We are having our Summer respite, so thank you very much to everybody who attended one of our Series 2 events, we hope you enjoyed it and met some interesting people!

We are back, reinvigorated, in September in the following cities:

• Edinburgh - 2nd October
• Oxford - 8th October
• Birmingham - 22nd October
• Manchester - 23rd October
• London - 3rd December

Connecting local exciting businesses with top-level senior talent. Pitching for Management enables diverse fast-growing companies to pitch for top-level executives to join their teams for salary, sweat equity, commission and/or bonus schemes. So if you are a company looking to build/expand your management team or an executive looking for a new career challenge, Pitching for Management is the perfect event for you.

To view all events: http://angelnewsevents.eventbrite.com/?s=3240613 or for more information call: 01761 452248

A series of events to allow successful companies in three Launchpad competitions to showcase themselves to potential investors will be happening this Autumn.  

The Technology Strategy Board's Launchpad competitions are designed to support innovative SMEs in developing clusters around the UK by offering grants for innovative R&D projects, combined with a structured programme of business and investment support offered through a local 'cluster champion'. 

On 9th October, companies from the Harwell Space Launchpad, who will share £1.1m in grant funding, will showcase themselves to local investors at the Satellite Applications Catapult in Harwell. 

Then on 23rd October, companies from the Digital & Creative Clyde Launchpad, who will share £620,000 in grant funding for their projects, will be showcased at the Radisson Blu hotel in Glasgow. 

And on 6th November it will be the turn of companies from the Materials & Manufacturing North West Launchpad, who share £1.5m in grant funding, to present at an event at the Sci-Tech campus in Daresbury. 

Altogether over 40 innovative technology companies will be showcased at these events, offering some exciting opportunities for business angel, venture capital firms and other funders to consider. 

Any suitable potential investors who are interesting in attending these events should contact Nigel Walker, head of Access to Finance at the Technology Strategy Board.

The way the executive world works is changing - more and more senior level business people are choosing to work 'Independently', rather than being permanent on somebody's pay roll. Where do they go to find work?  How do they make the most out of their flexible career?  What are the perks and the difficulties with working off payroll? And who can help them every step of the way?

The Great British Workforce Revolution is a new and important conference aimed at these Independent senior level people looking for new routes to market, new markets and new contacts.

Come and hear from the key influencers in the executive recruitment market, and the key solutions providers as to how to make the most out of this new Independent Executive landscape.

The event is a Joint Venture between Interim Management specialist, Russam GMS, and AngelNews.

You can find out more and book your place at www.workforcerevolution.co.uk. 
Please visit: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/7273221401 or email Fuchsia on[email protected]

Modwenna Rees-Mogg, the founder of www.pitching4management.com, the leading live recruitment business connecting ambitious growth companies with experienced executives, will be explaining how to exploit the evolving trend for C-level executives to build a portfolio career combing paid for part time executive positions, with value added roles which are remunerated on a deferred basis with equity and bonuses and typically unpaid roles such as mentoring and charity trusteeships.

Modwenna will explain about the new trend (where just under 50% of working people are no longer in a full time role) and the key issues to consider including:
·         How to plan your portfolio career
·         Where to find opportunities
·         Negotiation tactics with current and future employers
·         How to make a portfolio career more tax effective
·         How to under promise and over deliver
·         Legal and ethical obligations

Also speaking will be Alan White, Chief Executive of N Brown Group plc.

To find out more and to book your tickets, please contact Andrea Lowe on 0161 247 7634 or email [email protected]

Engage Invest Exploit (EIE) is Scotland's premier investor showcase for the best companies spinning out of Scotland's world class universities and start-ups from the wider Scottish entrepreneurial eco-system.

Informatics Ventures is now bringing EIE to London with twelve of the most ambitious and high growth potential Scottish-based entrepreneurs, to meet with investors looking to back such businesses.

An afternoon of key note speakers, presentations by the companies, and a highly charged debate on how technology is helping investors to cross borders will be followed by a celebratory dinner at which attendees can network with each other and the presenting companies.

For more information and to book your ticket, please visit:http://eielondon2013.eventbrite.co.uk/

26th November 2013
200 Aldersgate, St Paul's, London
9am-5pm + drinks afterwards

The VCT & EIS Investor Forum is the largest national live gathering of private investors and venture fund managers in the UK.  Come and join us at the 4th Investor Forum which promises to be bigger and better than ever before.

Highlights include:

Keynote speeches from:
- Martha Lane Fox
- Sarah Adams Head of Enterprise Investment at HM Treasury
- Patrick Reeve, Managing Partner at Albion Ventures

Debates on:
- The truth behind EIS and VCT statistics
- Attracting the next generation of VCT and EIS Investors
- Investment Risk Management
- Tax efficient investing all the year round 
- Seed EIS one year on

You can find out more and book your place at www.thevctandeisinvestorforum.com