UCL School of Management officially launched its brand-new Speaker Series earlier this year. Inviting speakers from a range of industries and backgrounds to showcase their experiences and skillsets in a variety of formats, the Speaker Series is designed to welcome authentic experiences, expertise and stories and share them with the wider UCL School of Management community.
In February, we invited three new speakers to participate as part of our Speaker Series. For our first New Technologies & Innovation Speaker Series, we invited none other than Martin Villig, Co-Founder of Bolt to showcase his experience on Tuesday 11 February. Martin is a leading figure in the Estonian start up community with over 25 of experience in entrepreneurship and has co-founded multiple projects including Estonian Founders Society, Garage48 Foundation, Good Deed Education Foundation and kood/Jõhvi. In 2013, Martin developed and launched Bolt, an Estonian mobility super-app with 200 million customers in 600 cities and 50 countries across in Europe and Africa.
For our second event, we invited Geoffrey Pelham-Lane, Co-Founder of Camarco and Chairman of APCO UK to Canary Wharf, where he showcased his knowledge and expertise for the Business Leaders Speaker Series. Geoffrey has almost 40 years of experience in his field, where he began his journey as a Buy-Side Investment Analyst with merchant bank Leopold Joseph.
In 2000, Geoffrey played a key role in defending NatWest against the £21 billion hostile bid by RBS and in 2003, Geoffrey participated in a £25 million management buy-out of Financial Dynamics from Cordiant Capital that was sold just 4 years’ later for $260 million USD. For this event, Geoffrey shared his case study Camarco: From start-up to sale, exploring all the steps that he and his limited company considered and actioned, to grow Camarco into where it is today.
Finishing off with the Business Leaders Speaker Series, we invited Co-Founder of Scope Group, Florian Schoeller. Founded in 2002, Scope Group is one of Europe’s leading rating agencies and has assigned approximately 800 credit ratings to date. In 2023, Scope Group was accepted by the European Central Bank as the first and only European rating agency under the Eurosystem Credit Assessment Framework (ECAF). Since then, the company has continued to expand and increase their shareholder base, securing high-profile investors such as Stefan Quandt, as well as major financial institutions such as AXA, BCPE and Credit Agricole.
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