Monthly Mentor Profile – April 2013

Harry Lipman

How did you start Mentoring/Providing Business Support?

I started providing business support as a practising accountant when becoming a partner in a City firm in December 1976. Since then I have helped owners of many businesses, large and small, local and international, achieve their objectives. Since May 2012 I have regularly participated in the Westminster Business Council business mentoring programme.

What is it that you love about Mentoring?

Helping business owners overcome their commercial and strategic challenges.

Most frequent piece of advice?

Optimise use of owners’ time and cash resources.

What would you say to someone thinking about becoming a Mentor?

Be prepared to give basic and practical guidance. And show you care and are interested in them and their business.

Monthly Mentor Profile – March 2013

Claire Pasquill How did you start Mentoring/Providing Business Support? I ran an event design company for many years and had a successful business but I needed a change. I decided to take a sabbatical to try lots of new things and I met Kerrie Dorman early in 2012 when she encouraged me to try [...]

Monthly Mentor Profile – February 2013

Kerrie Dorman How did you start Mentoring/Providing Business Support? After the sale of my last business I was invited to join the mentoring team at The London Innovation Centre headed up by Chris Fogg – a member! I fell in love with mentoring having never had anything like it throughout my business career. Sadly the [...]

Monthly Mentor Profile – January 2013

Mike Escott FCMI, MBCS, C.Dip.AF, C.Inst. SMM How did you start Mentoring/Providing Business Support? For over 40 years I have been involved in selling systems to corporates and SMEs. This experience has given me the grounding to be able to analyse business problems, evaluate possible solutions, implement the chosen option and provide on-going support to [...]

Monthly Mentor Profile – December 2012

Chris Burgin How did you start Mentoring/Providing Business Support? I was approached by a business colleague and he introduced me to a small but rapidly growing kids “Balance Bike” business in Somerset (Kiddimoto). The owner recognised that they needed help to get to the next level. I liked their enthusiasm and as always in assessing [...]

Monthly Mentor Profile – November 2012

Leo Dunne How did you start Mentoring/Providing Business Support? I found that I got the greatest satisfaction in helping early stage businesses by chance rather than design. With a promising career in finance and investment, the path to mid-market venture capital and mezzanine finance was open but the allure of early stage entrepreneurs had captured [...]

Monthly Mentor Profile – September 2012

Dan Somers How did you start Mentoring/Providing Business Support? I exited my business a few years ago, and I was drawn to ‘pro-active angel investment’, i.e. providing money and advice where needed in growing businesses. I was drawn to the idea of supporting entrepreneurs who were once like me starting out in their first business. [...]

Monthly Mentor Profile – August 2012

Kathy Ennis How did you start Mentoring/Providing Business Support? I started running my business back in 2001 and since then I have had some great ‘Ups’ and lots of really difficult ‘Downs’; I have had some success and made some smashing, loyal friends, business partners and clients. However I have also had some monumental failures [...]

Monthly Mentor Profile – July 2012

Tamsin Fox-Davies How did you start Mentoring/Providing Business Support? I was running my own small business with a partner, and found that friends and associates were coming to me with business questions. I LOVED helping them to solve their business problems, and so when the time came to change my business I decided to focus [...]

Monthly Mentor Profile – June 2012

Robert Copping How did you start Mentoring/Providing Business Support? At Sightpath we use our modelling system for our clients to evaluate business strategies, match them to the available funding and assess which options are likely to generate the best future valuations. Our client’s success then relies on effective implementation of the resulting plan, so we [...]

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