A Journey into the Entrepreneur’s Jungle
Panel with successful investors (David Stredder, Karin Schulte, Mike Dennis & Modwenna Rees-Mogg) chaired by Sheryl Cuisia, King’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence (Lent 2022).
Read speakers bios here (below).
Chair: Sheryl Cuisia draws on over 20 years’ experience in investor engagement and corporate governance advisory, during which time she oversaw 1,000 campaigns across multiple industries and markets. With progressive proxy solicitation and shareholder communications for complex mergers and acquisitions, activist situations and corporate actions being her key focus areas, she is able to apply her specialist insights to her work at ShareSoc.
In 2011, Sheryl founded a leading UK shareholder engagement consultancy, which was subsequently acquired by a FTSE 250 company in 2018. Her cadre of clients include small-cap companies through to large multi-nationals, activist hedge funds and private equity firms. Her substantial career spans analytical, operational and developmental roles in the UK and Canada for corporate advisory firms.
Sheryl’s advocacy work includes her role as the inaugural Entrepreneur-in-Residence at King’s College, Cambridge University, and co-founding and co-chairing the Women’s Company Secretary Circle (WoCoS). She is also a member of the judging panel of the Non-Executive Director Awards, and holds a small portfolio of non-executive director mandates.
Outside of traditional work, Sheryl is an avid rare plant collector and hobbyist, combining her passion for houseplant investing and social impact via her #plantswithpurpose project on Instagram @sherylinmotion.
Mike Dennis has a wide range of managerial experience in processing and manufacturing industries ranging from oil production and refining to chemicals, industrial, medical and speciality gases. His functional experiences include strategy, B2B marketing, product development, sales, operations, business and project management.
Since retiring from full time roles in the corporate world Mike has put his energies into growing ShareSoc’s membership base, managing his own investment portfolio, doing consultancy work, playing golf and climbing mountains.
Karin Schulte has worked in global logistics, investment banking and private equity in Asia for a total of 25 years based in Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia. Karin is currently based in the UK and actively invests in listed and unlisted companies. Karin has extensive experience also in the not-for-profit sector both in the UK and internationally. Karin has a portfolio of roles and has a particular interest in the next generation of leaders.
David Stredder started as a sports journalist but decided to concentrate on his growing property management business from the age of 29. That business grew to be one of the largest in South London and was sold to an industry consolidator in the late nineties. Since then he has concentrated on his listed and unlisted investments and is an active small-cap investor. David was a founder and eventual chairman of the London Business Club and networking continues to play an important role with the regular monthly investor dinners and company presentations that he arranges in South East London.
Modwenna Rees-Mogg is a founder of AngelNews and chair of The Pluralists Club. Read her FT interview about female investors here.
WHEN:
6:00 PM Drinks
6:30 PM Panel followed by Q&A
7:45 PM Drinks and opportunity to follow-up with speakers in-person
WHERE: King’s College, Cambridge