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10th November 2009 - The Next Big Thing - Members-only Emerging Talent Supper with Charlie Hoult

The Next Big Thing - Members-only Emerging Talent Supper with Charlie Hoult

The final in our series of emerging talent suppers for this year, we introduce Entrepreneurs' Forum members to a hugely successful serial entrepreneur.

Charlie Hoult's business CV reads like a who's who of top firms from the marketing, digital and global media sectors.

In his current role sitting as non-executive director with various businesses, Charlie advises on new business activity, fund raising, growth strategy, business planning and mergers.  During dinner he will also discuss his latest and most exciting venture, Hoult's Yard, the Newcastle office complex co-run by Charlie and his father Fred.

What separates Charlie from the "usual" entrepreneur-CEO-type is his relaxed, empowering leadership style - which works well alongside a "federation of entrepreneurs."It's this inherent entrepreneurial flair that has made him incredibly successful in a professional capacity and during dinner, Charlie will share with our guests his expertise and experience ranging from the power of networking (an area he is well qualified in!) to the dot.com era.

Held quarterly, our emerging talent dinners are unique in that they offer the opportunity to our less experienced entrepreneurs to come together and not only listen and learn from one of their peers but also share their accumulated experiences under Chatham House Rules of confidentiality.

With limited places we urge you to book your place today.

More about Charlie....
 
Before joining the family business in Newcastle, Charlie built marketing services group Loewy from 20 to 400 people in four years, exiting in May 2008. The group had annualised turnover of £50m and profits of £5 million per annum. Charlie led a 2007 fundraising of £16 million in structured finance to continue growth through merger and acquisition. This growth path made Loewy ready to take on some of the majors in marketing, like M&C Saatchi or Engine Group.
 
Charlie has made his mark in several areas of media, marketing and publishing: he was a dotcom entrepreneur (profiled by the FT magazine at the time), wrote a book on green issues in 1992, did a stint as the Evening Standard diary column writer and was even a big nightclub promoter at college. His event was, with some pride, named Time Out's Worst Named Nightclub of 1992!
 
Charlie featured on BBC2's Jeremy Vine show and in the Evening Standard in defence of the 2012 Olympic Logo and was recently profiled in PR Week as "the next Martin Sorrell" and in Design Week's 2008 Hot 50.
 
He made his mark building Incisive Research, then a newsletter publishing business, which he sold to the firm subsequently floated as Incisive Media plc. He built up a profitable serviced office and incubator business, Metrocube, from 1999 to 2002 with investors Luke Johnson and Joel Cadbury. Simultaneously, he spent ten years expanding corporate design specialists, Wilson Harvey, which he brought into Loewy in 2004.
 
The Hoult family has been involved in entrepreneurial activities in the North-East of England for several generations. Charlie's great-grandfather founded a transport business in Byker which operated the first weekly truck deliveries from Newcastle to London and became a Top Ten UK furniture remover. His grandfather acquired and ran the famous and collectible Malings Pottery and his father has transformed the furniture depot Hoults Yard into Newcastle's new media hotspot. Most recently, father-and-son have worked on a new facility at Hoults Yard -The Kiln office space.
Charlie is past Chairman of the Next Generation committee at the Institute of Family Business, attached to London Business School. He studied at Manchester and Cardiff Universities.
 
Venue: Clock Tower Café, Hoults Estate, Newcastle
Time: 6.30pm – 9.30pm

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14th September 2010

Crystal Clear Business - Members-only Focus Dinner with Arnab Basu, Founding CEO of Kromek

From Young Entrepreneur of the Year to acquisitions in the US.   From £500K to £48million in 7 years and an expert in raising finance.   Hear...

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21st September 2010

How Leaders Inspire High Performance Teams - half day masterclass with business consultant Jeff Grout

Contrary to popular practice, building a high performance team takes a lot more than bringing together a group of talented people and hoping for the best....


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