Thrive in Global Markets

Giovanni Baccini is the managing director of Lewden, an established electromechanical provider in the UK, exporting to many countries. Lewden is owned by the Italian Palazzoli Group which was founded in 1904. After working in different positions in the Palazzoli Group for several years, his journey finally led him to the UK.  In the first episode of the 3rd Series of Conquer New Markets, Giovanni...

Domenica Di Lieto is the CEO at Emerging Communications - a leading Chinese marketing consultancy. After working in the industry for almost three decades and running her own digital agency for 6 years, she founded Emerging Communications in early 2015 to provide services to organizations looking to market to China. Being a highly experienced sales and marketing professional, Domenica and her team...

Domenica Di Lieto is the CEO at Emerging Communications - a leading Chinese marketing consultancy. After working in the industry for almost three decades and running her own digital agency for 6 years, she founded Emerging Communications in early 2015 to provide services to organizations looking to market to China. Being a highly experienced sales and marketing professional, Domenica and her team...

Jack is the co-founder of what3words, an innovative app that enables the simplest way of giving location.  what3words labels each of the world's 57 trillion 3 meter squares with 3 words in 47 languages from Arabic to Zulu. With investors like Intel, Mercedes, Sony, and Subaru, Jack and his team extended the reach of the company to over 170 countries and 650 businesses in a period of 8 years.  Desc...

Geoffrey Bowden, general secretary of EUATC is back for another episode! EUATC is an umbrella body for national associations of translation companies throughout Europe and currently represents 24 European countries and has 10 strategic partners including the USA and Canada. Believing that translation companies are the key to a globalized world, Geoffrey helped establish EUATC as a young man and ha...

Tanya Rolfe is the co-founder of Her Capital. Her Capital is a seed venture fund in Singapore - investing in female-founded, scalable businesses across Southeast Asia. Tanya’s 15-year legal career at some of the world’s largest law firms has hounded her ability to influence and collaborate with people from diverse disciplines and backgrounds. Eager to enter the world of venture, Tanya founded Ladi...

Joel Alexander Van der Molen is a multi-award-winning English Actor and Filmmaker, best known for telling his own life story in the Documentary Films, The Magnificence of You and Living My Illusion on Amazon Prime. He grew up in South East England, attended local Schools, was a young British Tennis hopeful, and studied acting at The Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. After years of...

Lara Morgan is a successful entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and investor. At the age of 18, she taught herself sales, by 21 she was managing a Yellow Pages sales team across six countries in the Gulf. By the age of 23, she started her first business Pacific Direct selling manufactured toiletries to the hotel business. Starting from nothing, she built her company into a thriving international b...

Ozan Dagdeviren is a serial entrepreneur, author, and founder of Startups of London, a media company that gives a voice to London’s thriving start-up ecosystem. Their website provides guides to entrepreneurship, insights, and videos showcasing start-up success and failure. Today he presents the Mental Fitness Podcast for Entrepreneurs and writes books on entrepreneurship. His latest book, Startups...

Regular listeners will recognise Levent Yildizgoren, managing director of TTC wetranslate. In this special edition of the podcast, Geoffrey Bowden, founder of the European Association of Translation Companies, turns the tables on Levent. Both men have successful track records in the translation industry and both have come to the UK from overseas. Today Bowden runs a successful PR agency and runs a...

Professor Monika Schmid is the head of department of language and linguistics at the University of Essex. She received her PHD at the University of Dusseldorf and speaks four languages; German, Dutch, English and French. The university has earned headlines for its commitment to becoming carbon neutral. New sustainable buildings are cropping up against the background of its existing stark 60s archi...

In this episode, Levent talks about why a company trading internationally should write their documents in plain English. According to internet world stats, World internet population is nearly 5 billion. English speaking countries are 27% of the total internet population. This means you are likely to be getting visitors to your website or have connections in your profiles, that English is not their...

Turkey is a bird that is widely associated with festive season but seems to be a bird of international confusion. The name of this bird varies greatly between languages, and many different places of origin are implied. Some languages imply that the bird comes from Peru, France, India and even Rome. But where exactly does this Christmas delicacy come from? Why does each language associate this bird...

Julia Langkraehr is an entrepreneur and the UK’s first EOS implementer. Having succeeded on the high sees of entrepreneurism she’s using her experience to help others do the same.   She talks about her life in business, how she grew her start up from scratch to a thriving enterprise pulling in revenue of £30 million. She has taken her success and used it to help others. As a business mentor she’s...

Matti Hemmi is founding partner of InKnowation, a consulting firm, based in London and Madrid specialising in transforming businesses through people centred innovation.  He’s a successful author, engineer and now an innovator passionate about helping businesses find transformative ways to develop their operations to cope with an increasingly complex and demanding world. Having grown up in Spain, h...

Lesley Batchelor is an international trade expert who spent 12 years as Director General of the Institute of Export and played a major role in promoting UK trade around the world. A glittering career has seen her named the CBI’s Businesswoman of the Year and CEO of the Year by the Congress of Trade Association. In 2014, she earned one of the highest honors possible when she received an OBE. Today...

Serial entrepreneur Zeynep Turudi’s star is flying high this year. Her company Truede, which imports authentic Turkish delight for the UK market, is going strong and she was recently named Export Champion of 2020. She is also the founder of Study a Course which is a service providing an accessible platform for students looking to study overseas. Her career took a dramatic turn in 2003 when she lef...

John Vuong started his own SEO company six years ago in Toronto, Canada after working in the corporate world for many years.   The fourth child of Vietnamese immigrants to Canada, John is very familiar with hard work. He was born and raised in Hamilton, and worked from a young age to help his family while also having some pocket money to have fun. John believes in education and continuous learning...

Jeff Dewing is the founder and CEO of Cloudfm, a facilities management company based in Colchester, Essex. He has grown the company from just £1 million to over £70 million in only four years and is a disruptive force of nature within the facilities management industry. He began as a fridge engineer, following in his father’s footsteps, and has since been in the FM industry for over 35 years. This...

The UK has left the European Union and the post Brexit Transition period will end on 31 December 2020. What does this mean for UK businesses? There is currently no trade deal, though the UK government and the EU are hoping to put something in place before the deadline. This is hardly giving any comfort to businesses as 50% of the UK’s exports are to EU countries. And if a high percentage of your c...

Alistair Callender is the founder and CEO of Gate8, a modular cabin luggage manufacturing and retail company founded in 2006. Originally training as an engineer, and with over 20 years’ experience working for large corporations, Alistair found himself spending many hours each month stuck at luggage check-in points and paying excess baggage fees. He needed a solution. Taking inspiration from the bo...

Sebastian Bates is the Co-Founder of Shield, Founder of The Warrior Academy and Co-Founder of the Global Anti Bullying organisation “Not A Victim”. Sebastian is an Entrepreneur, Mentor, Best Selling Author and host of the the No 1 podcast for Business and Entrepreneurs “Round pegs Square holes” and No 3 podcast for Education “The Warrior Academy Podcast”. The near death experience taught Sebastian...

Melissa Day has helped to raise over £60,000 for a project called Tea Leaf Vision, run via UK registered charity Tea Leaf Trust. They provide a life changing English Diploma programme to youth of the poorest tea estate communities in Sri Lanka whilst empowering them to become “Change Agents”; role models, active in social service. As part of her Niroshini portfolio, Melissa has also launched a Dir...

Jane Malyon – Chief Scone Gnome of The English Cream Tea Company – has transformed her passion into a successful export business. Her company sends out treats around the world that make people smile and hampers that seem like hugs in a box. Jane is a published author and has over half a million YouTube views in her video 'English Cream Tea Etiquette' and has a TEDx talk called ‘How afternoon tea c...

Daniel Priestley is co-founder and CEO of Dent global and author of four best-selling books including - Entrepreneur Revolution. In this episode, Daniel shares his refreshing outlook on recession - ‘reset and reinvent’ - and his five steps to recession-proof your business. Daniel is passionate about global small business and provides entrepreneurs with easy and fun methods to leverage the value of...