Emma Jones CBE is an authority on small business and enterprise. She founded Enterprise Nation after selling her first business to Tenon plc. She a co-founder of national enterprise campaign StartUp Britain. She ran the private sector-funded and Government-backed campaign as CEO from 2011 to 2014. During that time UK start-up figures boomed and hit more than half a million new company registrations in 2014 for the first time. In 2015 Emma was appointed by the UK Prime Minister as a Business Ambassador with a focus on increasing international trade. She also launched several successful campaigns including the award-winning PopUp Britain. In 2016, Emma was appointed SME Representative for Crown Commercial Service, and in 2019 was appointed as a co- leader of one of the five Business Councils set up by Theresa May and since has been called upon to be part of the freeport advisory panel under Liz Truss. Emma is also the author of bestselling business books including Spare Room StartUp, Working 5 to 9 (about starting a business on evenings and weekends), Go Global (a book about exporting), Start a Business for £99, the StartUp Kit and Going for Growth.
Our Guest Speaker EMMA JONES CBE
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