Entrepreneurs@Manchester - Piers Linney
This event welcomes Piers Linney, who is well known for his television appearances as an investor on ‘Dragons’ Den’ and ‘The Secret Millionaire’, also has a professional background in law, investment banking and fund management.
- Event Time
- 12 Mar 17:00 - 12 Mar 19:00
- Event Location
- Executive Education Centre room 9, Alliance Manchester Business School, Booth Street West, Manchester, M15 6PB
- Event Type
- Enterprise
Entrepreneurs@Manchester is a series of events hosted by Manchester Enterprise Centre that brings some of the UK’s foremost entrepreneurs to The University of Manchester to share the inspirational lessons they have learned in building their businesses.
This event welcomes Piers Linney, who is well known for his television appearances as an investor on ‘Dragons’ Den’ and ‘The Secret Millionaire’, also has a professional background in law, investment banking and fund management. He has personal and professional experience on all sides of the table as an entrepreneur, adviser, executive or non-executive board member, investor and lender.
Piers is a non-executive director of British Business Bank, the UK's government-owned development bank that has facilitated over £12 billion of financing to improve small and medium-sized business access to debt and equity finance. British Patient Capital was launched in June 2018 to invest a further £2.5bn.
He is listed at #19 on the Financial Times top 100 Ethnic Minority Executives (2018).
In recent years Piers has used his profile, experience and knowledge to champion entrepreneurs and SMEs and is a passionate believer in the importance of SMEs to the success of the UK economy.
Doors open and refreshments served at 5pm for 5.15pm start.
