Insight Event: Enterprise & Entrepreneurship

Rich is a technology entrepreneur and investor. He started his first company at 15 years old building websites while he was still at school. After studying Computer Science at UCL he joined Goldman Sachs and later Nomura before moving back to entrepreneurship and starting Orderswift, a hospitality software company. He's passionate about using technology to solve big problems and find efficiencies in businesses he has built or bought.n.

Eren is a Director at Catersales with 16 years of experience delivering insight-led design and build solutions across the hospitality and foodservice sector. He has worked with organisations from schools and corporates to independent operators and high-street brands, helping them sharpen their concepts and create efficient, customer-ready spaces. Eren is often brought in by mid-sized brands looking to accelerate growth, valued for his clear thinking and practical, results-focused approach. He enjoys discussions around problem-solving, ambitious personal goal setting and the challenges of running & growing a business. 

Kate qualified as a Speech and Language Therapist in 2015. During her time working in the NHS and at a charity special school, Kate realised something important: Speech and Language Therapy could be delivered differently. There was space for creative, outcomes-driven practice. In 2021, she took the leap of faith and founded Wave. Fast-forward 2.5 years and Wave is now a growing team of eight Speech and Language therapists and two speech and language therapy assistants. We are led by out-of-the-box thinking and a deep commitment to understanding the needs of our young people. We are currently running the provision in four FE colleges, working alongside youth justice teams, part of a government-funded project piloting a specialist task force model for young people with SEMH and delivering remote training programmes on all things communication.