This is the perfect opportunity to hear first-hand accounts from successful entrepreneurs. The Bettany Centre Entrepreneurship Speaker Series gives you the chance to hear from a variety of entrepreneurs from across a range of industries.
The speakers will give you an insight in to their journey, identifying their successes and any mistakes that they may have made along their way. You will also be given the opportunity to ask questions, allowing you to delve even further in to the backstory of these well-established entrepreneurs.
Attending these events will provide you with a great chance to network with like-minded individuals who share your passion for entrepreneurship.
The events are entirely free of charge and refreshments are supplied (face-to-face events only).
Panel featuring recipients of Cranfield’s Seed Fund – Thursday 14 November 2024
Louise Parlons Bentata | Bluemethane
Louise is the co-founder and CEO of Bluemethane, with deep expertise in brand strategy, marketing, and innovation. Her true passion lies in climate change mitigation and making things happen. Prior to founding Bluemethane, Louise worked as a consultant, assisting management teams in both global corporations and SMEs with marketing, strategy, and lead generation across all major regions. Her client experience includes specialist engineering and manufacturing industries. Before establishing her consultancy, Louise held global and national marketing positions at L’Oréal and Johnson & Johnson. She holds an MBA from INSEAD, an MA in Geography from Cambridge University, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Business Leadership from Cambridge University.
Andrea Fiore | OHMG
With over 30+ years of experience in Business Development, Strategy, Marketing & Sales roles in a variety of sectors (including Technology, Retail, Marketing & Communications and Consumer Brands), Andrea has delivered and implemented business strategies for various blue-chip organizations to increase efficiency, lower cost, and drive sales growth.
Andrea also has significant international expertise in the development and management of important multinational companies and brands – including The Body Shop, Octagon Sports Marketing and Retail inMotion (Lufthansa Group Company).
In his current role, Andrea is co-founder of OHMG, the first beverage based on Magnesium in the UK & Europe. OHMG is 100% natural and contains zero calories, zero sugars and zero sweeteners. Known as the ‘Relaxation Mineral’, Magnesium is responsible for more than 300+ biochemical reactions in the body, from helping muscle recovery, to balancing the nerves and calming the mind. OHMG is currently in all Whole Foods stores, expanding in Waitrose stores and in over 50 independent retailers - with further retail partners in the pipeline. OHMG has recently launched in Switzerland, with further launches under consideration in the US, Italy and UAE.
Andrea is passionate about building brands that make a difference to people’s lives – from developing important social messages at the Body Shop, to improving the standard of inflight food at Lufthansa Group to now helping to develop a functional drink in the beverage industry aimed at improving mental wellbeing.
Emmanuel Kirunda | Olsights Ltd.
Emmanuel graduated with a full-time MBA in Sept 2021. He was the recipient of both The Odgers’ Award and Spirit of Cranfield Award. Upon graduation, he joined Olsights Ltd as a Co-founder. Prior to the MBA, he had spent over a decade working in the Oil & Gas industry in East and West Africa and the UK. He is a PMI certified Professional Project Manager and holds an MSc from the University of Texas in Austin. He started his professional career in the US in the Civil Engineering and Investment Banking industries.
At Olsights, he is responsible for finance, business planning and growth, and corporate administration. Olsights is a B-Corp certified London-based cleantech company with a purpose to accelerate the energy transition by providing affordable and efficient clean energy and decarbonisation insights. Their flagship product, The Olsights Eye, is an industry-first visualisation app that uses interactive dynamic 3D visualisations to speed up early-stage decision-making about the viability of industrial scale decarbonisation opportunities (mainly hydrogen, carbon capture and energy storage), and their connection to the power transmission grid.
Dr Filomeno Martina | WAAM3D Ltd.
Dr Filomeno Martina is the CEO of WAAM3D Ltd, a spin-out company of 老司机福利社 commercialising the Wire+Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) process. WAAM3D has 40 employees, and customers in 18 countries, from the USA to Japan. He is also a Non-Executive Director at Addept3D, in Singapore.
Prior to this, he was Senior Lecturer in Additive Manufacturing at the Welding Engineering and Laser Processing Centre, 老司机福利社, where he was the course director of the first MSc on Metal Additive Manufacturing in Europe. He is the winner of the 2022 FAME Jr award and has received further awards from BAE Systems (2010, 2018), Royal Aeronautical Society (2013), European Space Agency (2015), and The Welding Institute (2018).
In his spare time, he is a yoga practitioner and teacher, and enjoys live music.
