Entrepreneur Club welcomes Homeserve founder
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RBC’s Brewin Dolphin Entrepreneur Club welcomed serial entrepreneur Richard Harpin the founder of Homeserve, to discuss his journey at its latest event.
Harpin grew the business from £50k in 1993, ultimately selling it for more than £4bn last year.
The RBC Brewin Dolphin Entrepreneur Club in Birmingham brings together all the elements needed for scale-up and growing businesses to be successful. It consists of investors, founders, scale-ups, CEO’s mentors, lawyers, corporate advisers, VC and PE and is now beginning to include senior figures from Universities.
The team provides entrepreneurs access to four pillars of growth – capital, talent, professional services and conducive markets – which help them firstly grow their businesses then ultimately helps them through to their exit.
Steve Banham, head of growth, Central and Northern Region said: “Forging strong relationships with scaling and exiting businesses and becoming the super-connector to the four pillars of growth, provides us with a huge amount of goodwill with the business community and professional introducers.
“It also gives us tremendous visibility on deal flow and positions us in a prime position to leverage our early relationships with those founders/scale-ups/CEO’s that are now exiting their business.”
Menna Cule, head of the Birmingham Office said: “Richard’s story was really inspiring. The pride, passion and sense of purpose in the room to make British business better was unmistakeable.
“The event was a great opportunity to meet up with likeminded people and share our own entrepreneurial experiences”.