"Nail Your Pitch" over Breakfast!
Kick off RISE the right way! Join us for a light breakfast and mingling where you can meet fellow female founders joining the RISE conference and get pitching tips and insights from an experienced investor panel to ensure you are prepared for pitching to investors during RISE.
Date: Monday, July 9
Time: 8.00-9.30am
Venue: 4F, Spaces, The Lee Gardens 3, 1 Sunning Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Cost: HK$150 includes light breakfast
Walk-ins welcome
Panel Speakers:
Karena Belin - Speaker
Karena Belin co-founded WHub out of passion to foster the growth of the startup ecosystem. Since 2013, she has been a leader in the startup scene, acting as speaker, mentor and judge at events and organisations such as WebSummit, RISE Conference, Google EYE, Chicago Booth GNVC, Tech Open Air Berlin, Techstars programs, TechSauce, Asia Pacific Week, Seedstars, global YPO YNG+ and more.She holds a double diploma in business and administration from the University of Mannheim and the MBA business school ESSEC in Paris. Previously, she has worked 15 years for Procter & Gamble in various roles throughout Finance, Sales, Strategy and Management across Europe, North East Asia and Greater China.
Michelle Paisley - Speaker
Michelle is a Hands-on, astute, business leader with a uniquely global, blue-chip background, with over 20 years of experience in investments and financial services. Michelle is particularly focused on the role that new technologies will play in institutional financial services. She has experience managing in complex matrix structures, and leading and growing teams of up to 50+, with revenues of US$100m+. Michelle also has an outstanding track record of building excellent relationships, understanding investors’ distinctive cultures and needs across public and private markets and will bring this knowledge to the discussion panel.
Other speakers will be announce soon.
Organisors
Next Chapter
We are a platform that offers various services to help female entrepreneurs take their business, ideas or project to the next level. Whether you are a new company on the rise looking for crowdfunding to kick-start your business or an established business looking to grow and develop with funding; we’re here to provide all the steps, skills and support to get you there through our courses, crowdfunding platform and connections with investors.
www.nextchapterventures.com
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