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5 July, 2022 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm BST
In conversation with Francesco Simoneschi, Co-Founder & CEO, TrueLayer– tech disruptor that has launched over 50 successful tech companies
Tuesday, 5 July 2022
18:30hrs
In conversation with Francesco Simoneschi, Co-Founder & CEO, TrueLayer– tech disruptor that has launched over 50 successful tech companies
Tuesday 5th July 6:30pm – 7:30pm BST
Cost: Complimentary
Event type: Virtual
About The Event
We are delighted to invite you as our Guest to a purpose-driven virtual roundtable discussion with Francesco Simoneschi, Co-Founder & CEO of TrueLayer, hosted in partnership with IWG Plc.
Founded in 2016, TrueLayer is the leading technology company, building financial infrastructure that is open to any business around the world. Over the past decade, Francesco has founded, managed, and grown over 50 successful tech companies across the US and Europe.
Francesco recently announced that TrueLayer has secured a $70 million Series D investment round led by Addition bringing the total investment to date to $142 million. TrueLayer has a market-leading payment conversion rate that is 22% higher than other providers and up to 40% higher than cards. Over the past 12 months, Francesco has expanded TrueLayer across 12 European markets, growing payment volumes by 600x.
TrueLayer is partnered with elite investors including the Anthemis Group, Connect Venutures, Surojit Chatterjee (CPO of Coinbase), Zack Kanter (CEO of Stedi), and Daniel Graf (ex-Uber, Google, Twitter). Headquartered in London, the TrueLayer team has significantly expanded its European footprint — adding Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, and Portugal for open banking data (AIS) and payments (PIS) — with plans for global expansion.
- Special Guest: Francesco Simoneschi
- Date: Tuesday 5th July 2022
- Time: 6:30 – 7:30 PM
- Venue: Virtual event – link sent on registration
- Cost: Complimentary
Our event partner is the world’s largest serviced office group, IWG Plc UK (Regus). Richard Morris, CEO of IWG Plc UK, will also be joining the discussion. We offer 3 months free on office packages valued over 12,000 pounds as well as unlimited complimentary access to IWG Plc business lounges across the UK for E2E Ambassadors. You can find out more here!
It promises to be a thrilling event and we would be delighted if you would join us. As this is a very special event, we would be grateful if you could register as soon as possible.
We look forward to seeing you.
Meet Your Guest Speakers
About Francesco Simoneschi
Francesco Simoneschi, Co-Founder and CEO at TrueLayer
Francesco Simoneschi is the Co-Founder and CEO at TrueLayer, the leading technology company building financial infrastructure that’s open to any business, anywhere in the world. At TrueLayer, Francesco focuses on product and business strategy, building partnerships with the world’s leading financial intuitions. Over the past decade, Francesco has founded, managed and grown a number of successful tech companies in the US and Europe, including analytics platform Staq.io which was acquired by Playhaven, and mobile marketing platform Upsight. Francesco has a degree in Information Management and Economics from the London School of Economics, and a degree in Computer Engineering from La Sapienza University in Rome.
Meet Your Hosts
Richard Morris
CEO – IWG UK
Richard is the CEO of IWG UK. He joined in 2014 following his role as CEO of G4S’s UK & Ireland Division. IWG UK is the world’s largest provider of flexible workspace solutions offering a fast growing global network of 3,000 locations in 120 countries. Since joining, Richard has consistently delivered year on year growth for Regus’ UK division.
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
Details
- Date:
- 5 July, 2022
- Time:
- 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm BST