A Moment With

In this week’s episode, Vicky chats with George Ratcliffe. George is the COO of INEOS Hygienics, a 60 million dollar global chemical company. We discuss how he started and scaled INEOS Hydrogenic in the middle of the COVID pandemic.     “A Moment with” uncovers candid conversations between leading entrepreneurs, engineers, innovators and changemakers. We will dive into their success stories, lessons learnt and much more!   You can follow @Bath Entrepreneurs on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter!   George Ratcliffe COO INEOS Hygienics  George graduated from Bath, Politics with Economics, in 2013. He joined INEOS, a family business, when he left in 2013, moving to Grangemouth & Aberdeen to work for INEOS O&P for 5 years. After that George moved to London to work as a Gas Trader (propane, butane, ethane) in Canary Wharf, before moving to INEOS’ central London office. After 3 years of trading, George moved back into the core of the INEOS business to run INEOS Compounds, a PVC Compounding business. Two years after, when the first wave of the pandemic came to the UK, George started INEOS Hygienics, and INEOS Healthcare business, using INEOS manufactured raw materials, Ethanol, IPA, to produce more than 4 million bottles for free to the NHS and European hospitals, of sanitiser. Since then, INEOS Hygienics has become a global brand, within 1 year, being sold throughout the UK (Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, Ocado), and equivalents across Europe & the USA.    Links  https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-ratcliffe-7905544a/    

In this week’s episode, Vicky chats with Romain Barbier. Romain is the Chief of Staff for Strategy and Operations at Google. We discuss his international career and growth mindset as well remote working and working productively.   “A Moment with” uncovers candid conversations between leading entrepreneurs, engineers, innovators and changemakers. We will dive into their success stories, lessons learnt and much more!   You can follow @Bath Entrepreneurs on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter!  Romain graduated from the University of Bath in 2015 with a degree in Business Administration (BBA). While at Bath, his two placements in Mumbai and at L’Oreal in London helped him land a job at Google. He spent 3 years in Dublin supporting Google’s advertising clients as an Account Manager, before being transferred to the London Headquarters as a Sales Strategy & Operations Manager. Thanks to Google’s geo-flexibility during the COVID-19 pandemic, Romain has been working remotely for over a year from his home country, France. Aside from Google, Romain is also working on a side business in the sexual wellness industry !   Links  https://www.linkedin.com/in/romain-barbier-47200469/?originalSubdomain=uk    

n this week’s episode, Vicky chats with David Kelly. David is the CEO and Co-founder of Storm Consultancy. He shares with us his different ventures and his insights as a tech investor for early-mid stage scaleups. He also discusses Co-forest, a carbon offsetting scheme based in Bath and Bristol and Bath Digital Festival.  “A Moment with” uncovers candid conversations between leading entrepreneurs, engineers, innovators and changemakers. We will dive into their success stories, lessons learnt and much more!   You can follow @Bath Entrepreneurs on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter! David is the CEO at Storm Consultancy, and award-winning technical partner to startups and scaleups. He is also a tech investor with a portfolio of early-mid stage scaleups. Outside of work David is a trustee and the founder of the Co-forest project which is planting hundreds of acres of new woodland across the UK, he is also the founder and a trustee at the Bath Digital Festival.   Links  https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhkelly/?originalSubdomain=uk   

In this week’s episode, Vicky chats with George Holder and Gwen Feng. We discuss the importance of Corporate Venture Capital’s within the start-up ecosystem, with a Civil Engineering industry focus. Also uncovering the importance of the digital age within investments and funding.   “A Moment with” uncovers candid conversations between leading entrepreneurs, engineers, innovators and changemakers. We will dive into their success stories, lessons learnt and much more!   You can follow @Bath Entrepreneurs on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter!  Bio   George Holder is the Venture Partnerships Manager at Mott MacDonald Ventures, connecting invested startups with the core business to realise value for our clients and their customers. George has over five years' experience at the intersection of corporate finance, strategy and innovation and is comfortable with the cultural, commercial, and technological aspects surrounding industry change.   Links  https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-holder/  

In this week’s episode, Vicky chats with Jordan Harry. Jordan is a memory and speech reading coach and the co-founder of StudyFast. He shares with us the founding principles of his start-up, lessons learnt and advice to budding entrepreneurs. We also uncover the importance of habits, benefits of speed reading for productivity and success.  “A Moment with” uncovers candid conversations between leading entrepreneurs, engineers, innovators and changemakers. We will dive into their success stories, lessons learnt and much more!   You can follow @Bath Entrepreneurs on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter!  Bio   Jordan Harry is a memory and speed reading coach, and the co-founder of StudyFast.  Over the past 5 years, I have been working alongside my co-founder Oyinkro on bringing StudyFast's mission of making speed reading and memory training accessible to all.  In that time we have been creating online courses, workshops and speaking at high-profile events to share our knowledge of how easy it is to transform the way you learn.  My TEDx talk, which has been viewed by 2 million people, changed our lives and with the help of the StudyFast team, we have now taught over 20,000 people from 147 countries speed reading and memory techniques.   Links Connect withJordanat: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordanharry/ Become a speed reader and remember anything: https://www.studyfast.uk/  

In this week’s episode, Vicky chats with Dr Harveen Chugh. Harveen is the Principal Teaching Fellow and Consultant in Entrepreneurship at Imperial College Business School. She is the winner of two National Enterprise Educator Awards in 2020 for Enterprise Catalyst and People's Choice. Recognised globally by Poets&Quants as a Top 40 Under 40 Business School Professor in 2019 and the only female to be recognised on the list from a UK Business School.She led innovation in pedagogy with research on entrepreneurship coaching. Receiving and managing a grant of £95,000 from the Imperial College Learning and Teaching Strategy fund to develop a framework for entrepreneurship coaching that enhances the student experience. “A Moment with” uncovers candid conversations between leading entrepreneurs, engineers, innovators and changemakers. We will dive into their success stories, lessons learnt and much more!You can follow @Bath Entrepreneurs on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter!

In this week’s episode, Vicky chats with Tom Phipps. Tom is from the University of Southampton; he has been working on a range of different ventures and the latest is soton_ codes. This platform is aimed at improving the digital literacy of students at Southampton no matter what their background. They chat about Tom’s journey from Law, love for Bitcoin and insights for the future!“A Moment with” uncovers candid conversations between leading entrepreneurs, engineers, innovators and changemakers. We will dive into their success stories, lessons learnt and much more!You can follow @Bath Entrepreneurs on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter!Tom Phipps is from the University of Southampton. Over the past five years, Tom has been involved in a number of enterprise experiences, from participating in Setsquared’s 3DS programme to launching a number of startups whilst at university.Whilst he is currently studying for his PhD in Decision Analytics, Intelligent Systems, and Ethics at Southampton he is also helping lead this year’s new committee of the Southampton Entrepreneurs Society and the Artificial Intelligence Society, as well as soon to be launching his brand new venture, soton_codes. This massive new digital literacy initiative is designed to help students, staff, and alumni - no matter their background - learn the necessary skills to thrive in an ever-growing digital world, covering everything from coding to digital design, as well as a load of other useful skills.Links Website: https://www.tom-phipps.com Li: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tombphipps/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tombphipps/

In this week’s episode, Vicky chats with Raja Sharif. Raja is the Founder and CEO of FarmaTrust, creating innovative solutions for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries with their Blockchain technology. They discuss Raja’s journey to entrepreneurship from a Law background and the lessons, successes and failures learnt along the way!  “A Moment with” uncovers candid conversations between leading entrepreneurs, engineers, innovators and changemakers. We will dive into their success stories, lessons learnt and much more!   You can follow @Bath Entrepreneurs on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter!  Raja Sharif is the Founder and CEO of FarmaTrust. Raja is driving the company’s vision and mission of creating innovative solutions for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries to protect consumers of medicines and create efficiencies in the industry. By using Blockchain technology, FarmaTrust is creating a transparent, auditable, secure, global system to track genuine pharmaceutical products, providing confidence to patients and medical practitioners worldwide. Raja is a UK qualified barrister, he has been General Counsel and Board Member of a number of European companies, with over 20 years business experience in the global media and technology companies.