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University of St Andrews Enterprise Week Keynote 2019

8th October 20198th October 2019 SABC Secretary

At the University of St Andrews Enterprise Week 2019 – Keynote Event, Dr Tanya Ewing, Owner of Glaze & Save, Daniel Malikzade-Afshar, Founder of Yes!Cab, Graeme Carling of Carling Property Group, PRS Group, United Capital, Infinitas Investments & CEO, McGill, Juno Lee, Co-Founder of CombiniCo & Sagar Kuma Sharma, Founder of the Angel Group, shared their entrepreneurial journeys, lessons learned and advice for anyone considering their own venture.

Dr Tanya Ewing, Entrepreneur & Owner of Glaze and Save Ltd, shares her story.

The evening began with a candid account from Dr Tanya, who shared the troubles she faced in her early life and how she overcame these challenges to develop her highly successful career with Ewgeco, the first smart real-time utility meter in the UK, and her new business Glaze & Save – insulating products for doors and windows, mainly focused on improving energy efficiency in listed and conservation properties.

Graeme Carling, Founder & CEO – Carling Property Group, PRS Group, United Capital, Infinitas Investments and Chief Executive of McGill, tells his entrepreneurial story.

Graeme Carling was just as candid about his business journey – admitted to making mistakes in early businesses before going on to build his large and successful portfolio of businesses. A key message was the need to adapt to changing markets – a very important lesson in today’s economic and political climate.

Journey

Juno Lee gave a very interesting and enlightening description of his journey to creating the iconic CombiniCo food brand and his future plans for the business. The audience enjoyed hearing his stories and challenges he faced.

Daniel Malikzade-Afshar, Founder., YesCab, gave a very candid talk!

Daniel Malikzade-Afshar gave a comic yet educational talk in a laidback style with insights into the challenges and surprises he came across when establishing the Yes!Cab taxi app. It was very interesting learning about his unique business model and his plans to grow the brand while diversifying against his major competitor, Uber.

4th Year Management student Sagar Kumar Sharma talked about his experiences.

The evening concluded with Sagar Kumar Sharma, a student entrepreneur with a colourful career already including investments, property and music. Sagar took a different approach to the others – taking of the importance of pursuing a career you enjoy, which develops you as a person and philanthropy.

Thanks to them, the Enterprise Week Committee and everyone who attended for making this such a great event at the Byre Theatre.

Student Club

Stanley Parker, one of the club’s marketing communications interns, took the opportunity of this event to announce the launch of the new student business club – St Andrews Business Club Students!

For more photos, go to the Album on our Facebook page.

NEXT EVENT: The Club’s next event is October 23: Structured Networking.

Entrepreneurs to share inspiring success stories at Uni event

23rd September 201923rd September 2019 SABC Secretary

Award-winning entrepreneurs will share their inspiring success stories with students and business people at the annual University of St Andrews Enterprise Week Keynote event on October 7.

The free event, open to all, to be held at The Byre Theatre from 5.30pm, will hear Dr Tanya Ewing, Graeme Carling, Daniel Malikzade-Afshar and Juno Lee speak about their experiences, approach and success. It will also begin with 90 minutes of networking.

Tanya Ewing is the multiple award-winning tech entrepreneur, inventor, consultant and mentor who invented the Ewgeco smart real-time utility meter so people could more easily see, understand, and control their costs. She continues to champion energy efficiency with her latest venture at Glaze & Save, which focuses on insulating doors and windows in the listed and historic property sector.

Graeme Carling is the founder and CEO of Carling Property Group, one of the largest private residential landlords in Scotland, and Infinitas Investment as well as Chief Executive of McGill, which he brought back from the brink after buying it out of administration, creating 50 jobs within five months.

Current 3rd Year St Andrews Physics student Daniel Malikzade-Afshar is the founder of local taxi booking platform Yes!Cab, which he created to allow long-established local firms to compete with the giant ride-sharing apps.

Juno Lee, is the co-founder of Combini Co a St Andrews-based fast-casual food and beverage company which combines authentic Korean and Japanese flavours with local Scottish produce.

St Andrews Business Club has partnered with the Enterprise Week student committee for the third year to help organise the event as part of its commitment to nurturing entrepreneurship.

Networking Opportunities

The event will begin at 5.30pm with networking with students and university staff over drinks, before the presentations begin at 7pm. After each of the presenters has spoken, the audience will get a chance to ask them questions.

Speaking about the event, St Andrews Business Club President, Caroline Rochford, said: “We’re delighted to have been asked to contribute to this event for a third year to help inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs and business people. The Club welcomes them to any of our own events and we look forward to hearing stories which will doubtless inspire our members too.”

Bonnie Hacking, Enterprise & Employability Adviser at the University of St Andrews, says: “We’d like to thank St Andrews Business Club for its continued contribution to this event to promote entrepreneurship in our students and in the local community.”

Free tickets for business people should be booked via Eventbrite – for the link go to the Business Club website at www.standrewsbusinessclub.co.uk or the St Andrews Enterprise Week Facebook page, where you can read full details of this event and the rest of the Enterprise week. Students should book via The Byre website.

Business Visit + Summer Social – The R&A

27th June 201925th June 2020 SABC Secretary

Report by Sanaa Sachdev

Members and Guests enjoyed the Club’s 2019 Summer Social and Business Visit at the Forgan House base of The R&A.

The R&A group of companies was formed in 2004 to take on The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews’ responsibilities for governing the Rules of Golf, staging The Open, golf’s original championship, and developing the sport. The British Golf Museum in St Andrews is part of the R&A group.

Together The R&A and the USGA govern the sport of golf worldwide, operating in separate jurisdictions with a commitment to a single code for the Rules of Golf, Rules of Amateur Status and Equipment Standards. The R&A, through R&A Rules Ltd, governs the sport worldwide, outside of the United States and Mexico, on behalf of over 36 million golfers in 143 countries and with the consent of 156 organisations from amateur and professional golf.

The R&A merged with the Ladies’ Golf Union in 2017 and now has responsibility for running a series of world class amateur events and international matches in women’s and girls’ as well as men’s and boy’s golf. The R&A works with IMG to stage the Women’s British Open and with the European Tour to stage the Senior Open.

The R&A Executive Director – Governance & Chief of Staff, David Rickman, gave attendees an insight into the workings of one of the world’s leading sporting organisations

R&A Executive Director – Governance & Chief of Staff, David Rickman, gave attendees an insight into the workings of one of the world’s leading sporting organisations before explaining how it is aiming to invest £200 million in developing golf over the next decade and further support the growth of the sport internationally, including the development and management of sustainable golf facilities.

Members and their Guests then enjoyed networking over canapes and refreshments.

Thanks to the R&A for kindly hosting this event.

For more information about the R&A, go to its website.

For more photos, go to the Album on our Facebook page.

Pictures by ASM Media & PR

Learn from business success stories at St Andrews event

11th May 201928th February 2019 SABC Secretary

People doing business in North-East Fife can learn from others’ successes at St Andrews Business Club’s next event on June 5.

In the final open event of the club’s season, to be held at the Old Course Hotel from 5.30pm, members will tell attendees about success their business has had and how they can learn from them.

Anyone wanting to learn from these stories, as well as network, is asked to book via Eventbrite.

A full list of this season’s events can be found at http://bit.ly/StABCEvents.

Full details of all the club’s events, most of which are now open to non-members, are available on Eventbrite.

Inspiring Women 2019

7th March 2019 SABC Secretary

By Sanaa Sachdev

Some of the most successful businesses are run by women who’ve worked hard to pursue their goals and witness their dreams come true.

However, it’s not the person’s gender, but a great idea, dedication, optimism and perseverance that can differentiate a successful business model from a struggling one.

Kirsty Thomson, Founder and CEO of The Circle Dundee CIC, ACK CIC and Saltire Fellow, shared her story, lessons learned and advice to others at the second Inspiring Women event held by St Andrews Business Club at The Old Course Hotel.

In the Club’s second annual Inspiring Women event to celebrate International Women’s Day, Kirsty Thomson, Founder and CEO of Circle Scotland CIC, ACK CIC and Saltire Fellow, shared her story on how she started her social enterprise after having gaining experience understanding the models of another social enterprise when her sister was supported by it due to her disability.

Her presentation included an online interactive quiz for attendees and was enjoyed by all.

For more information about The Circle Dundee, visit its website at www.thecircledundee.org.uk

Angie Foreman, Programme Director and Founder of Coca-Cola 5by20 and CEO of Women’s Business Station, shared her story, lessons learned and advice to others at the second Inspiring Women event held by St Andrews Business Club at The Old Course Hotel.

Angie Foreman, Programme Director & Founder of Coca-Cola 5by20 and CEO of Women’s Business Station, shared her Top 10 tips she’s learned over the years which helped her achieve success in life and business.

Her wit and confident delivery had attendees in fits of laughter.

For more information about the Coca-Cola 5by20 Dundee initiative, go to https://www.dundeeandanguschamber.co.uk/144_Coca-Cola5by20Programme.html

For more photos, go to the Album on our Facebook page.

NEXT EVENT: The Club’s next event is April 3 Business Breakfast – Reverse Engineer a Successful Business Exit, when Ewan Menzies, Director of Castle Strategy, Mount Parnassus Partners Concord and CTA Global, will explain how to plan a successful business exit strategy.

Club News – Marketing Communications Interns & Marketing Assistant appointed

14th February 2019 SABC Secretary

St Andrews Business Club Marketing Communications Interns (from left) Sanaa Sachdev and Stanley Parker and Marketing Assistant Louise Cree.

St Andrews Business Club is delighted to announce it has appointed Stanley Parker and Sanaa Sachdev as its new Marketing Communications interns.

They were selected from a high-quality field of candidates after impressing the panel with their skills, experience and demonstrated marketing acumen.

Both are 2nd Year students at the University of St Andrews studying for an MA in Management. Their internships have started immediately and will last until they graduate in 2021.

They will gradually take on the duties currently carried out by our first Marketing Communications Intern, Comora Love-Mitchell, as they are trained in each and as Comora prepares for graduation this summer.

The Club is also delighted to announce that they will be assisted by a new Marketing Assistant, Louise Cree.

Louise is an Administrative Assistant at Fife Business Services Ltd and is completing a Modern Apprenticeship in Digital Marketing.

Fife Business Services Ltd kindly offered the Club Louise’s skills on a time-share basis and she already completed a successful project to improve the SEO of the Club’s website.

We look forward to improving the Club’s marketing further with the help of these excellent young people.

Inspiring women to share Inspiring women to share their stories at St Andrews event

1st February 201928th January 2019 SABC Secretary

Kirsty Thomson (left) and Angie Foreman are the speakers for St Andrews Business Club’s second Inspiring Women event on March 6.
Picture of Angie Foreman by Malcolm Cochrane Photography, for Business Women Scotland/WES Awards 2018.
Picture of Kirsty Thomson by Kathryn Rattray Photography.

Two inspiring award-winning female entrepreneurs will share their stories and advice in the second annual St Andrews Business Club event to celebrate International Women’s Day.

In the event, to be held at the Old Course Hotel from 5.30pm on March 6, Angie Foreman and Kirsty Thomson will inspire attendees from all backgrounds.

In her 25-year career, award-winning businesswoman Angie Foreman, Programme Director & Founder of Coca-Cola 5by20 and CEO of Women’s Business Station, has worked mainly in the third sector and is mostly recognised for her empowerment work with women.

She has created award-winning social enterprises, community empowerment models and impactful corporate social responsibility programmes for Coca-Cola, all of which have benefited hundreds of women. Last year Angie won the Change Catalyst award at the Women Enterprising Scotland Awards and ‘Women of Inspiration Award’ from the Association of Scottish Businesswomen.

Award-winning

Kirsty Thomson is an award-winning serial social entrepreneur who’s set up and runs two Community Interest Companies over the past seven years – ACK Third Sector Consultants CIC (formerly Along Came Kirsty) and Circle Scotland CIC (The Circle).

Kirsty has a wealth of knowledge and experience working in and with charities and social enterprises over 20 years to secure more than £13 million in funding. She is a Saltire Fellow through Entrepreneurial Scotland, in 2017 was recognised as a Women of Inspiration by the Association of Scottish Businesswomen and is on the NatWest Wise100 2018 list, which recognises the most inspiring and influential women in social enterprise, impact investment and mission-driven businesses in the UK.

Anyone wanting to learn from them, as well as network, is asked to book via Eventbrite.

A full list of this season’s events can be found at http://bit.ly/StABCEvents.

Journey

Student Club

Award-winning entrepreneurs will share their inspiring success stories with students and business people at the annual University of St Andrews Enterprise Week Keynote event on October 7.

Networking Opportunities

In the first event of the 2019-20 season, Eileen Cooper, the award-winning marketing consultant and owner of Limetree Marketing & Business Consultancy, shared examples of how brands have adapted their message to the modern world to stimulate thought on marketing in today’s society.

Members and Guests enjoyed the Club’s 2019 Summer Social and Business Visit at the Forgan House base of The R&A.

People doing business in North-East Fife can learn from others’ successes at St Andrews Business Club’s next event on June 5.

Women’s Enterprise Scotland Chief Executive Carolyn Currie is the speaker at St Andrews Business Club’s AGM Evening on Wednesday May 15, to which non-members are invited after the AGM formalities.

Achievements

Some of the most successful businesses are run by women who’ve worked hard to pursue their goals and witness their dreams come true.

St Andrews Business Club is delighted to announce it has appointed Stanley Parker and Sanaa Sachdev as its new Marketing Communications interns.

Two inspiring award-winning female entrepreneurs will share their stories and advice in the second annual St Andrews Business Club event to celebrate International Women’s Day.

Award-winning