For Investor Directors, Chairs, Non-Executive Directors and Gatekeepers
This workshop is aimed at setting up the investment journey for success by ensuring alignment of interests between founders and investors and assessing and identifying key strengths, skills and gaps in the executive team at the outset. Minimising conflicts between “building business” and “maximising investor returns”.
It will discuss how to align the investor and founder directors through a clearly defined common vision, measures of success and added value roles. Appropriate compensation plans that align the interests of the investors and the founders will be considered.
Key Outcomes
- Holding honest conversations on the reality of the business plan, milestones and exit options.
- Assessing and measuring skills required for different stages of the journey
- Measuring the team against these skills
- Clearly defining roles and responsibilities of the exec team and board including the “value add” to build the team
- How to effectively review the company on a six monthly or annual basis
- Investment terms and compensation plans that maximise alignment and exit value.
Facilitators
Nelson Gray
Nelson an Angel investor for 20 years is a member of groups in Scotland and the USA. Presently with 16 live investments (9 in the US, 7 in the UK) 8 winners and a bunch of “learning experiences”. A director of LINC Scotland, a trustee of the USA based Angel Resource Institute, a charitable organisation devoted to providing education and information on best practices on angel investing and a former Vice President of EBAN, the European Trade Association for Business Angels, Nelson is recognised internationally as a “thought leader”. He has provided advice to Angel investors, government and entrepreneurs and in many counties across Europe and further afield, including the USA, Chile, India, Australia, Kazakhstan and New Zealand and helped to build Angel investment groups in Scotland, Latvia, Jordan, Russia and the Caribbean. He was European Angel of the Year in 2008, is a member of the investment committee for the British Governments £100 million UK Angel Co-investment fund and is tasked by the World Bank to develop Angel investing in developing regions. He has contributed to a number of recent publications including “Creating Angel Investor Groups: International Edition”, The World Bank, 2014 and “Angels without Boarders, Trends and Policies Shaping Angel Investing Worldwide”, World Scientific, 2015. Awarded the Queens Award for Enterprise Promotion in 2015
Kirsty Bathgate
Kirsty is the founder of Gearing for Growth, a strategic business consultancy supporting growing businesses to develop strong leadership; values led cultures, high performance teams and effective boards. An experienced SME MD, having built, led and exited a leading short break tourism business, with over 20 years experience in growing businesses, leading and coaching both, individuals and teams. An accredited executive coach who is passionate about supporting founders and leaders to achieve their potential and that of their business and team and having started her career in sales and marketing she still has a strong commercial and customer focus.
She is an Association for Coaching accredited executive coach, an accredited user of DISC psychometric profiling an experienced user of 360 degree tool and also holds a Certificate in Coaching from the University of Strathclyde, an International Coaching Federation Accredited Coaching Practice Certificate and a Chartered Institute of Marketing Postgraduate Diploma. Kirsty also actively participates in ongoing CPD and mentors for the Princes Trust Youth Business Scotland, E-Spark, is a trustee for Cyrenians and a module Leader for MSC in Entrepreneurial Leadership at Edinburgh Napier University.
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