Here you can glean a little insight into who the speaker is and where they came from:
Event:
“Standing Out In a Crowded Market”
14th April 2010, The Atrium, Cardiff, 6.30pm-8.30pm
When Lucy Cohen and Sophie Hughes started Mazuma, they wanted to create a brand that reflected their personalities that felt young, modern and dynamic. As two newly qualified, entrepreneurial individuals they hoped to challenge the stereotype that accounting is something ‘old men in suits do’. Something that they have successfully achieved.
Lucy Cohen and Sophie Hughes set up Mazuma in 2006 after spotting a gap in the market for low cost, high quality accountancy services. After being told by their first business advisor that accountancy couldn’t be rebranded, they made it their mission to do just that! Four years later Mazuma has franchised across the UK and has a large Head Office facility in South Wales. Plans for the future are ambitious and will see Mazuma becoming the UK’s number one provider of small business accountancy services.
Robert Lloyd Griffiths, Chair of IOD
John Dabbs, MD BDM Client Services
More panelists to be confirmed end of Feb
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Past Events:
“Expanding Times. How to plan, what to plan for and how to achieve successful expansion in business”
Keynote Speaker: Paul Ragan, Founder Collateral Thinking 
In 1991 aged 23, Paul Ragan founded Motaquote in Cardiff, which became Wales’ largest Independent Insurance Broker through using an aggressive acquisition expansion method. By 2008, Paul opened 3 cold start branches, led a successful MBO, completed 16 acquisitions and sold to a London VC for £20m. Turning over £30m, Motaquote employed 180 staff and traded from 21 branches. Today Paul is involved in over 20 businesses, runs his own investment fund and is a founder member of Collateral Thinking.
Panelists:
Bill Mayne, CEO MSS Group
Mike Davies, Risk Director Finance Wales
Wil Williams, Director of MBA programme University of Glamorgan
Jean Church, MD 2Win Consulting & Chair IoD South & West Wales Branch
This event is NOW PASSED to find out about future events see our Events page
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Past Events: Ever wanted to Profit from Collaboration?
Speaker: Tom Ware
Company: Rondo Media
A bit about Tom:
Tom Ware joined Rondo Media in October 2008 from BBC in-house production in Bristol. Over 17 years at the BBC he was responsible for creating and producing a wide range of factual TV series for domestic and international television from history and arts documentaries to factual entertainment formats, lifestyle and daytime shows. With Rondo, he is currently developing and producing several different series and factual formats for the BBC and other UK broadcasters. As well as running the collaboration project which looks to break into the American market.
THIS EVENT HAS NOW PASSED. A video of Tom’s talk will be posted in due course.
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