FOUNDER & CEO

Compere is the only intro creators will ever need. We offer a CEO-as-a-service / Co-founder-as-a-service for creators, supporting with strategic direction and business operations.

Here, I work with talent directly through a couple of service offerings:

• Co-founder-as-a-service: we partner with creators to incept and deliver new businesses that align with the core values and interests of talent. We'll get together a project team that helps bring ideas to life, and use our expertise to help talent transition to being entrepreneurs as well as creators. We believe that creating businesses that leverage a talent's audience is the best way to monetise for the long-term.

• CEO-as-a-service: we partner with talent to run business operations, and deliver commercial strategy advice, connections and deals that can support long-term careers. We will help you find new revenue streams, and procure relationships that develop your brand. We distinguish ourselves from traditional talent management companies by seeing our role as one that has a long-term vested interest in your holistic career development from the perspective of a "CEO" rather than an "agent".

Email: kelwyn@compere.co

FOUNDER & CEO

Espers helps influential talent build their passion portfolios as their personal Chief of Staff. We support influencers and celebrities to collaborate with, and invest in startups as well as assisting with passion projects and ventures.

Here, I work with talent to concept, curate and deliver their passion portfolios of choice:

• Landscaping opportunities available to angel invest in the sectors that appeal to them

• Negotiating terms with founders on their behalf to ensure a meaningful equity involvement

• Identifying strategic areas of opportunity for portfolio diversification across equity opportunities with brands, and digital assets

• Supporting with a “for-good” portfolio of causes they care about

Email: kelwyn@espers.co

MANAGING PARTNER

Qiao helps buyers and sellers to obtain value through a M&A consulting service. We typically cover deals in the £1-£50m enterprise value range, which covers small and medium-sized businesses and startups across asset and equity sales. We work at the intersection of trust, adaptability and affordability.

Here, I work with startup founders to prepare their companies for strategic exit opportunities:

• Bespoke and proximal approach for clients - we tailor our approach based on a close relationship with the founder and / or leadership team

• Understanding of opportunity cost - running a small business or M&A team takes considerable effort and expertise; we recognise the burden M&A and fundraising can have and thus prefer short and concise interactions with clear outcomes

• Cost and serviceable client - no client is too small for us to take on, given the right conditions, and we provide amore trusted and comprehensive infrastructure and intimate startup know-how than a traditional boutique

• Network density - we offer a unique density of network across investors (traditional or otherwise), corporates and scaleups that covers the breadth of potential targets / buyers.

Email: kelwyn@qiao.co.uk

Head of PROGRAMME

Campus Capital is a £2m VC firm that builds early stage, high growth investment funds in partnership with some of the UK's leading universities. These funds are based on campus and are part-run by active students with the guidance and supervision of the Campus Capital board. This structure enables us to be part of the fabric of each university, allowing us to nurture entrepreneurial talent and truly add value to companies before and after making an investment.

Here, I work closely with the CEO and COO to help define and improve our student VC programme as we continue to roll it out across the UK and beyond.

• Identify university partners and secure new commercial relationships

• Source potential sponsorship and partnership opportunities and pitching to relevant companies

• Define enrolment strategies to select exceptional, diverse student VCs

• Work with the wider team to activate the Campus Capital stakeholder community

Partner

The Supa Network is made up of a variety of services to suit big businesses, individual creatives or budding entrepreneurs. Supa Campus helps young entrepreneurs scale up their start-ups. Supa Talent is a specialist under 30 in-house creative & recruitment solution.

Here, I supported the founder to:

• Craft and develop proposals for brands

• Conceptualise and deliver special projects

• Decide and execute on company strategy and planning

COMMERCIAL

• Worked on Toshiba Medical Systems deal that was eventually closed by the club

• Sought out new sponsorship opportunities for the club's market-leading commercial team

• Worked alongside sales teams to produce company reports and industry updates

• Acquired significant knowledge of the sports marketing space and commercial strategy initiatives