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Entrepreneur Mentor in Residence Programme

Get support, start-up advice and guidance from our selection of experienced entrepreneur mentors.

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The Entrepreneur Mentor in Residence Programme (EMiR) supports students who are interested in pursuing a career in entrepreneurship, whether launching or growing their own venture.

We have assembled a team of successful entrepreneurs, mostly from our alumni community from London and Dubai, who generously give their time every month to help our students with their entrepreneurial ambitions.

Whether offering advice, support or a shoulder to lean on, our mentors have the experience and track record to help students build and launch their ventures.

"The EMiR programme helped us connect with experienced professionals and entrepreneurs who reviewed our business plan and provided valuable inputs that helped us further refine our plan."
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Anand Iyer SLN 2020 and Samr Calcuttawala SLN 2020

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How to book a session

Sessions can be booked as by contacting the mentors via the contact information provided in the brochure.

Current students can find more details about the EMiR programme, the mentors and how to book a session on the Canvas Career Centre Entrepreneurship pages. Alumni, please contact us for further information on how to book a session. 

Please note: EMiR sessions will be held exclusively online during the current School closure period in accordance with government guidelines.

EMiR Office Hours

Some mentors are now offering exclusive pre-set office hour sessions online. Details on this are available on the EMiR Canvas pages and regular information will be sent out via the Entrepreneurship Club.


Find out more

London EMiRs

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Rachel Bell

 

Founder and CEO of Brand Spanking Consulting

Specialisation:

  • Strategy
  • Planning
  • Marketing
  • Business Development
  • HR
  • Finance
  • M&A Prep
  • Employee incentive schemes

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Elizabetta Camilleri MBA2000

 

Chair, Access Partnership and Togetherall

Specialisation:

  • Strategic innovation
  • B2C digital businesses
  • Digital transformation
  • Commercialisation of data
  • Leveraging data to improve operations
  • Growth and Scale-up
  • Two sided marketplaces

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Audrey Mandela

 

Director of Mandela Associates

Specialisation:

  • Start-ups
  • Fund-raising
  • Pitch prep
  • Due diligence
  • Governance
  • Customer and supplier contracts
  • Gender inclusivity

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Jacques de Cock MBA1986

 

Partner of CQRS and CEO of BQuServices

Specialisation:

  • Early stage planning and fund raising
  • Business planning and development
  • Consulting
  • Education
  • Financial services
  • Online
  • Recruitment
  • Technology
  • Charity

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Max Comfort

 

Social Entrepreneur

Specialisation:

  • Creative Industries
  • Social Entrepreneurship

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Oliver Everett SLN1998

 

Senior Partner, Rissemere Limited

Specialisation:

  • Automotive
  • Consumer
  • Manufacturing
  • Retail

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Joseph Fitzgibbon MBA2014

 

Founder of Growth & Company

Specialisation:

  • Starting and scaling businesses
  • Growth marketing
  • Digital marketing
  • Corporate and commercial strategy - including pricing
  • FMCG, two sided marketplaces, subscription businesses

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Karan Gupta MBA2012

 

SVP – Online, Moglix

Specialisation:

  • Business Development & Sales
  • P&L Ownership
  • Building and Operating Sales Teams
  • Build out of new Business and Divisions

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Andrew Hall MBA1993

 

Senior Advisor, Blackstone

Specialisation:

  • Engineering technology
  • Manufacturing
  • Renewables

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Osman Haneef

 

Senior Manager of Ventures, IEPC

Specialisation:

  • Accelerators and Incubators
  • CEO
  • Start-ups and Entrepreneurship
  • Fundraising
  • Product MVPs
  • Team building

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Jack Huang MBA2009

 

Co-founder of Truly Experiences

Specialisation:

  • Consumer retail / marketplaces
  • Hospitality / leisure / travel
  • Idea/MVP development, growth experiments, general start up advice

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Jeff Kelisky MBA97

 

Seasoned Technology Leader

Specialisation

  • CEO, COO, building businesses
  • Start-ups and Entrepreneurship
  • Fundraising
  • Turnarounds and Transformation
  • Creating new product categories - disrupting legacy industries
  • Fintech, Consumer, Retail, Search, Mapping, Leisure
  • Founder Augmentation and Transition
  • Organisational design
  • Leadership and Executive Team building

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Andrew Manley MBA1991

 

Director at Prolifient Partners

Specialisation:

  • Early planning and accessing finance
  • Team development
  • Growth and exit strategies
  • Supply chain development
  • Energy and Renewables
  • IT Services

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Ali Meruani MBA2011

 

Founder, Recv

Specialisation:

  • Consumer
  • Food
  • Fundraising
  • Media
  • Online

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Alex O’Cinneide MiFPT2004

 

CEO and Chair of the Investment Committee of Gore Street Capital

Specialisation

  • Energy and renewable investment
  • Energy policy
  • Private equity
  • Asset management
  • Board management
  • Growth

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Rupal Patel MBA2013

 

Founder of Entreprenora

Specialisation:

  • Strategy
  • Idea generation, refinement, and testing
  • Systems and processes
  • Leadership/management

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Rory Popert MBA2016

 

Co-Founder, Unison

Specialisation:

  • Pharma
  • Biotech
  • Life Science Investments

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David Saenz MBA2014

 

Chief Commercial Officer, Evri

Specialisation:

  • Strategy
  • Business development
  • Scaling early stage companies
  • Two sided marketplaces

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Daniel Saunders MBA2009

 

Founder and CEO, Zeti

Specialisation:

  • Transport
  • Cleantech
  • Energy
  • Investment
  • Fundraising

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Jim Shaikh MBA2002

 

Head of the Greenhouse, Undaunted, Imperial College London

Specialisation:

  • Consumer products
  • International distribution
  • Product design, development and prototyping
  • Fundraising – equity & debt
  • IP development and protection
  • International supply chain and manufacturing

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Ritz Steytler JEMBA2008

 

Technology Entrepreneur

Specialisation:

  • Search Funds
  • Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition
  • Private Equity / M&A
  • Software,SaaS
  • E-Commerce
  • Payments
  • Fintech
  • Cyber Security and Fraud Detection
  • Sustainability
  • Industrial Technology
  • Deeptech
  • Big Data Analytics
  • Machine Learning
  • AI
  • B2B Marketplaces

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Karthik Suresh

 

Co-Founder, Ignition

Specialisation:

  • SaaS
  • Enterprise product development
  • GTM

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Myra Tabor MSC19(1985)

 

CEO of Cognis Capital

Specialisation:

  • Health, Education and Fintech start-ups
  • Asset management start-ups
  • Complex and challenging situations
  • Developing Founders vision and strategy

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Yuval Yashiv MBA1994

 

Chief Executive Officer, Thermology Health

Specialisation:

  • Early stage planning
  • Business Development and strategic relationships
  • Product commercialisation
  • Fundraising
  • Medical regulatory
  • IP & patents
  • Finance
  • Overseas expansion – US & Japan
  • Industries: software & internet/ medical devices/ food & soft drinks

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Elisabetta Zaccaria (She/Her) CFM091 (2009)

C-suite Executive, Founder, NED, Advisor

Specialisation:

  • Consulting and Technology Sector Expertise
  • Build and Exit Successful Businesses
  • High-Growth and Scaling Strategies
  • Risk and Resilience (Operational & Digital)
  • Building and Leading High-Performing Teams
  • Integrating ESG in Strategy for Sustainable Growth
  • Private Equity, Venture Capital, M&A, IPOs and Exits

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Dubai EMiRs

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Chennakeshav Adya EMBALJ2015

Managing Partner at Adan Corporate Finance

Specialisation:

  • Converting Ideas into Vision, Strategy and Reality
  • Conceptualising and Commercialising Digital Innovation
  • Communication, Negotiation, Presentation, PR skills
  • Marketing Strategy, Branding, Pricing, GTM, Positioning
  • End-to-end PE/VC Fund-raising, M&A advisory
  • Global Delivery, Programme / Project Management
  • Big Data, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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Saleem Arif MBA2005

 

Co-founder of Spacemize and CEO at Review Solicitors

Specialisation:

  • Consumer
  • Financial
  • Fundraising
  • Legal
  • Online
  • Property
  • Recruitment

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Nadine Benchaffai MBA2005

Founder and CEO at Abfab Foods

Specialisation:

  • FMCG
  • Branding
  • Innovation
  • Strategy
  • Food retail

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Swethal Kumar EMBADS2016

 

CEO and Managing Partner of Startupscale360 FZCO

Specialisation:

  • Startup ecosystem builder in the Middle East
  • Fund raising and Venture Capital
  • Financial modelling
  • Go-to-market strategy
  • Growth and scale up
  • Leadership and management
  • Sovereign fund
  • Accelerator
  • Venture Capital setup

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Aman Merchant

Serial Parallel Entrepreneur

Specialisation:

  • Strategy
  • Innovation and Disruption
  • Startups
  • Education
  • Peak Performance
  • Longevity and Wellness
  • Social Enterprises

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Mohamed Nassar DEMBAS2012

Founder of DLC Collective

Specialisation:

  • Business start-up in Dubai
  • Sources of funding
  • Evolving from a start-up to an SME
  • International trade for SMEs
  • SME strategy and vision alignment to market realities

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For any enquiries about this programme please contact us entrepreneurship@london.edu

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