Senake Atureliya is a serial entrepreneur and innovator who founded his first business, a bespoke production line machinery business back in 1991.Today, Senake leads Buzz Technology Limited, a small consulting business specialising in business process innovation and ERP systems consultancy which he founded back in 1996. Drawing upon the experience and best practice knowledge gained on global implementations across a wide range of industries and from previous ventures, he has come up with the ‘Pie Finance’ solution to overcome the early (idea to investable) stage funding gap. A development on existing crowd sourcing and micro-finance applications, it employs a number of patent pending innovations to significantly mitigate innovator and investor risk. He remarked “I was so frustrated with being told by potential investors that they would be interested when I had a finished product, experienced management team and possible some customers, that I decided that there had to be a better way…”

Internet entrepreneur and blogger. Having been a sporting fanatic throughout his life, becoming a national champion and member of the English table tennis squad as a junior, David caught the entrepreneurial bug aged 20. After founding GroupSpaces Ltd (formerly ClickUni Ltd), winning places on courses and internships with McKinsey & Company, Lehman Brothers and JPMorgan, and leading various university sports clubs, David was awarded 2nd place in the UK Graduate of the Year competition in 2007. David is currently CEO at GroupSpaces Ltd, a funded Internet start-up addressing the pains of group management and communication online. In his spare time he enjoys writing “Freed from The Matrix” (www.davidlanger.co.uk) – a blog giving an insight into the lives of young entrepreneurs and also the entrepreneurship section for national student newspaper, The Gateway.