Foundation x Techspace: The Age of Performance

​📍In-person, East London

The new era of performance has brought incredible challenges to the CEOs and COOs of venture-backed businesses. Building high-performance environments is really hard. If you're struggling to get this right or thinking more and more about creating a high-performance business, join us to hear from five experts as they discuss everything from defining high performance in your organisation to fostering high-performance cultures.

This by-approval-only event is designed for post-Series A tech CEOs & COOs passionate about building a high-performing organisation.

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'Growth at all costs' is now 'Performance at all costs'

​The landscape is shifting, and the old focus on growth (revenue growth! Headcount growth! Capital growth!) meant that company structures and focuses had to follow suit. It was growth or nothing.

​Over the last 18 months, however, we’ve seen a dramatic shift from growth at all costs to performance at all costs. Technology companies have been asked to focus on profitability and the strength of their unit economics. This has created friction in the transition for many companies.

​This event will be a candid conversation around how CEOs and COOs can:

• ​Define performance in your organisation

• ​Embed a performance culture within your organisation

• ​Build structures that create high performance in your environment
  

​​About the speakers

​Leah Sutton – Chief Portfolio Talent Officer, Balderton
Leah joined Balderton as Chief Portfolio Talent Officer in July 2023. She provides consultative support on strategic people, and organisational and cultural challenges for our portfolio companies as they scale. Before joining Balderton, Leah spent nearly eight years leading global human resources at Elastic (ESTC), where she led them through 10x people growth, including an IPO and six acquisitions. She has a passion for helping founders think about hiring and developing their leadership teams and scaling their organisations.

Keith Hatter – Founder, PlanetK2
Keith founded PlanetK2 in 2003 because he had a passionate belief that if people played work like the elite played sport, they’d deliver better, stronger and more consistent results, their organisations would flourish and they’d be happier. He spent 20 years in the corporate arena firstly as a Chartered Surveyor in a Central London real estate consultancy, before a rollercoaster ride as MD of the UK’s first national self-storage business. Keith later spent 10 years as a Divisional MD in a FTSE 100 business, employing 25,000 people where he was fortunate to learn from some superb leaders and entrepreneurs.

​Keith works with leaders in some of the world’s best known businesses and has written for/ been featured by the Financial Times, The Sunday Times and more.

​Ludo Lacay – Co-founder and CPO, Napo
Ludo is the Co-founder and CPO at Napo —the all-inclusive insurance and health platform for pet parents! Before founding Napo, he led ads and monetization teams for Facebook Lite and WhatsApp. He also had various product leadership roles in London startups in the health and wellness and homeownership space. He spent his early twenties as one of the world's top poker players, playing the highest poker tournaments and cash games. 

​Andrew Richardson – Managing Partner, Foundation Partners
Andrew is the Co-founder of Foundation Partners, a multi-brand People Consulting group. He started his career in technology recruitment, building La Fosse from 10 to 200 people and launching its people and talent startup advisory function. He then co-founded Eka Ventures, a people and talent-focused GP, raising $100m to invest in pre-seed to series A stage businesses. Post Eka Ventures, he became the Director of People and Operations for Napo, a post-series A insurtech scale-up where he runs people, talent, business, and customer operations. Andrew holds numerous Advisor roles with ImpactVC, FYXER.AI, Abingdon Software & Antler. 

​​​Kim Stringer – People Director at Techspace
Kim is passionate about nurturing growth in fast-paced Tech/SMEs. Having worked at LOVEFiLM, Funding Circle and Cineworld, Kim thrives on guiding companies to their full potential and has a knack for engagement, understanding, and impact.

With an introduction by: Anouk Agussol – Founder, Unleashed
Anouk has been in the people + culture space for the last 20 years. She spent 12 years as an in-house practitioner, helping to scale a number of businesses, such as Kriya [MarketInvoice] and Holiday Extras. She then went on to found her own successful business—Unleashed. Unleashed is a consultancy that has supported over 150 high-growth startups and scaleups to scale through all things People, Culture, and Leadership across various sectors, ranging from 10 to 1000+ people in the UK, Europe and the US.

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​​Foundation Partners
Foundation is a Fractional People consulting practice that supports technology companies from inception to IPO. We work with companies supporting people and talent operations, from talent attraction to performance and development.

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​​​Techspace
Techspace is a flexible office provider for some of the most innovative and ambitious tech companies. Its 7 locations across London and Berlin have become home to a growing European community of 3,500+ members, 75 tech teams and stunning event spaces ready for hire.

​​​​​Across the year, Techspace designs key events to support growing tech teams and its employees – giving members and its wider ecosystem access to important topics across Ops, People, Growth, Tech and Fundraising, down to essential conversations like Mothers at Work and Mental Health.

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