Business Without Bullsh-t

Welcome to part 1 of our New York Sessions series! Recorded live at the New York Stock Exchange, we managed to bag some time with Vincent Keaveny, the 693rd Lord Mayor of London while on tour in the USA and Canada as the UK's ambassador for financial services and tech sector. A big thank you to City of London Corporation and London & Partners for making this happen. Now strap in and press play.BWB is powered by Oury Clark.

Joining us this week is Dan Ipsen, Managing Director of Pincvision, a trade compliance company focusing on providing RegTech solutions for Multi Nationals. Dan grew up in Denmark, has lived and worked in Sierra Leone, Netherlands, Canada, worked at Uber, studied at Harvard and has recently moved to the UK to expand Pincvision.Check out Dan Ipsen's recommendations:"We're Doing Well Here" Podcast"The Rick Shiels Golf Show""The Dollop Podcast" with Dave Anthony and Gareth ReynoldsBWB is powered by Oury Clark

This week's BWB Extra continues our conversation with Gideon Hoffman who gives us the lowdown on what's keeping him busy at the moment: Attribute 360, Gideon's improved take on providing bespoke, value-for-money advertising strategies by combining digital and traditional media specific to the client's needs and outcomes, and the second is Gideon's work as a Trustee at the Royal National Institute For Deaf People where he helps with making life fully inclusive for deaf people and those with hearing loss, a condition that Gideon has lived with his whole life.BWB is powered by Oury Clark.

Meet the man who's part-responsible for setting up HMRC (for you lovely non-UK listeners, that's Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs) and was at the centre of what became a giant media storm surrounding the Gambling Act with his emails debated at Prime Minister's Questions.Gideon Hoffman is a decorated businessman who works across media, technology and finance. A trustee at the Royal National Institute for Deaf People (Gideon lives with an impaired hearing condition) and a lover of startups and growing businesses, Gideon is passionate about challenging the status quo and pushing the boundaries. With a past life as policy maker at HM Treasury and now an avid Founder, Advisor and Trustee, Gideon is a man with a wealth of stories to tell and advice to give.Check out Gideon Hoffman's recommendations:WIRED Podcast"Another Podcast" with Benedict Evans"The Slow Newscast" with TortoiseBWB is powered by Oury Clark.

Welcome to this week's episode of BWB Extra where we continue our conversation with Danny Lopez, CEO of Glasswall, a cyber security company specialising in protection against file-based threats.Danny opens up to tell us about the current state of cyber security. From the types of attacks seen today to the methods of protection needed and the importance of a company's public transparency about incidents, we discuss cases in point and how Glasswall's approach to protection is all about focussing on the good data, not the bad.As the sophistication of cyber war grows, so do the measures to deal with it, both online and in the real world.BWB is powered by Oury Clark.

Our guest this week is Danny Lopez, CEO of award-winning cyber security firm Glasswall which delivers unique protection against sophisticated threats through its ground-breaking technology.Danny has also enjoyed a successful career in banking, marketing and diplomacy which has included being British Consul General to New York, Director General for Trade and Investment across North America, CEO of London & Partners and Managing Director for marketing at the UK government’s Department for International Trade.And to top it off, Danny also spent 10 years at Barclays holding senior banking roles in London, New York, Miami and Mumbai.A true elite in the hot seat this week!Check out Danny Lopez's recommendations:13 Minutes To The Moon PodcastThe Missing Crypto Queen PodcastThe Dropout PodcastBWB is powered by Oury Clark.

Welcome to this week's episode of BWB Extra where we continue our conversation with Tanya Kolding Stenz, Director of Strategy & Development at the European Sperm Bank.Tanya opens up to give us the full download on the inner workings of the Sperm Donor trade, an industry riddled with myths, assumptions and confusion. From discussing the origins of the European Sperm bank to the reality of recruiting donors and even touching on that very difficult subject of discussing a donor child's biological background with them.. we attempt to unravel it all.Welcome to The Donor Appeal.BWB is powered by Oury Clark.

*You'll have to excuse the drilling noise in the background. Our neighbours are renovating!*Our guest this week is Tanya Kolding Stenz , Director of Strategy and Development at the European Sperm Bank, one of the leading sperm banks in the world.Established in 2004 with a load of entrepreneurial spirit and a strong focus on daily activities, ESB was bought by AXCEL, a private equity firm, in 2019 to facilitate further global growth and now employs 130 people across 8 locations in 4 countries.Tanya is a self-confessed innovative business developer with a strong mind for efficiency who likes to take a holistic perspective on business. In other words, she's a person who makes sure the whole job gets done, and gets done properly!Check out Tanya Kolding Stenz's recommendations_"The Heart Revolution" by Karen Tobiasen"I'm Afraid Debbie from Marketing Has Left for the DayMorten Münster"Zetland Podcast (Danish)BWB is powered by Oury Clark.

Welcome to part 2 our TechWeek Special with our good friends at London & Partners.Last week we teleported you on our Eurostar carriage from London to Paris where we held what can only be described as the world's fastest networking event for Tech startups .. on a train .. at 180 miles per hour .. en route to the VivaTech Conference. And this week we're taking you to the heart of the conference where we rocked up, mic'd up and got chatting to some of the folk at the conference, and then had a very swanky London & Partners dinner where the drinks flowed and so did our ramblings with many other fascinating people in Tech.Right then, let's go to Paris!BWB is powered by Oury Clark.

Hello and welcome to this week's episode of BWB Extra where we continue our conversation with David B Horne, Founder of Funding Focus.David opens up to tell us about the unfair reality he's discovered in venture capital funding between genders and ethnicities, an inequality so unjustifiably skewed towards white middle-class men that he felt compelled enough to do something about it which gave birth to Funding Focus, David's now life-long mission to create a level playing field for everyone in VC funding regardless of their gender or ethnicity. Welcome to The Equality Scandal.BWB is powered by Oury Clark.