“We’d like to fully electrify Africa by 2040, with renewable energy at its core”. That’s the vision that Tony Tiyou had when he set up Renewables in Africa (RiA), his engineering, consulting and media organisation. The trigger was seeing a satellite image showing the distribution of power across the planet, and seeing that Africa, was […]
Founders and Owners
Would you give your shares away? It’s about more than karma
Ben Brabyn’s had a fascinating career across multiple touchpoints with entrepreneurship. He’s … set up and sold his own company; represented entrepreneurs for global investment at the DTI; headed Level39, London’s biggest fintech entrepreneurship hub; created a company to connect entrepreneurs to people who wouldn’t typically inhabit that world. This gives him unique insights that […]
BHAG? Remove half a billion tons of carbon emissions every year
Jan Rippingale’s ambitions were never small. At an early age, Jan was looking first to be an astronaut. On the way to president. Ironically, working with John Glenn turned her ambitions away from this, and more towards using technology to create impact. Her chosen area of impact is to reduce our carbon footprint. And her […]
Bill Gates wanted to stuff it to IBM
As far as BHAGs go, Eliminating Global Healthcare Inequalities has got to be out there with the best. Though Alphalake being a British company, it’s a little more modest. “To work towards global health equality.” This is just the fourth part of a strong mission, which aside from being a key part of founder Olly […]
If you’re frustrated with your leadership team, the feeling’s probably mutual!
“It annoys me how often I need to tell my leadership team what to do. But if I don’t, they just won’t do the right thing.” (How to upset everyone in one fell swoop. But it needs saying, so here goes…) If you’re a CEO frustrated with your leadership team (LT), I’ll bet they’re also […]