November 2011 

Issue No: 28 

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In this issue:
Featured Chairman - John Scholes
Featured Partner Merrill Lynch - The Great Global Shift: New World New Rules
Events Survey - your input required
Membership & Lunches offer
Anne Glover event review
Post your Board Opportunity
All I want for Christmas
Anne Glover
Featured Chairman - John Scholes
John Scholes has been involved in IT throughout his professional career. Since leaving university with a maths degree and a masters specialising in cosmology and astrophysics, he has careered around the industry driven by a fundamental belief in serendipity. He's never quite got the hang of how career and plan could coexist in the same sentence.

He has taken technical, managerial, marketing, and financial roles, in markets that include computational physics, defence and aerospace, software engineering, retail and loyalty solutions, and cloud based services. He has lived and worked both in the UK and in the USA, running both IT companies and corporate development advisory companies.
 
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Anne Glover
Featured Partner - Merrill Lynch
As part of the Chairman's Network partnership programme, Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management  will be regularly contributing investment and wealth management expertise via educational events, seminars and articles, the first of which focuses on risk, opportunity and the seismic changes in the balance of power driving today's markets: 

The Great Gloal Shift - New World, New Rules
From the indebtedness of the West to the rapid rise of emerging markets, the financial landscape has fundamentally changed, challenging some of our most basic assumptions about investing. Visit the Merrill Lynch Wealth Management website to learn how to adapt your investment strategy to the new global paradigm. 
 
Events Survey - your input required
We would very much appreciate your feedback on/input to our events schedule - please take this short anonymous survey to help us plan the type of events that our members want.
2012 Events Schedule & Speakers

, we are delighted to announce a great line-up of prestigious speakers for our 2012 events - early registration is advisable!

 

CN Logo with url7 February - Lara Morgan, Founder & ex CEO of international business Pacific Direct Group Ltd which she built over 17 years before selling a majority share 99% holding of the company for £20 million in 2008. Founder of Company Shortcuts - a source of practical advice and frameworks to enable business leaders to achieve accelerated growth. Register
 

CN Logo with url26 April - Sir David Michels, Deputy Chairman Marks & Spencer, former Deputy Chairman EasyJet, Chairman London & Capital.  Sir David has spent 50 years in the hotel and gaming industries, living and working all over the world. Currently Chairman of London & Capital and President of the British Hospitality Association. Pre-register
 

CN Logo with url20 June - Nigel Kershaw OBE, Chief Executive of Big Issue Invest & Group Chairman of The Big Issue Company. Big Issue Invest, part of The Big Issue Group, is the UK's leading innovative provider of finance to social enterprises that are providing ground-breaking business solutions that seek to dismantle poverty. Pre-register  

 

CN Logo with url20 September - Jos White, Partner at Notion Capital and co-Founder of RBR Networks, Star and MessageLabs. Jos has co-founded three businesses (RBR Networks, Star and MessageLabs) turning them all into market leaders each with revenues in excess of $100M and a combined value creation of nearly $1B. Pre-register
 

Members' events:

 

29 November - NoSQL roadshow - The Classic Car Club, London
Organised by Erlang Solutions & Trifork, this half day seminar (13.00 - 15.00) will cover: NoSQL and Highly Scalable Systems - The Theory, The Practice and the Case Studies. Free to Chairman's Network
Members using the code NoSQLvipLON2011 before November 25th.  

 

Membership & Lunches Offers - expire 31.12.11 

Non-Members - join the network and attend 4 x 2012 lunch events for the price of 3
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The discounted Members' rate for our 2012 lunches is currently £159 (as opposed to £199 for non-Members). We are offering 4 lunches together with an annual membership for a total of £675, giving you a saving of £160 (if you joined and subsequently booked these lunches separately). Compare this to the total cost of 4 lunch events of £796 if you aren't a member and it makes sense to join now. View membership benefits.

Existing Members - 4 x 2012 lunch events for £599
The current discounted Members/Fellows rate for our 2012 lunches is £159. We are offering 4 lunches for £599, giving Members a further discount of £37 when booked together before the end of December 2011.


These offers cannot be booked via the website - please email us before the end of December to participate

Anne Glover Event Review 
CN Logo with urlAmadeus Capital Partners' co-Founder and Chief Executive Anne Glover addressed delegates at the 3 November networking lunch event. Her address covered 'SME finance in difficult times' and provoked some interesting questions from delegates.

View our videos on YouTube View an extract from Anne's speech
Post your Board opportunity on CN Appointments to access a diverse range of skills and experience

 

Following the recent recommendation to increase the diversity of UK boards at all levels - including SMEs - The Chairman's Network is in a unique position to offer you/your portfolio access to 5000+ senior Chairmen, CEOs and Non-Executive Directors of SMEs across all sectors via the CN Appointments Service.
 
Advertising your Chairman/CEO/Non-Executive role on Chairman's Network Appointments will give you:
  • A full page job profile on The Chairman's Network website
  • A dedicated posting within The Chairman's Network LinkedIn Group (600+ members)
  • A dedicated slot in the CN monthly newsletter to members (distribution 5000+)
  • Access to a broad pool of diverse talent
  • Investing and non-investing Board members 
A dedicated advertising page on Chairman's Network Appointments until the role is filled will cost just £499.

All I want for Christmas - shop online this Christmas and raise money for Fredericks Foundation 

 

CN Logo with urlGive as You Live - thousand of stores will donate a percentage of your Cristmas spend to Fredericks Foundation - the charity that helps disadvantaged people to set up, or expand their own business as a means to achieve financial independence - when you shop online with them - including iTunes, Boden, Sky, play.com, John Lewis etc. Register
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