind it and a significant contributor to the Programme for Government National Strategy for Economy Transformation. Barbara's role has changed from developing their system and supporting individual projects to scaling their approach, building the team and systems they use – so that they can scale as a programme and deliver real impact. We chat about how her role has changed, how her presenting style has developed and discuss some great top tips.

For more information on CivTech please go to https://www.civtech.scot/
And for more information on the events, accelerators, programmes & companies we mentioned during this episode, here are the relevant websites:
https://forestryandland.gov.scot/
https://amiqus.co/
https://www.silvibio.com/
https://www.gov.scot/
https://ukcop26.org/
https://www.treegrowers.co.uk/

In Episode 3 Maryanne chats with Ewan Anderson, Marketing Director at Eden Scott.
Whilst Ewan's full time role is with Eden Scott, he is involved with several organisations including Snowsport Scotland and the Chartered Institute of Marketing. This means he is communicating with a diverse range of audiences, using different tools on a regular basis. Ewan describes the very personal journey he has been on in developing his communication skills throughout his career.
For more information on Eden Scott, TalentSpark,  the Chartered Institute of Marketing and Snowsport Scotland, here are the relevant websites:
https://www.edenscott.com/
https://www.edenscott.com/talent-spark
https://regions.cim.co.uk/scotland/home
https://snowsportscotland.org/

From being an Agile Speaker to a Conscious Speaker…. Ana Gallardo shares some thought provoking takeaways in this episode.
Ana is currently Head of Startup Infrastructure at the Scottish Government and was formerly the Entrepreneurial Development Team Leader at Scottish Enterprise. Scottish Enterprise have organised and funded many programmes to help businesses and their people grow. Maryanne has delivered several of these programmes so we talk about the impact these programmes have had in giving business leaders confidence, helping them on their journey to raise millions in investment. We also discuss working with Ana and her team when they were establishing relationships, speaking at events and how she handled a very last minute speaker slot.

For more information on Scottish Enterprise, Informatics Ventures, Scottish Edge, RSE, Young Enterprise Scotland and Elevator, here are the relevant links:
https://www.scottish-enterprise.com/
https://www.informatics-ventures.com/
https://www.scottishedge.com/
https://rse.org.uk/
https://yes.org.uk/
https://www.elevatoruk.com/

As Head of EIE Programme Delivery & Investor Relations, Danny Helson has been involved in EIE since the start.

He shares some great stories about some of the 500+ companies who have been through the programme. $1.5bn investment has been raised so far, teams have grown, they have scaled internationally and some have successfully exited.

For more information on the events, accelerators, programmes & companies we mentioned during this episode, here are the relevant websites:

https://www.eie-invest.com/
https://www.ed.ac.uk/
https://guykawasaki.com/
https://www.fanduel.com/
https://www.currenthealth.com/
https://www.strath.ac.uk/
https://www.krotosaudio.com/
https://www.appointedd.com/

I chatted with Hayley and Emma about the programme we delivered, the impact it's had on their speakers, as well as on the Marketing Team who support the speakers at these events.

https://www.smartestenergy.com/en_gb
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hayley-t-773b8212/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/emma-smeaton-1073b935/

Converge has supported 600+ entrepreneurs, since it started in Scotland working with staff and students at universities.

300+ companies have been created, 1000+ high value jobs and £320m+ follow on funding has been raised.  

I chatted with Claudia about some of the challenges founders have when taking to the stage for the first time to pitch their business to investors.

https://www.convergechallenge.com

https://www.novosound.net

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-renouf-16b20086/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/caroline-barelle-94631032/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/erin-reid-2b89ab203/?originalSubdomain=uk

https://mirna-diagnostics.com/en

https://www.linkedin.com/in/eve-hanks-703108199/

If you're a company with Scottish connections, looking to scale up then you might want to listen to this podcast. Ken Whipp is the Programme Director of Scale Up Scotland. Their ambition is to support fellow entrepreneurs to build world class, scalable businesses by sharing experience, access and networks to drive dynamic growth.

Maryanne has delivered workshops with their cohorts and enjoyed asking Ken about how important being a good speaker is to leaders who are scaling their businesses.

Scale Up Scotland
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenwhipp/
The Hunter Foundation

Caroline Barelle is a force of nature.

She is also the CEO and Founder of Elasmogen, a biopharmaceutical company in Aberdeen, Scotland. Elasmogen is rapidly progressing a pipeline of next-generation, differentiated soloMER products for the treatment of solid tumour cancers and auto-immune inflammatory diseases.

She has won the Scottish Life Sciences Award for Rising Star – Extraordinary Talent, Entrepreneurial Scotland’s Summit Award for Academic Entrepreneur of the Year and Most Innovative Company at BioFit2018’s Start-up Slam.  

Be prepared for entertaining stories of her experiences of presenting throughout her career to all sorts of audiences.

Elasmogen
https://www.linkedin.com/in/caroline-barelle-94631032/
Scotland's Life Sciences Awards
Entrepreneurial Scotland
BioFIT