New Venture Creation programme Executive Education and Dubai 2019 New Venture Creation Programme overview Who is it for?

Dates Whether you have serious ambition This course is right for you, if you have to start your own business or want the following:

to be more entrepreneurial within ■■ Dubai: 18th – 21st April 2019 A desire to launch your own business your organisation, the New Venture or be more entrepreneurial in your st th London: 21 – 24 May 2019 Creation course offers you the perfect current work opportunity to develop and refine your ■■ A UK upper second-class degree or Locations: business creation strategy. above, or the equivalent from an overseas institution Dubai: Cass , Dubai This highly experiential programme, International Financial Centre (DIFC) delivered over four days, will equip ■■ At least three years’ experience you with the skills necessary to start a working in a corporate or start up London: , environment. 200 Aldersgate, London EC1A 4HD scalable business, through a variety of lectures, guest speakers’ presentations, Fees group discussions and peer-to-peer learning. In the majority of sessions, you will analyse concepts from business “ I found the course Dubai: £3,000 (+ UAE VAT) Includes all meals, refreshments cases and explore the many dimensions incredibly applicable and and programme materials of new venture creation and growth, relevant. Every evening including conceptualising, developing, I went home full of new London: £3,000 (No VAT is charged) Includes all meals, refreshments and managing and exiting successful ideas. There were also programme materials new ventures. aspects of corporate entrepreneurship, which Benefits I think were interesting On completion of the programme when I consider my participants will be able to: daytime job!” ■■ Evaluate the viability of a high Catherine Darlington, potential new venture Senior Transition Manager at Legal and General, ■■ Produce and deliver a pitch deck and New Venture Creation 2017 business plan for a new venture ■■ Analyse a new or growing venture from the perspective of an investor, a family business successor, or an owner-manager ■■ Understand venture capital , business angels and crowdfunding ■■ Evaluate the mechanisms through which firms can protect their intellectual property and develop business planning skills.

Apply now cass.city.ac.uk/new-venture-creation Biographies: Greece (IHU). Prior to Cass, Costas held academic appointments at University of Professor Costas Andriopoulos Strathclyde Business School, University of Aberdeen Business School, Brunel Professor of Business School and Cardiff Business Innovation and School. Costas regularly delivers Entrepreneurship development and training and Associate courses for business executives on the Dean for themes of innovation management, Entrepreneurship entrepreneurial thinking and strategic at Cass Business management in various countries, School, City, University of London, including the UK, France, Greece and Constantine (Costas) Andriopoulos in the Middle East. He has published holds a BSc in Business Administration, widely in these fields and his articles an MSc in Human Resource Management have appeared in several renowned and a PhD in Marketing/Strategy. He journals. A member of the investment also holds visiting posts in France committee of the Cass Entrepreneurship (Grenoble Ecole de Management), Fund, Costas is also an angel investor. India (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad), the UK (Saïd Business @candriopoulos School, University of Oxford) and

Aurore Hochard telecommunications provider. A City alumna, Aurore came back to the Originally from education sector only this time to share France, Aurore her passion for entrepreneurship and Hochard read law at to work alongside the school’s faculty, the staff and students, who are interested (City, University in creating and / or supporting the of London) to creation of new ventures whilst at change her career Cass. As well as supporting students after teaching French for a few years contemplating an entrepreneurial in the US and then in the UK. Aurore venture, Aurore enjoys working with first had the idea for her tech startup, small and large businesses through Taskhub, while involved with various the creation of entrepreneurship volunteering and community activities. programmes and events, including With no technical background, Aurore startup weekends and hackathons. built a team for Taskhub in London and @aurorehochard was then selected out of over 1,000 applicants for funding by Wayra, a tech startup incubator. She then went on to raise funding from a Venture Capital fund as well as signing a distribution partnership with a multinational

Find out more: Aurore Hochard Head of Entrepreneurship Programmes Cass Business School 106 Bunhill Row London EC1Y 8TZ T: +44 (0)20 7040 3553 E: [email protected] Tw: @aurorehochard