LET THE MISSION BEGIN
We’re on a mission just like you: you want to build a successful business and change the world in a meaningful way, and our mission is to help you.
About Us
OVERVIEW
WHY
OVERVIEW
Entrepreneurial Giving is a movement to nurture a new generation of purpose-led businesses. What starts with a simple pledge to donate a percentage of their exit proceeds to charity, becomes a powerful network.
By creating an international community of like-minded entrepreneurs, it encourages positive behaviour and gives them the tools they need to create positive change.
We get entrepreneurs: you’re busy, have bills to pay and you just want to focus on making your business a success. That’s why this isn’t just about ‘giving’. Purpose links to profit. We believe (and we’ve got research to prove it) that entrepreneurial giving and entrepreneurial success go hand in hand.
From the talented employees who want to join your journey, or the customers who will love your story and stay loyal to your brand, nothing says different like making a difference.
WHY
We’re on a mission just like you: you want to build a successful business and change the world in a meaningful way. Our mission is to help you do it.
By joining EG you’ll be making a statement to show the world you stand for more than just profit. From the bakers in Birmingham to the start-ups in Shoreditch, it’s clear that purpose is good for your business:
- Stand out amongst your competitors – nothing says different more than making a difference
- Hire better talent and keep them longer – create a culture that makes your staff love Mondays
- Attract an army of loyal customers – supporting good causes makes customers buy from, recommend and switch to your brand (it’s proven!) – growing the bottom line
- Get noticed and read all about it – over 600,000 new businesses start every year in the UK alone. Give your business an angle the media will want to talk about
- Lastly, be soulful! Some say luck isn’t a coincidence…
MEET A FEW EXAMPLES
Meet some of the fantastic members of the EG network. We call them our Examples for two reasons. First, they run exemplary purpose-driven businesses that are socially, ethically and environmentally responsible. Second, they are examples of our belief that doing good and doing well go hand in hand.
George Hayward
“Twelve Arts manages artists and produces arts projects of scale. We focus on projects that have a positive social and environmental impact on people and places, so EG felt like the perfect fit.”
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Beanie Cox
“We make sure everything Twelve Arts does is embedded with purpose and EG was the perfect fit. Being able to pledge a percentage of the sale of our business to charity made complete sense. We are also very excited about the chance to meet other businesses on the EG network and feel there is a real opportunity to share ideas with likeminded organisations to drive positive change across many industries.”
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MEET OUR GURUS
Our gurus come from a range of business backgrounds and are leaders in their fields. They offer invaluable insights, support our community and champion EG across the globe.
Maurice Ostro OBE
Maurice Ostro OBE, KFO is a serial entrepreneur and philanthropist who has fused these two strands of his career in building EG. Maurice created the biggest supplier of ice cream to the aviation industry as well as developing new methods for airline catering now being used around the world. He then ran a London Stock Exchange listed company after it acquired two of his companies. He founded an award winning charitable Foundation with his wife Katy and they also work together in running the world’s largest supplier of Blue Topaz gemstones. He created the Faiths Forum for London & Collaboration House and is Patron of the Council of Christians and Jews. He has advised London’s Metropolitan Police, Mayor & UK Prime Ministers and is responsible for delivering the UK Government’s initiative on Strengthening Faith Institutions.
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Lord Young
With a career spanning politics and business, Lord David Young has lead a number of successful projects – spanning technology, security, philanthropy, property, oil and gas. In October 2010, Lord Young was appointed Enterprise Advisor to the Prime Minister, where he published a three-part review on enterprise and small business – the first of its kind since 1971.
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Emma Jones MBE
Emma’s entrepreneurial career started in 2000 when she set up her first business Techlocate, which she successfully sold to Tenon fifteen months later. The experience of starting, growing and selling a business from home gave Emma the inspiration for Enterprise Nation, which launched in 2006 as a home business website. The company has expanded to include 75,000 members who benefit from business books, events and funding. In 2011, Emma launched StartUp Britain, the national campaign to encourage more people to start a business and support growth. In June 2012, Emma was awarded an MBE for Services to Enterprise.
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Charles Wigoder
A telecommunications entrepreneur, Charles qualified as an accountant with KPMG. In 1988, he set up Cellular Communications Corporation, which created the world’s first virtual mobile network, People’s Phone. The company was acquired by Vodafone in 1996. In 1998, Charles joined Telecom Plus shortly after its formation, which trades online as Utility Warehouse.
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Michael Hayman MBE
Michael is co-founder of London-based communication consultancy firm, Seven Hills. He also has a strong history campaigning for entrepreneurs: Chariman of Entrepreneurs at the private bank Coutts & Co, co-founder of StartUp Britain. co-founder of the Duke of York’s E20 advocacy group for entrepreneurs, Advisory Board member for National Business Awards and Honorary Fellow at the University of Cambridge Judge School Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning.
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Philip Kirkpatrick
Having spent his career with legal firm BWB, he became head of the Charity and Social Enterprise Team in 2011. He advises charities and social enterprises on numerous aspects of charity, corporate and commercial law, and has extensive experience across a range of business actions. His main areas of work are constitutional and governance, collaborative working and mergers, Charity Commission, social finance, commercial ventures, fundraising and internal disputes. Philip has helped to ensure that our pledge is a top-quality legal document.
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Rajeeb Dey MBE
Rajeeb is passionate about helping people connect to opportunities and flourish in their careers. Most recently he launched Learnerbly – a workplace learning platform powered by industry experts. Prior to this he founded Enternships, a portal which has connected students and graduates to internships and graduate jobs in over 7000 startups and fast growing businesses for which he was named the “02 X Young Entrepreneur of the Year” and the youngest recipient of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion in 2013. Rajeeb is also the Co-Founder of StartUp Britain, a national entrepreneurship campaign launched in 2011 and is a vocal supporter of social enterprise, serving as a Trustee of UnLtd, the Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs for 10 years. Rajeeb was appointed the world’s youngest Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2012 aged just 26. He was named as one of the 1,000 Most Influential People in London by The Evening Standard as well as being recognised in prestigious publications “Who’s Who” and “Debrett’s People of Today”. He was appointed Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queen’s 90th Birthday Honours List in June 2016 for services to Entrepreneurship.
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Lord Leigh
After a short spell in UK banking, Lord Leigh first joined Deloitte Haskins & Sells where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. He transferred to the corporate tax department where he further qualified with the Chartered Institute of Taxation. In early 1986 Lord Leigh established Deloitte’s Mergers and Acquisitions Group and developed an expertise in company sales. In May 1988 he left to set up Cavendish Corporate Finance. He is a frequent lecturer, author and broadcaster on mergers and acquisitions and has written “Good Practice Guideline: Selling a Business”, published by the Institute of Chartered Accountants. Lord Leigh served as the Chairman of the Faculty of Corporate Finance of the ICAEW, which represents some 5,000 corporate financiers. In 2008 he was awarded the Faculty’s Outstanding Achievement in Corporate Finance award and served on the Takeover Panel. Lord Leigh was a Vice President of M&A International Inc, the global advisory M&A firm, and predecessor to Oaklins. He was elevated to the Peerage as Lord Leigh of Hurley in 2013 and speaks regularly in the House of Lords on business, finance and tax matters.
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Chris Sanger
Chris Sanger is Global Head of Tax Policy at EY, leading the firm’s Tax Policy practice which develops proposals for changes in tax policy, across the spectrum of taxation. He is a member of the Financial Secretary to the Treasury’s Forum of Tax Professionals where he advises on making tax policy. Chris has wide-ranging experience at a senior level advising governments internationally on technical policy options, tax legislation, economic matters and fiscal costings. He advised the incoming UK Government on their business tax proposals before the 1997 election, and subsequently, from 1998 to 2001, joined HM Treasury as Head of Business Tax Policy. Since leaving HM Treasury, Chris has continued to advise governments, private sector groups, industry associations, individual companies and not-for-profit organisations on tax policy. He is Chairman of the Tax Policy Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales, and a member of the Management of Taxes Committee of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, the Institute of Fiscal Studies Tax Law Review Committee, and the United Nations’ Subcommittee on Extractive Industries Taxation Issues for Developing Countries.
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Lord Bilimoria
Lord Karan Bilimoria CBE, DL is the founder of Cobra Beer, Chairman of the Cobra Beer Partnership Limited and of Molson Coors Cobra India, both joint ventures with the global brewing company, Molson Coors. He is the Founding Chairman of the UK India Business Council, a Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London, a former Chancellor of Thames Valley University (now the University of West London); he was the youngest University Chancellor in the UK when appointed. In 2014, he was appointed as the 7th Chancellor of the University of Birmingham and was the first Indian born Chancellor of a Russell Group University in Great Britain. Karan was Senior Non-Executive Director of the Booker Group PLC, the FTSE 250 Company of Booker Prize fame from 2007 – 2016; he is one of the first two visiting entrepreneurs at the University of Cambridge; he is a founding member of the Prime Minister of India’s Global Advisory Council. In 2006, Karan Bilimoria was appointed the Lord Bilimoria of Chelsea, making him the first ever Zoroastrian Parsi to sit in the House of Lords. In 2008 he was awarded the Pravasi Bhartiya Samman by the President of India. He is an honorary fellow of Sidney Sussex College Cambridge and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Judge Business School, Cambridge University. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young and graduated in law from the University of Cambridge. He is also an alumnus of the Cranfield School of Management, the London Business School and the Harvard Business School. In 2015, Karan Bilimoria was appointed President of the UK Council for International Student Affairs (UKCISA).
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Elizabeth Slee
Having trained as a journalist, Elizabeth now works at Enterprise Nation and Smart Pension, helping to get its members and issues facing small business on the news agenda. She is a PR specialist, working in media relations, creating PR opportunities and brand building through good stories.
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Mustafa Field MBE
Mustafa Field MBE, Director of Faiths Forum for London, Former Director of Mosque & Imams National advisory board from 2010 – 2013. He was awarded an MBE in 2012 for his efforts in strengthen integration and social cohesion. He is a Fellow for the John Smith Trust and is involved in strengthening the rule of law and countering sectarianism.
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Isabel Kelly
Isabel Kelly understands the strategic and operational needs of business as well as how to make social impact. She spent 11 years at Amnesty International before joining Salesforce Foundation where, for over 12 years, she grew both non-profit sales and philanthropy programs as its International Director. She is currently a Resident Expert at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the Said Business School, Oxford University. In 2002 Salesforce founder Marc Benioff hired Isabel to develop the Salesforce Foundation internationally. She founded Profit with Purpose – an organisation offering consulting services to companies of any size that want to use their resources for good, and to non-profits who want to engage better with companies.
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Jason Holt CBE
A former lawyer who took control of his family business in 1999. Jason founded non-profit Holts Academy in 2000 to ensure the longevity of craftsmanship and skills for the industry, and as such he was awarded a Commander of British Empire (CBE) for services to the Jewellery Sector and Apprenticeships on the New Years Honours list 2015.
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Rafia Qureshi
Rafia is the Executive Director of The Womanity Foundation. Rafia has over 12 years of experience in the field of social and economic development, working both in the private and public sectors. Most recently, Rafia was with Gatsby Africa, the Africa programmes division of the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, where she managed the strategic review process of the Foundation and led the development of a new practice focusing on portfolio impact and learning. Prior to Gatsby, Rafia was at J.P. Morgan for six years, where she oversaw the JPMorgan Chase Foundation’s social investment programme in emerging markets, and supported the development of the Foundation’s broader strategic and operational development in Europe, Middle East and Africa. During her time at J.P. Morgan, Rafia expanded the Foundation’s footprint in the Middle East and Sub Saharan Africa, designing the Foundation’s largest investments in these regions and garnering their support by private and public sector players. Before J.P. Morgan, Rafia spent two years working with an international development consulting firm focusing on USAID and DFID-funded private sector development programmes in South Asia. Rafia’s career started in the venture capital space, working for Dow Jones venture capital research, and a start-up venture capital firm in London. Rafia holds a BA in International Relations and Business Administration from Boston University and an MSc in Population and Development from the London School of Economics.
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