Be Your Own Boss is set to be a powerful evening of practical advice, solutions and essential information. Our alumni panellists are proven entrepreneurs who have already trodden the path to successfully becoming their own bosses and are keen to share their stories and the key lessons they learned on their ‘journey to success’.
Register your place via Eventbrite (Alumni/guest ticket: £12; Student ticket £7)
Our expert panel will be chaired by Amy le Coz (MBA, 2004), Managing Director at Digital Media Services UK LTD.
Amy is an exceptionally gifted business woman, mother and entrepreneur. Following a dynamic corporate career, over the past decade Amy founded a very successful West End and Los Angeles based media production company that was sold in 2013. Amy is a passionate believer in women in business, free enterprise allied with social responsibility. Amy is also a member of Imperial Court.
Our expert alumni panel will include:
- William Makant (Full-Time MBA, Imperial College Business School, 2008) – Co-Founder & CEO, Plumis
William is a mechanical engineer from Brazil and worked 8 years at Ford on engine combustion development before doing his Full-Time MBA at Imperial in 2008. He founded Plumis with 2 RCA designers at the back of a business plan competition and has since been its CEO. Plumis designs and manufactures residential fire suppression products and was founded on a simple idea: to offer a retrofittable alternative to the fire sprinkler into ordinary homes.
- Andrew Owens (BEng Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, 1984) – Chief Executive, Greenergy
Andrew co-founded Greenergy in 1992 and has led the company from a bedroom start-up to one of the UK’s largest privately-owned companies. Today Greenergy is a leading provider of road fuels, selling nearly 20 billion litres of petrol, diesel and biofuel annually – enough to fuel one in three vehicles in Britain. Expanding internationally, its fuel supply businesses in Canada and Brazil delivered sales growth exceeding 100% in FY17. Andrew has a Chemical Engineering degree from Imperial and retains links with the College’s Business School, where he has lectured on entrepreneurship. Andrew started his career at Esso, initially as design engineer at the Fawley refinery and later moving to London to take responsibility for refinery economics. After leaving Esso, Andrew held a number of commercial and trading positions in the oil industry in Belgium and Switzerland before setting up Greenergy as a “proper job avoidance strategy”.
- Christina Peterson (MSc Innovation Design Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, 2016) – Founder & CEO, LYS Technologies Ltd
Coming from a multidisciplinary background of fashion, design and engineering, Christina Petersen is determined to raise global awareness of circadian rhythm disruption. With a dual Master’s in Innovation Design Engineering from Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art, Petersen is now Founder and CEO of LYS Technologies, a light research and innovation company working with wearable technology to improve and change the indoor generation’s relationship with the light.
Register your place via Eventbrite (Alumni/guest ticket: £12; Student ticket £7)
Key Details
18.30 – 19:00 Registration and networking
19.00 – 19.45 Panel discussion
19.45 – 20.00 Audience interaction
20.00 – 20.25 Q&A
20.25 – 21.30 Networking and refreshments
Dress code: smart casual
Places are limited so register now to avoid disappointment.