How to go global from a UK base © UK Trade & Investment

UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) invites you for a round table discussion with Mr. Alpesh Patel, UKTI Global Entrepreneur Programme Dealmaker on 01 July, 2015.
Alpesh Patel is the UKTI Global Entrepreneur Programme (GEP) Dealmaker responsible for India, Malaysia, Singapore and Southern China. He is founder of an asset management company and a past member of the Advisory Board of ICICI’s private banking division. He is a former columnist for the Financial Times, has authored 18 books and co-presented Bloomberg TV for three years. He is a former Visiting Fellow in Business, Oxford University and a Barrister. 

Alpesh was appointed by the Foreign Secretary to the UK India Roundtable, is a Board Member of the UKIBC and co-founder of TiE-UK.

 

Topics to be covered:

·         How to go global from a UK base.

·         How companies have managed to go global from the UK and access the EU.

·         Why UK and EU now and still?

·         Do’s and don’ts of finding cornerstone customers to justify a UK set up.

·         Plugging into UK networks for a softer landing and better business development.

·         Finding capital – angels, VCs, grants, government procurement – who, how – navigating the maze & what doesn’t work.

 

Date: 01 July, 2015

Time: 10:00 – 12:00 hrs

Venue: British Deputy High Commission, Bangalore

              Prestige Takt, 23 Kasturba Road Cross, Bangalore 560001

               {Landmark: Near British Library, Opposite to Visvesvaraya Industrial  

                and Technological Museum}

 

RSVP: [email protected] ; Tel: 080 22100200 ext: 2013

 

UK Trade and Investment’s Global Entrepreneur Programme helps overseas entrepreneurs and early stage technology businesses or start-ups that want to relocate their business to the UK. Get in touch with us:  www.entrepreneurs.gov.uk