Speed Mentoring Session: Innovating For Growth Taster

This is your chance to meet like-minded entrepreneurs, ask questions and get advice on four essential key areas of business growth:

- Strategy
- Branding
- Market Penetration
- How to protect your business with IP


This event will give you a taste of the bespoke advice and support you can receive on our award-nominated Innovating for Growth programme. The programme which provides established London-based business owners with £10,000 worth of funded bespoke advice and support.

You will meet our trusted Innovating for Growth experts who have advised hundreds of our established entrepreneurs on how to take their business to the next level.

Experts on hand:

Uday Thakkar, Managing director of Red Ochre

Uday has expertise in strategic and change management development. He is a social entrepreneur having started and successfully managed a number of commercial businesses, a charity and two social enterprises. He has also won the Social Enterprise Mentor of the Year Award and is a regular and popular speaker at conferences and seminars on enterprise, leadership, governance and finance.

Alistair Bullen, Director of ABA design

Alistair is a brand and marketing specialist bringing together expert teams to deliver brand projects and on-going marketing contracts. He works with many businesses on their brand and marketing strategy and implementation.

David Warrilow MSc(Chem), MSc(IP), CPA, EPA, RTMA, ETMA

Patent Attorney & Trademark Attorney and founder of London IP

David joined the profession in 2001, and founded London IP in 2009. He has advised and represented a diverse range of clients, from lone inventors to a variety of multinationals in all aspects of intellectual property. His practice includes patents, trademarks, copyright and designs, and although his technical background is in chemistry, he has gained extensive experience of patenting mechanical inventions. He regularly runs What next for you invention? workshops with Bang Creation at the Centre.

Amanda Prout, Director of GearingUp

Her main focus is on business and people development, as well as marketing. GearingUp works with small businesses wanting to grow their brands, develop effective marketing and help them remove roadblocks to increased turnover and profits. She also works with more businesses that have plateaued or want to improve their performance, to get them growing again by improving their margins, managing innovation and the next generation of management or groom the business for sale.