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URL:https://londonderrychamber.co.uk/events/non-executive-directors-helpin
 g-to-realise-your-ambition/
SUMMARY:Non-Executive Directors – helping to realise your ambition
DESCRIPTION:Date:   Thursday 05 November 2020           \n\nTime
 :   11:00am – 11.45am\n\nLocation: Zoom Webinar\n\nThis webinar aims to
  take the mystery out of the appointment of Non-Executive Directors (NEDs)
  to your Board\; matched appropriately to your business they can add realv
 alue by creating a strategic partnership\, offering investment opportuniti
 es and free-thinking.\n\nThe panel will start with the basics:\n\n 	whatis
  a Non-Executive Director?\n 	how can they add value to your business?\n 	
 how can a business access the network of NEDs?\n 	what costs are associate
 d with taking on a NED?\n 	How can a NED open up access to alternative fin
 ancing?\n 	Can you engage a NED on a temporary basis?\n\nWe will hear from
  Paul McElvaney about Learning Pool’s experience of engaging a NED and a
 lso from Dr Bryan Keating\, who will speak from from his own perspective a
 s that Non-Executive Director: the process and the benefits\, also includi
 ng how by doing so\, this helped to realise the company’s ambitions. We 
 will also hear from the experts\, Kirsty McManus of Institute of Directors
  NI and Susan Nightingale from British Business Bank\, providing the answe
 rs to all your questions.\n\nPanellist bios:\n\nPaul McElvaney\n\nPaul is 
 CEO and founder at Learning Pool. From humble beginnings in Derry in 2006\
 , Paul and his team have grown Learning Pool to be a world leader in workp
 lace learning\, providing innovative solutions to some of the world’sbig
 gest brands and most important government bodies.\n\nLearning Pool nowempl
 oys more than 200 people across the UK and US. Having partnered with an Ir
 ish private equity fund in 2016\, the business has trebled in size and has
  ambitions to replicate that in the next 4 years.\n\nPaul was awarded‘Di
 rector of the Year’\, from the Institute of Directors\, and cites the es
 tablishment of an independent board of directors as a key ingredientin the
  company’s success. Learning Pool has just been reaccredited Goldin Inve
 stors in People\, received an accolade for ‘Outstanding EmployeeEngageme
 nt’ from Sunday Times Best Companies and secured Gold in Deloitte’s Be
 st Managed Companies.
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