Kelly has operated a carpet recycling business Carpet-Burns since 2002 after winning the Shell Live wire Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2003, (East Midland region) and many more business and innovation awards since. Kelly is a founding member and director for the creative Industries Network (CIN) which is actively involved with the organization and running of monthly events, which enhance and promote the creative Industries within the region. Kelly has recently become a business advisor for creative launch pad offering business support, training and guidance to pre-start and early stage businesses specialising in creative industries support raising and obtaining finance and Intellectual property.

I am the Business Programme Manager for The Prince’s Trust in Birmingham and Solihull. This means I am responsible for starting 140 new businesses across Birmingham and Solihull for young people aged 18-30. We give advice, guidance and funding to help start those businesses. As well as this I have a network of over 150 mentors to help our businesses across a wide range of solicitors, accountants, business men and women and many other trades and skills. I also have around 400 active businesses to choose from if you need anything and I can connect you quickly to a whole range of different people and businesses to help with any needs you or your business may have. -

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…”