Sorry about the FOMO, but we do have our online Community Networking coming up next Friday which may go some way to easing the pain? 
feeling Happy
We’re all so energised (if a little exhausted) from spending time with our fabulous community!
The inaugural Portfolio Career Festival is officially closed! 
and potentially some overlap with 
If you happen to be free at 1pm BST, it’d be brill to have you join us: 
Still, we carried on. Despite some technical glitches, we wrapped up on time, and I’m grateful that my two dedicated attendees Haraprasanna and Sahil had some positive takeaways. Big thanks to both of them for being there today. This session has also given me more insights into improving my approach for future sessions. 
that is great news and excellent to hear that all your hard work is paying off! Excited to see where you will go next 
). I’d suggest looking through those and sending messages to 8-10 of them.
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Alex Fries posted in the group Based in the Middle East
Time to spin up the TPC Middle East chapter!
To get started, please invite all your ME-based TPC contacts to join the group…
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Hand-in-hand with the website group here, there is also a brand new shiny WhatsApp group for coordinating meet-ups etc.
If you would like to be added to the WhatsApp group as well, drop me a quick message on +971 58 58 422 98.
Hopefully see some of you IRL soon!
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Are we seeing double??
The IRL activity feed was an absolute hit at the Portfolio Career Festival and served as a brilliant conversation starter – don’t forget to follow up with those people you connected with!
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Hi everybody pleased to have joined the network as a member and look forward to meeting some of you all soon – I heard great things about the Ministry of Sound event and have FOMO!
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Welcome Antony
Sorry about the FOMO, but we do have our online Community Networking coming up next Friday which may go some way to easing the pain? We’d love to have you join us!
https://portfolio-collective.com/events/community-networking/
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Roy Whitehead is
feeling HappyIt was such a lovely, positive day at the Career Festival
A truly community feel where so many notes were traded, lessons learned and opportunities to realise our potential explored.
Positivity and positive action rules!
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Thanks for your tips and encouragement Ben Legg. It was great seeing you in person (both minus spectacles :))
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So glad you enjoyed the day, Roy! It was wonderful to see so many of our members getting along famously – we’re looking forward to hearing about all the wonderful collaborations that are going to come out of these conversations
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I really wish I could have made the event tomorrow
I hope it is an excellent session
Gutted 😭 I hope you do another one !
Especially in the North !
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Ahh we had the best time! So wonderful to be surrounded by such a diverse group of enthusiastic and skilled people – keep an eye on our socials as we be sharing some snapshots of our day
We’re all so energised (if a little exhausted) from spending time with our fabulous community!
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We did it!
The inaugural Portfolio Career Festival is officially closed! What a magical experience to be able to bring together our tribe to create such a supportive, friendly and thoughtful enivronment – you, our community members, really are some of the best humans out there
Thank you so much to those of you who were able to join us, your contributions and energy made the festival even better than we could have anticipated. We can’t wait to hear all about what you learned and who you met, so please share your experiences and highlights from the day!
Our sights are on what we can do next (once we’ve had a little lie down) so do keep an eye out for our next initiative
But for now, thank you once again for all your support.PLUS Ben Legg cried, so we know it must have been an excellent do
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Good morning, afternoon and evening,
Delighted to have joined this community. Looking forward to meeting you IRL or virtually.
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Lovely to have you, Myriam – please do drop me a line if you have any questions as you begin to explore the platform
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Thank you Melanie. Just sent you an invitation to connect.
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Keith Kacin posted in the group The Community
Hey everyone! My name is Keith and I have been a software product manager for years, and worked with freelancers on a lot of my past projects.
I decided to try to create software to help freelancers and gig workers easily create and manage an online portfolio. The goal is to have a central place where you can showcase all of your past projects, regardless of where they happened (offline, through a specific marketplace like Upwork, existing client, etc).
This is currently in a very early release and we are looking to iterate quickly to help freelancers easily setup an online presence and then start introducing additional tools to help them manage their freelance career. Here is an example portfolio with some dummy data.
https://go.giglancer.app/me/john-doe
*Would anyone be open to signing up (it is free to signup and create, just not publish) and providing some feedback on what we could improve on and what you would like to see?* As a thank you, I will upgrade your account f…
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Great, thanks for sharing Keith! I’m sure this will be of interest to many of our community members
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James Samuels posted in the group I'm looking for.. .
Hi All I’m setting up a UK venture advisory firm as part of a successful international group. We’re working with early and growth stage tech businesses with strong founding teams, a tested value proposition and looking to scale internationally.
I’m looking for:
– Advisors – domain experts (start-up through to exit)
– Investors – looking for qualified early stage opportunities
Look forward to hearing from you…
James
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James Samuels – probably over half our members fall into the category of ’experienced execs who help founders succeed’ so you are in the right place.
However, that does make it hard for one of the TPC team to tag suitable people on this post, as the list would be too long. Do you have any specific needs at the moment?
Also, can you make it to our Portfolio Career Festival this Wednesday at the Ministry of Sound, London? We will have over 120 members there all day ̵…
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Hi Ben – Yes – there’s lots of high calibre people on the TPC site!
We have a small / growing portfolio of advisory clients in the UK/European tech space (B2B SaaS, fintech, HR tech, sports tech, IT resourcing markplace…) needing funding (pre-seed, seed, Series A).
We help prep prepare for funding and with growth – so I’m looking for someone to help with access to UK/EU investors for our portfolio clients.
Any help here, would be great. Thanks! Jame…
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Understood James Samuels
Some fundraising experts in the community include Rob Gershon Drummond Gilbert Marta Checa Amit Agnihotri Peter Miles Owen Knowles Emelie Metscher Piers James Stanzler Aaron Awan Tetiana Dymytrashchuk Imran Chagpar Raphael Benhamou Linda Blank Carmel Rafaeli Alex Hayes-Griffin Felix Bensberg
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Reaching out for some help with a new business im involved with its in eSIMs we need to talk to a supplier of D to C marketing /advertising services .any one with telco experience or selling SIM cards please get in touch ,we are building out our team we already have an app in the stores called eSIMCrew we distribute through partnerships can are thinking about a d to c offer . Please get in touch
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Sounds interesting Mike Anderson. Tagging a few members who might be able to help: Jeremy Taylor Victoria Rusnac Davide Cervellin Richard Leader Martin Bould Clive Ryan Christina Trampota Mark Varley Ben Warren
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Thanks for the tag Ben. Mike, I’ll drop you a message as I’ve previously worked in Telco (Internet and Mobile / Sim) advertising and marketing. Happy to help where I can.
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Hi mark thanks for reaching out lets find a time for a chat [email protected] can we do this week tuesday 9.30 any good .
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Hi Mike Anderson, I can definitely help with this. I’ve worked for Millicom in Africa (Tigo wireless) as well as Telefonica (O2) and AT&T in the US. If you still need help, please give me a shout.
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Hi Faisal thanks for reaching out let do a call this week
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Good Morning
I recently joined this platform as I am building my portfolio career. Hoping to network and identify opportunities for NED / Interim or my own business development.
Having spent 20 years operating in the UK FMCG world and now running multiple (Diverse) businesses with a desire to continue to build strategy via NED roles, I hope to also learn from this collective
I look forward to interacting with you in the future
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Hi Paul, so glad you’ve joined us! What sort of businesses are you currently running? We could perhaps put you in touch with some relevant portfolio professionals to help get your time with us off to a flying start
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Hi Charlotte, I am a trained Wiley DiSC coach and specialise in helping FMCG professionals in all aspects of development (Savage Performance Coaching). I am also a specialist in Agriculture and how to maximise value creation with retailers for programmes.
My other business is Motorsport and I run a team racing Audi TT’s across the UK Tracks (I say business; its more like my hobby but people pay to come with me!)
Plus I am a Non Executive Chairman and am looking for more roles to com…
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Oh fabulous! I know that David Cullimore is a big car guy, so I’m sure you’d have plenty to chat about
And you’ve got agriculture in common with Lara Martini
and potentially some overlap with Roy Whitehead on retail/FMCG Feel free to explore our member directory and find more folks that you’d like to meet with – everyone is up for a chat here!
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Thanks @Charloette-Owen and happy to chat Paul Savage. Very interested in sustainable agriculture and traceability so there could be a good complementarity. What organisation do you Chair? I’m also a NED with 3x current roles. Best, Lara
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Hi Lara, Its within the UK dairy sector but isnt public just yet (announced 2025).
I have spent 12 years recently at Arla Foods in the UK and also as the UK Dairy Roadmap chair (2023-2024). If I can help in any way, please let me know
Thanks Paul
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Interesting background. My trajectory is a similar used to for Just Eat Takeaway for 8 years.
Also have a property business and have just helped my wife get her Indian Street Food van business off the ground in the last 6 months.
Now looking for NED roles ! Welcome to TPC
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Hi All
Thought I’d drop an intro as I’ve just joined and am making the move from a perm career into a portfolio career (18 years exec experience).
A bit more about me I am based near London, and my fractional focus is in the COO space – Scaling & Advisory for startups, digital & business transformation for SME’s in retail, e-commerce or financial services. With a particular specialism in building strong teams & processes, running large global programmes and strategy formulation.
Fun Fact: Have lived across 3 continents – Asia (India), North America (Canada) & the UK. Global citizen! Also have a property portfolio.
Happy to provide coaching as well as getting to know this community and share experiences
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Great to e-meet you, Avneet! Our Community Networking sessions are a great way to get to know the community, and luckily enough our next one is coming up on Friday
If you happen to be free at 1pm BST, it’d be brill to have you join us: https://portfolio-collective.com/events/community-networking/?swcfpc=1 -
Welcome Avneet! Lovely to meet you! As Charlotte said it’d be great to see you at one of our Community Networking events!
If you’re looking for fractional COO roles, I’d also recommend filling out your TPC profile – we search through our members profiles when we’re searching for candidates for roles. We have this useful guide on building a strong TPC profile which you might find helpful: https://portfolio-collective.com/content/articles/create-a-stronger-tpc-profile…
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Thank you – I’ve signed up for one in November. I took sometime out to help setup my wife’s new food business alongside my property business. Am looking forward to explore the fractional space
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**Weekend Musings of My Active Mind!
**We all have those share-worthy moments—a great celebration or a job well done! Well, today, though, wasn’t quite one of them for me.
I was set to lead a session for around 50 attendees, but only 2 participants joined… a bit underwhelming, right?
Still, we carried on. Despite some technical glitches, we wrapped up on time, and I’m grateful that my two dedicated attendees Haraprasanna and Sahil had some positive takeaways. Big thanks to both of them for being there today. This session has also given me more insights into improving my approach for future sessions. Highs and lows come and go; what matters is to keep moving forward, even if it’s only one small step at a time.
I feel deeply connected to everything that I’m doing right now, and I’m committed to doing my bit to make steady sturdy progress.
Wishing you all resilience, positivity, and limitless possibilities on your own journey, wherever it takes you!
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Looking to connect with or be introduced to investors that have a passion and interest in
Playing a part in a successful innovative UK start up manufacturing company that is looking to scale its production of high quality natural organic plant based high protein fermented food that is on trend with health
Please DM me for further details
P.S. I’ve been quiet for a while now but that’s because I’ve been working really hard on my business in creating a Portfolio Career. It’s been 12 months since I earnt a penny but I’m super pleased to share that I have today won my 2nd client after getting my 1st client 2 months ago, a superfood brand from Bulgaria who I am working with to get market ready for launch into the UK market.
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Huge congrats, David
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Congrats David, super glad to hear this! Onwards and upwards. Here’s to the next chapter of paying yourself 📈
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David Morris – we have 105 people with ‘manufacturing’ in their TPC profiles (link below
). I’d suggest looking through those and sending messages to 8-10 of them.Top Tip: don’t ask for money. That’s the best way to get ignored. Ask for advice, e.g. feedback on the strategy/ plan. That should get you a meeting. Once people are engaged, you may find that they have investor connections that they will make intros to.
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