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Amol Maheshwari
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Amol Maheshwari

Amol Maheshwari has over a decade of investment banking and corporate finance experience. He was Vice President in Morgan Stanley prior to joining Growth Idea. He has led the business to achieve the “Global Best Client Results” and “Fastest Growing Coaching Business” awards against more than 1000 practices globally.

Amol is an MBA, CFA Charter holder and Black Belt in Six Sigma. He has advised multinationals on a wide range of strategic initiatives and has consulted for several businesses in growing profitability, through helping them to strengthen each aspect of their business and achieve a higher valuation.

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Caroline Bault
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Caroline Bault

Caroline Bault has 30 years of experience in financial services and capital markets ranging from equity research to investment banking and hedge fund allocation. She is also an experienced Non-Executive director.

Caroline has worked in London, Paris, Frankfurt, and New York and is Managing Partner at CounselRock Partners, a specialist hedge fund research and alternative investment consultancy. Her prior assignments include MD Global Business Development at CAIA, Director of European Research at Commerzbank in London and Frankfurt and Executive Director at Goldman Sachs International.

She is currently a Non-Executive director of healthcare management consultancy ETL, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), and crowd funder and social impact investment online platform Ethex as well as a trustee of Aspirations Academies Trust, the Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals Charity, think thank Further Education Trust for Leadership (FETL) and African Conservation Foundation (ACF).

Caroline is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) and a member of the CFA Institute.

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Danny Somekh
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Danny Somekh

Danny Somekh is a creative innovation and digital strategist with over 30 years of experience in the field. He is the founder and CEO of Huddle Creative, a successful award-winning creative agency, providing proposition modelling, brand strategy and identity design, digital product and transformation as well as marketing strategy and activation. Danny has worked closely with many businesses from funded startups to large global organisations, helping each business and brand get clarity over the direction they need to take. He is the Winner of

As an influencer and entrepreneur, Danny has other successful initiatives which aim to contribute to how people work and interact. He is the Founder of Leavequietly.org, TCWK.com, Kuffufle.com, and the Co-founder of Joice, Tipple and Crescendo.app. He has also been a mentor for the School of Communication Arts (SCA), Board Trustee for JAMI, a leading mental health charity.

The hardest and yet most rewarding thing Danny has ever done is to travel around the world with his wife, 2 kids and baby for one full year. He finds everything else easy by comparison!

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Louise Knopp
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Louise Knopp

Louise Knopp has over 20 years of experience in training, learning and development (L&D) sector and has worked in Warsaw, Tokyo and London for several years. Currently, she is the Managing Director of Language Services Group and her role focuses on the strategic growth of the Group both internationally and in the UK. Before that, Louise led the operations and training division at Pearson, an educational publisher and examinations board.

Louise is DELTA (Cambridge Examinations and Assessments Board) qualified from King’s College, University of London and holds a Diploma in Human Resources Management from Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

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Russell Crawford
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Russell Crawford

Russell Crawford has over 40 years of experience in both the recruitment and finance sectors. He is the Managing Director and Principal Owner of Angel Human Resources since 1966. Angel HR places permanent and temporary personnel in the Residential Care, Facilities Management, Hospitality and Catering, Industrial, Food Manufacturing, Construction, Business Management and Administrative sectors. The Managed Service Division completes outsourced payrolls for both international and national companies. Under strong leadership and management, Angel HR has been recognised as a Deloitte listed Top 100 UK Recruitment Company and winner of The Business Excellence, London Business and Great British Care Awards.

Russell has worked across UK, Europe and the Middle East and is a Fellow Member of The Recruitment and Employment Confederation, Better Bankside, supporting the regeneration of Southwark and the Commission for Quality Care. He is also an expert commentator and speaker on human resourcing issues at conferences such as Health + Care and radio and TV, for the BBC.

On a personal note, Russell is a classic car enthusiast and a total petrol head!

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Sajit Sahadevan
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Sajit Sahadevan

Sajit Sahadevan has over 30 years of experience in senior finance roles in PLCs and SMEs, supporting business to expand and create wealth by drawing upon his in-depth accountancy, tax, process re-engineering, project management and financial skills. Sajit Sahadevan has worked in several industries including investment banking, energy, pharmaceutical, property development, technology, commodity trading and the accountancy profession.
He has worked for GlaxoSmithKline creating the financial framework to enable their emerging businesses in Eastern Europe, Africa, and the Middle East to take advantage of local opportunities, expand and flourish. More notably, Sajit Sahadevan was responsible for developing the business strategy for GUM, a premier departmental store in Red Square, Moscow. The store has adopted the strategy and was able to raise $200m to expand its business.
Sajit Sahadevan is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and a member of Chartered Tax Advisers. He holds a practising certificate from the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

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Shweta Jhajharia
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Shweta Jhajharia

Shweta Jhajharia is the Principal Consultant at Growth Idea and a serial entrepreneur. She is a multi-award-winning consultant recognised, by both external bodies and industry awards panels, as the top coach in the UK, being ranked in the World’s Top 30 Coaching Professionals since 2017.

She was Global Marketing Manager with Unilever for 9 years before investing in a business coaching franchise in 2008. She has since expanded her entrepreneurial repertoire to higher-level consulting, while simultaneously acquiring multiple businesses.

She draws upon this expertise for her clients, to lead them to better profitability and enhance the long-term asset value of their businesses. Shweta’s 60+ awards include CEO Monthly’s Outstanding Businesswoman of the Year, Global Best Client Results, and two prestigious International Stevie® Awards. She has featured in over 50 leading media outlets and authored the Amazon best-seller, Sparks: Ideas to Ignite Your Business Growth.

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Tarek Bahig
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Tarek Bahig

Tarek Bahig is a Transformation and Change specialist, with over 20 years’ management experience. He has advised hundreds of business owners and C-level executives on strategy, growth, productivity, efficiency and performance. He is a certified Change Management Practitioner and was previously the Principal Consultant in a specialist EMEA consulting firm, where he delivered successful transformation programmes to large and medium-sized organisations, in multiple business sectors.

Prior to consulting, he has over a decade of experience in senior sales management roles in blue-chip multinationals including Procter & Gamble (P&G) and Heineken. He has a degree in Civil Engineering (Honours) and is a post-graduate in construction management. Tarek is a multi-award winning business expert and his growth strategies have been recognised in several publications and case studies.

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