19 May 2015

St John’s Innovation Centre MD David Gill to speak at Planning for Growth

David Gill, Managing Director of St John’s Innovation Centre, the leading early-stage incubator in Cambridge, is scheduled to speak at ICAEW's Planning For Growth conference on Tuesday 2 June at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford.

Planning for Growth is a one-day conference designed to help companies with ambitious plans to expand their businesses. Whether you want to grow your company from within or expand its reach through exports, this conference will show you where there are opportunities for growth and what it takes to reach your goals.

Planning for Growth is aimed at business managers and their advisers and will:

  • Highlight opportunities for growth
  • Show how to recruit and retain a strong team
  • Set out sources of finance
  • Show you how to protect your IP Identify loans and grants available to businesses in this area.

David Gill, Managing Director at St John’s Innovation Centre, said: “I am delighted to have been asked to speak at Planning for Growth. I will discuss how businesses evolve and what it takes to achieve successful growth, which is at the heart of what we do at the Centre." Other topics to be covered include financing growth, exporting, managing change and leadership, the e-marketplace, protecting your IP and external sources of funding.

For further information and to book your place, please email [email protected] or call +44 (0)1908 248 159.

About St John's Innovation Centre

St John’s Innovation Centre was founded in 1987 by St John's College, Cambridge, the first pioneering business incubator of its kind in Europe. The Centre now provides almost 5,000m2 of managed workspace and flexible leases, currently occupied by around 87 companies and is also the base for around 350 virtual tenants, most of whom are also startups. It aims to provide a dynamic and supportive environment to accelerate the growth of early stage knowledge-based companies with flexible accommodation, strategic business advice, training and introductions. It is located at the heart of the Greater Cambridge technology cluster, in which it plays a pivotal role, and is a Business & Innovation Centre (BIC) accredited by the European Business Network. http://www.stjohns.co.uk