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  1. Racquel Smith

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    Racquel G. Smith is a consultant and former program manager with 10 years of experience in international development and community development. She specializes in gender issues and in organizational development, including impact monitoring and social enterprise development. She co-founded, Good Partners, a consulting cooperative of young development professionals based at the Centre for Social Innovation in Toronto. Racquel is also...
  2. Tweet to Win – Up To 5 Free Places On Offer

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    140 characters could win you an amazing weekend experience. Thanks to the generosity of the Cambridge Judge Business School, we are able to offer up to five free places at the upcoming Ideation @ CJBS weekend. Here’s what you have to do. Have a great idea for a project –  meaningful innovation that could change the world for the better....
  3. Meet the Judges

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    Judging the teams, in the quest for the most exciting new projects to come out of the weekend, will be: Alan Moore Christoph Loch Liz Stevenson Neil Stott Paula Cuneo
  4. Meet the Mentors

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    Over the weekend, you will be able to call on our team of experienced mentors. Not every mentor is available throughout the weekend, so you’ll want to keep an eye out for 1-1 sign-up sheets as well as the morning panel sessions, where teams will be encouraged and challenged. Our mentors are: Allan Maclean Andrew Hatcher Alasdair Gill Antonio Filippi Charles...
  5. Meet the Team

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    Your coaching team for the weekend includes: Simon Stockley Hanadi Jabado Orsi Ihasz Racquel Smith Jeremy Parsons It’s the team’s responsibility to keep the weekend running smoothly for everyone. If there’s anything you need in the run-up to or during the weekend, any of the team will be pleased to help....
  6. Jeremy Parsons

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    Jeremy Parsons taught himself programming at the library, some years before coming face-to-face with actual computers. ‘Beebsoft Enterprises,’ founded with sixth form friends, sold literally several cassettes of software by mail order. He didn’t make his fortune, but he did get hired by one of the pioneers of the PC industry to hack out software as the first employee of...
  7. Shai Vyakarnam

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    Dr Vyakarnam worked in industry for several years before completing his MBA and PhD. He has combined academic, practitioner and policy interests to provide advice to government agencies and UN agencies in several countries, on the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems, technology commercialisation and entrepreneurship education. He has mentored entrepreneurs and held non-executive directorships of small firms in addition to developing...
  8. Sergio Aschettino

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    Based in Cambridgeshire with offices in Cambridge, St Neots and Peterborough, I provide 1 – 1 business advice sessions on all aspects of starting, running and growing your business including topics such as:- • Business Planning • Financial forecasting and monitoring • Marketing support and mentoring • Identifying cost savings including environmental planning to reduce energy use and increasing profit...
  9. Neil Stott

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    Neil Stott is Chief Executive of Keystone Development Trust. Keystone is one of the largest development trusts in the country delivering, community development, social enterprises and property development. Previously Neil was Head of Community Development at Canterbury City Council, Principal Officer (Community) at Cambridge City Council and a youth and community worker for a number of children’s charities including Mencap,...

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