In celebration of International Women’s Day, we held one of our regular women’s only dinner on Tuesday night with Anita, Randy and Tamar as co-hosts. This series is all about women sharing ideas and learning around personal and professional development; what better way to spend the evening of International Women’s Day than at a inspirational dinner. We also held one of our popular investor dinners too – read on to find out what went on at both: Dinner with Kathleen Saxton, founder of The Lighthouse Company & co-founder of Advertising Week Europe
We had the pleasure of organising a women’s dinner at Jamie’s Italian in Piccadilly with the impressive Kathleen Saxton as the after-dinner speaker. As the founder of The Lighthouse Company, Kathleen has built a business that represents talented individuals globally and works with the most interesting and forward thinking businesses, both in creative and media industries. At dinner, Kathleen provided her fellow female diners with her top tips along with the current trends in media recruitment such as the difficulty in retaining talent these days as more and more people are looking to be their own boss, and the increase in focus on people having a diverse skill set.

Be authentic. Be you, otherwise you are incongruous with yourself and people will feel it

She also highlighted how important it is to find an older, wiser person to learn from, to be a coach and a mentor for you. As well as knowing your own strengths and knowing your brand inside and out too.
Massive thanks go to Natalie, Head Balloonista at Miss Ballooniverse for surprising us all and very kindly creating balloon corsages for all of her fellow diners and our wonderful host too!

Dinner with Joe Krancki, Partner at Frog Capital
Our dinner with Frog Capital‘s, Joe Krancki was a gorgeous dining experience at The Happenstance with great service and a fantastically secluded private dining room away from the ‘pumping’ music going on upstairs. The guests were chatty and excitable (as is usually the case with a speaker in growth equity!) many of them having dined with us before.The food was well received by all, coming out like clockwork and providing the perfect catalyst for a long night of conversation. The majority of diners were founders of companies at various different stages and eager to hear from Joe on what he invests in.
Joe was full of information and energy during the after-dinner talk explaining to his fellow diners that Frog Capital usually invest at later stage companies than those in the room. Regardless of this, his advice was very well received including a “rate yourself as a CEO” pack that he handed out. This showed guests what Frog look for in the leader of a company; the packs were eagerly stashed away in bags for some late night reading under the bedside lamp no doubt.

Be an execution based CEO, instead of an interpersonal one.

Our speakers were joined by: Piton Capital, i2i Events Group, Phrasee, Avangate, Workshare, Archive Document Data Storage, AOL, Per4mance Insight, EnergyDeck, Framestore, Ballooniverse, Veyring, Innometrics, Jackopaw, MixMatchMe, Oliver Wyman, Snyffle, Sentenial, iwantaspeaker.com, Huge, Amondo, Giggypop, JB Cole Limited amongst others.

Special thanks go to our speakers Kathleen Saxton and Joe Francki, as well as our partner Wellers.