Nicci is a serial entrepreneur and one of the most successful and well-respected transgender global executives. She is also a presenter, commentator, and comedienne. She is a recipient of FT 100 Leading LGBT+ Executives, FT Heroes 2019, 2017, and 2020 National LGBT Awards top 10 inspirational leaders awards.

Diarmuid O’Brien (Chief Executive of Cambridge Enterprise) delves into the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Cambridge. He practically introduces each element of world-leading Cambridge cluster and how can entrepreneurs of all stages leverage it. The best centralised introduction a decentralised ecosystem you can get.

Sir Martin Sorrell is Founder and Executive Chairman of S4 Capital plc, a new age/new era, purely digital advertising and marketing services business (listed on the LSE with over 7,000 people and market cap in excess of $4bn).

Sir Martin was a Founder and CEO of WPP for 33 years, building it from a £1 million “shell” company in 1985 into the world’s largest advertising and marketing services company. When Sir Martin left in April 2018, WPP had a market capitalisation of over £16 billion, revenues of over £15 billion, profits of approximately £2 billion and over 200,000 people in 113 countries. He was ranked as the second-best CEO in the world by the Harvard Business Review in 2017 and was nominated as one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People.

Panel with successful investors (David Stredder, Karin Schulte, Mike Dennis & Modwenna Rees-Mogg) chaired by Sheryl Cuisia, King’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence (Lent 2022). Read speakers bios here.

Jago McKenzie is Head of Region (UK, Ireland, and Nordics) and the international unit economics/pricing lead at Remitly, a global FinTech providing financial services to migrants. Remitly was founded in Seattle in 2011 and recently listed on the Nasdaq at an >$7B valuation. He will talk about experience of working in an early stage start-up (team under 10 people) all the way to IPO.

Hermann (KC 1973) is one of the key people in the Cambridge Cluster, with ties to more than 200 companies – and we are incredibly happy that he agreed to give us a small talk about technology that will shape the world of tomorrow. Hermann is a co-founder and active partner of Amadeus Capital Partners, a key Cambridge VC. A serial entrepreneur, he was also one of the founders of Acorn Computers and ARM, a Cambridge based microchip manufacturer. He will talk about entrepreneurship and “4 key innovations” (AI and ML, Smart Contracts and Blockchain, Synthetic Biology, and Quantum Computing) and their impact.

The official launch of the King’s Entrepreneurship Lab with a panel discussion chaired by Mike Proctor (Provost, King’s College, Cambridge). Speakers include Gemma Chandratillake (KC 1997), Malcolm McKenzie (Chair of the Lab Advisory Board, KC 1977), Andy Neely (Pro-Vice-Chancellor: Enterprise and Business Relations, University of Cambridge), and Sarah Wood (KC 1992).