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12 May, 2022
E2E Private Dinner Series in partnership with Rothschild & Co – Guest of Honour Mark Slack
Thursday, 12 May 2022
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E2E Private Dinner Series in partnership with Rothschild & Co - Guest of Honour Dr Mark Slack
Thursday 12th May
About The Event
We are delighted to host a private dinner with a global leading, extraordinary entrepreneur Mark Slack Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder of CMR Surgical, a company aimed at developing a novel surgical robot (Versius).
Starting his career in the College of Medicine of South Africa, he was awarded Daubenton Gold Medal for being the most distinguished candidate in the country. He continued his journey to Cambridge where he became the head of Gynaecology and Urogynaecology at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. Currently, CMR Surgical is one of the largest Med Tech Start-Up companies in Europe and has recently had the highest private MedTech funding round in the world with a $660 million fundraise. The company employs circa 800 people in more than 7 geographies and has a valuation of $3.5 Billion.
A selected gathering of high-growth entrepreneurs and industry-leading experts will accommodate riveting conversations on the eventful career of Mark Slack and insight on the development of CMR Surgical and the robotic surgery system Versius.
Our Private Dinner Series aims to bring together the elite of the entrepreneurial ecosystem to create a supportive environment that facilitates the growth of scaling ventures.
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Meet Your Guest Speaker
About Dr Mark Slack, MA (Cantab) MBBCh MMed (UCT) FCOG(SA) FRCOG FRCS (Hon)
Mark Slack qualified as a doctor at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He then completed his postgraduate training at the University of Cape Town. He graduated from the College of Medicine of South Africa winning the Daubenton Gold Medal for the most distinguished candidate in the exams in the country.
He was previously head of Gynaecology and Urogynaecology at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, University of Cambridge Teaching Hospitals Trust, Cambridge. He is an associate Professor at the University of Cambridge.
Mr. Slack has run an active research unit in Cambridge. The unit was involved in a number of research initiatives. He developed and introduced the Sacrospinous Fixation to the UK which is now the most performed procedure for the management of uterovaginal prolapse in the UK. In addition, he has invented several procedures which were adopted and taken to global launch by international Medical Device companies. Two by Johnson & Johnson. He has published over 100 peer reviewed papers, more than 25 book chapters and numerous national guidelines. He is a regular contributor on a number of National Radio and Television programs including “case notes, “Women’s Hour”, The Victoria Derbyshire show and regional and National news programs. He was one of the keynote speakers at the 2020 “WIRED” symposium, alongside the inventors of the COVID vaccine and the winner of the 2020 Nobel prize for medicine.
He was appointed the Ethicon travelling Professor in 2004 as well as the Sims Black Professorship of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists for 2005/6. Between 2006 and today he was awarded travelling Professorships to the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (2006 and 2019), the South African Medical college 2017, the University of Cape Town 2009, the University of British Columbia, Canada 2018 and the University of Pretoria 2018. He was recognised by the NIHR in 2015 with an award as one of the leading researchers in the UK for clinical research. In 2018, under his leadership the Urogynaecology unit in Cambridge achieved the highest accreditation score ever awarded by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists recognizing it as one of the leading units in the country.
He is a Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of CMR Surgical, a start-up company in Cambridge which has developed a novel surgical robot (Versius). This is a next generation surgical robotic system designed to increase the use of minimally invasive (keyhole) surgery. This is now one of the largest Med Tech Start-Up companies in Europe and has recently had the highest private MedTech funding round in the world with a $660 million raise. The company currently employs more than 800 people in more than 7 geographies and has a valuation of $3.5 Billion. Mark is keen to stress the ethical manner that the company has brought the product to market alongside a range of other innovations including virtual reality training. He is also really proud of the digital innovations introduced by the company including a novel registry system to guarantee surgical safety.
Dr Mark Slack
MA (Cantab) MBBCh MMed (UCT) FCOG(SA) FRCOG FRCS (Hon)
www.markslackgynaecologist.org.uk
www.cmedrobotics.com
Meet Your Host
Shalini Khemka CBE
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of E2E
Shalini began E2E in 2011 to help founders to ‘scale’ and to avoid many of the challenges she had faced during the establishment of her first business. There are other organisations supporting the growth of entrepreneurs, however, by connecting founders, investors, NED’s, mentors and corporates Shalini has developed a unique approach to serve the entrepreneurial community and the UK economy.
She has attracted global audiences through building an ecosystem of world class entrepreneurial support services and by hosting hundreds of events over the last decade; many at The House of Lords.
In addition to business development this work has resulted in contributions to white papers on EIS schemes, business rates and the encouragement of youth employment in SMEs.
Through her development of this ecosystem, E2E has become an organisation which supports 23,000 founders who contribute £213bn to the UK economy and employ 1.15m people. The end goal as she regularly articulates is to drive the UK upwards from its current position of 13th in the world in its support of ‘scale-ups’ to a similar level that ‘start-up’ businesses achieve (3rd).
Perhaps more important than this has been the access to finance and mentoring that she has facilitated. This is done through her engagement with those who have achieved success and her encouragement of them to invest and provide pro-bono advice and support to those who are on their journeys.
Additionally, she has secured further government and private support for those SMEs that have been affected by COVID. Her response has been through involvement with an array of initiatives, working with founders on a one-to-one basis and capturing, in April last year, the feedback from hundreds of SMEs and translating that into a series of targeted recommendations that were presented to the Chancellor and directly influenced the nature of support packages developed by the Government.
Shalini was appointed CBE – Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, in the New Year’s Honours List 2022 by Her Majesty the Queen for Her Services to Entrepreneurship and the UK Economy.
Shalini is a Member of the Mayor of London’s Business Advisory Board and is on the Supervisory Committee of Market Finance, one of the UK’s leading Fintech firms.
She is a Fellow of Burton and South Derbyshire College and believes that turning knowledge into wisdom is the elixir of life.
In March 2021, both Shalini and E2E were commended in the Hansard at the House of Lords for their work on the Capital Gains Tax deliberations.
Recognition and Awards:
Appointed as CBE – Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, in the New Year’s Honours List 2022 by Her Majesty The Queen for Her Services to Entrepreneurship and the UK Economy.
• Most Influential Women in UK Tech, Computer Weekly 2017 – To Date
• Judge, Great British Entrepreneur Awards, 2017 – To Date
• Former Judge, National Business Awards, 2016 – 2018
• Book recognition: ‘Lessons from Life in Business’ from Facebook – 2018
• Former Judge, The Start-Up Awards – 2018
• Maserati 100 Index of Britain’s Most Successful entrepreneurs and investors – 2016
• Former Judge, IBM Smart Camp – 2016
• Former Advisory Board Director, Centre for Entrepreneurs 2015 -2018
• Harper’s Bazaar Meets Shalini Khemka: The Power of Networking – 2015
• Top 100 Asian Stars in UK Tech – 2015
• Former Director of The Development Board, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, 2013 – 2015
