Investing, Influence and the ‘Side-Hustle’

King's Entrepreneurship Lab

Join us for an insightful session on scaling up, the importance of personal investing, and ‘plantrepreneurship’ (your new side hustle maybe)

King's College, Cambridge (Chetwynd Room 6.00 pm drinks, 6.30 talk and Zoom starts)

Join us on Thursday 24 February for an insightful session by Cliff Weight, Mark Bentley and Paul de Gruch on scaling up, the importance of personal investing, and a continuation of our ‘plantrepreneur’ discussion which will delve into social influence and the ‘side-hustle’.WHEN: Thursday 24 February 2022 from 6 pm till 8.15 pmEVENT OUTLINE:6.00 – 6.30 wine reception6.30 – 7.45 talk (also via Zoom)7.45 – 8.15 mingle and wineWHERE: King’s College Cambridge (Chetwynd Room for drinks and Keynes Lecture Theatre for the talks), dress code is casual.SPEAKERS:Cliff WeightCliff Weight has been a stock market investor since 1984. He now focuses on smaller growth companies. He has 30+ years’ experience as a remuneration consultant advising many FTSE 350, Small Cap and AIM companies. He is the author of the Directors’ Remuneration Handbook and ShareSoc’s Remuneration Guide. Cliff leads ShareSoc’s Policy and Campaigning activities.Mark BentleyMark Bentley has been a full-time stock market investor since 2004, having pursued investment as a rewarding hobby for 20 years previously. Most of Mark’s career was spent in the I.T. industry beginning with Logica in 1980, where he worked on the Giotto Halley’s Comet intercept mission for the European Space Agency amongst other projects. In 1987 Mark started his own IT services business, Anvil Technology Ltd, which he ran successfully for 14 years. He is an active investor, attending many company meetings each year and publishes his findings on a number of investment orientated web sites.Paul de GruchyPaul de Gruchy has a background in law, latterly as Head of Legal for BNP Paribas Offshore, where he helped establish a large number of listed investment funds. Before that he spent time developing financial services policy and legislation for the regulator and government in Jersey.Since moving to the UK in 2016, he has focused on investing, running a high conviction portfolio of small cap, cash generative stocks that are overlooked by the market but have potential for significant growth. Paul is also a non-executive director of GCP Infrastructure Investments, a FTSE 250 listed investment company, which gives him a direct understanding of the responsibilities of the modern board.•	Part 2 of our ‘plantrepreneur’ program looks at social influence and the exponential growth of the rare plant collector community, which has made plant ‘side-hustling’ a feasible income generator, especially over the global coronavirus pandemic. We will hear from Jonny Balchandani aka @thebeardedplantaholic of Instagram fame. Jonny will share their experience and tips for growing your social network. On the panel with Jonny will be @trojanking9, a marketing guru turned YouTube plant educator, and @growtropicals who started up their thriving rare plant business in the middle of lockdown through to exhibiting at the 2021 RHS Chelsea Flower Show.Those wishing to join virtually are also most welcome to participate via Zoom.

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