We are delighted to announce that ENB will be having its second meeting of 2009 on Thursday 19th February, As with January’s meeting, we will start with a seminar with some great speakers from 19.30 – 20.30 (pre-registration essential – please see below) before starting our regular social meeting (no pre-registrayion required) from 20.30, with free cava generously provided by our hosts, the Hotel Casanova.
For the seminar at 19.30 we will learn of the entrepreneurial experiences of our two guest speakers:
ADDITIONAL PLACES NOW AVAILABLE - MANY THANKS TO THE HOTEL CASANOVA FOR ALLOWING US TO INCREASE THE NUMBERS DUE TO THE HIGH DEMAND
Please let us know as soon as possible if you would like to attend.
Damien Harris, the entrepreneur behind the European launch of Go Car, those tiny yellow two-seater talking cars you will have seen and stared at open-mouthed as they whizz around the streets of Barcelona (and Lisbon, and soon to be Valencia, with other European cities to follow). www.gocartours.es
Jonathan Dykes, who is Chief Executive of 12 companies operating in Mexico, Spain, Colombia and the UK, where he runs the International House chain of language schools and other business, including an online language school. He has extensive experience setting up and running business in widely different geographical, cultural, business and economic contexts, and will be sharing his experiences and advice with us. www.ihls-group.com and www.netlanguages.com.
This will be followed by our social meeting in the hotel bar from 20.30 where we will be calling upon a selection of members to present themselves with a 2-minute ‘elevator pitch’.
Schedule:
19.30 – 20.30 Talks from our invited entrepreneurs, followed by Q&A session
20.30 onwards Social Meeting (no need to pre-register), including 2-minute pitches
Location:
Hotel Casanova, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 559 (corner of Gran Via and Casanova, metro Universitat or Urgell)
The talk is limited to 30 attendees, so please sign up now so as not to miss out. To book your place, please contact us now on info@networkbarcelona.com We ask all those coming to the talk to arrive by 19.20 so that we can start punctually.
We look forward to seeing you there.
The ENB Team
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Additional information on our speakers:
Damien Harris: is Australian but has lived in Europe for over 10 years since graduation. He started his career in a Swedish Publishing House, focusing on Direct Marketing, particularly in developing markets. After Sweden he first specialized in Eastern Europe. Following 3 years based in Poland and growing the sales to over €10 million the opportunity arose to tackle the Iberian market and he moved to Spain in 2001.
In Spain Damien discovered his entrepreneurial gene and changed firstly from employee to independent consultant and simultaneously started testing concepts in the tourism market. As a consultant he applied his experience as a specialist at geographical expansion. Conducting market entry research and implementation for various companies in Spain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, Mexico, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia and India.
Following a personal decision to stop living out of a suitcase Damien focused on finding a new business opportunity that could be based in Barcelona. Through the newsletter Springwise the idea to bring GoCar to Europe, starting in Barcelona was born. GoCar Barcelona launched in May 2008. www.gocartours.es
Sightseeing guided by GPS: The GoCar is a tiny yellow two-seater that talks to its passengers, showing them the sites and providing running commentary, and never losing its way.
www.springwise.com/tourism_travel/sightseeing_guided_by_gps/
Jonathan Dykes: holds a degree in philosophy from the University of Sussex as well as a number of qualifications in the field of English language teaching. He spent the first few years of his professional life teaching English in a number of different countries before leaping into the deep end of language school management.
He is currently Chief Executive of the IHLS Group (www.ihls-group.com) which consists of twelve companies based in four different countries (Spain, Mexico, Colombia and the UK): ten of these companies are language schools; one is an agency dedicated to sending students to study abroad and the other, Net Languages, is a Web-based language school (www.netlanguages.com) which teaches students from all over the world.
Jonathan is the founder of several of the companies in the IHLS Group including the language schools based in Mexico, Colombia and the UK, as well as Net Languages (which is based in Barcelona). He therefore has experience of starting companies in different parts of the world, in widely different cultural and economic contexts.
LIST OF ATTENDEES:
1. Monica Krüger
2. Lauren Gonzalez
3. Lee Gonzalez
4. Markus Ruf
5. Nicholas Chettle
6. Jason Thompson
7. Pamela Thompson
8. Nadia Younes
9. Sandra Lund
10. Josephine Anagor
11. Nunu Roney
12. Catherine Hart
13. Birgette Knaus
14. Ania Honess
15. Lilian Mateu
16. Zara Janmohamed
17. Ingrid Contreras
18. Stephen Mitchell
19. Maria Ntuk-Ideu
20. Andrea Landmann
21. Alejandra McKelligan
22. Nick Lesser
23. Tony Anagor
24. Lucy Davis
25. Karen Holladay
26. Ramon Fauria
27. Nicole Trad
28. Claire Hapke
29. Ankur Maheshwary
30. Neus Coll
31. Rocio Espartero
32. Martin Méndez
33. Brian Byrne
34. Daniel Lesser
35/36. Beata Gonzalez Blanco + 1
37. Alex Martin
38. Mark Webster
39. Marcus Lind
40. Jules Kovisars
41, Scott Doane
42. Alejandra Sánchez
43. Sandra Mc Nicol
44. Alicia Alfonso
45. Nancy Yeh
46. Pablo Alvarez
47. Mark James
48. Uldaric Bertinotti
49. Anna Macià
50. Monica Salgado
51. Kwamena Herbstein
52. Chauncey Zalken
53. Peter Crosby
54. Bénédicte Reynaud
55. Gaetan Robert
56. Ayodeji Akinnuroju
57. Alberto Denia
58. Judi Oshowole
59. Ruairi O’Donnchadha
60. Ouali Benmeziane
61. Barbara Ordoñez
62. Nick Place
63. Felipe Araujo
64. David Coote
65. Anders Schonberg
66. Lídia Aguilera
67. Joey Buter
68. Sònia Viver
69. Luciana Custodio
70. Ludmilla Mastromonaco
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