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[Almost] "Winter Drinks": The CxO Take: How Your Ops Leader Shapes Organisational Success
As the year is slowly coming to a close, and before all the Christmas parties kick in, we would love to welcome you in for an Operations Nation x Techspace event!
(The last Operations Nation event of the year! 🤯)
Join us for an evening of connection and conversation on the importance of Operations - from the perspective of non-Ops people. 💡
If you're a business leader NOT in Operations: Do you want to learn more about what the Operations team does and how that impacts your business area and growth? 👀
If you're a business leader in Operations: Do you want to know what other leaders outside Operations think of your area - and what they expect from it? 👀
Then this event was created for YOU. ✨
Agenda 📌
6:00 PM - Register and settle in with a drink 🍻
6:30 PM - Welcome from Operations Nation and Techspace 👋
6:45 PM - Connect with Ops and non-Ops professionals in a fun and informal guided experience 💬
7:15 PM - Panel discussion - see speakers below! 💡
7:45 PM - More time and space to connect and meet new professionals 💬
Our panelists 👋
Judy Boniface-Chang
Chief Customer Officer @ birdie, Former CMO and CCO @ Mailjet | Representing the CMO / CCO perspective
I am passionate about scaling early-stage ventures by building high-performing teams and implementing the strategic structures and processes necessary for growth.
With a specialization in go-to-market (GTM) strategy and customer success operations, I guide SaaS companies from their formative stages through to successful exits.
My experience spans general management and strategy consulting across the US, EMEA, and APAC, with deep expertise in B2B SaaS, particularly in healthtech and martech.
Known for combining analytical rigor with strong communication and leadership skills, I thrive in dynamic environments where I can drive both strategic vision and operational execution.
Prakash Shah
Chief Financial Officer @ Untap Health, Light Initiative Ltd, Group CFO @ Digistain®, Founder of Fully Financial Ltd and Startup CFO UK | Representing the CFO perspective
CFO/FD - An entrepreneurial ACA/CFA trained management professional, with strong analytical and strategic planning capability. Working at board level and experienced with investor relations, especially with SME companies.
I am experienced in financial management, strategy and fundraising. I run my own business, Fully Financial Ltd (www.fullyfinancial.com), co-owner of Fun-Keys4Kids, a family business (www.fun-keys4kids.com), group CFO of several tech startups ( Lucida Medical, Imabi, Light Initiative) and Bluebird Care.
With a deep knowledge of finance and fundraising in the offline and digital industry I am highly experienced in financial management of SaaS, online platforms, apps, eCommerce, Social Media, SEO, classifieds and media.
I excel in the following roles: CFO, Finance Director, NED, Entrepreneurship, Investor, Board Adviser, Non-exec director.
MB Christie
Non-Executive Director @ Open Banking, Moneysupermarket Group, and Social Finance, Inc. Former Chief Product Officer @ Simply Business | Representing the CPO perspective
MB Christie’s executive career spans over 25 years of leading fast growth digital organisations (QXL, Rightmove, Tech Nation) and spearheading digital transformations at leading brands (the Financial Times, TUI Group, Simply Business) in both Chief Product Officer and COO roles.
Her specialities are scaling digital, tech and data products and operations in fast growth businesses. MB is now a portfolio NED.
She serves on the board of FTSE listed moneysupermarket.com, and Open Banking Ltd. She chairs We are One Tech, a social enterprise focused on creating a more inclusive tech start-up ecosystem. And she is a NED on Social Finance, a non-profit best known for creating Social Impact Bonds.
MB, originally from the USA, graduated from LSE, and started her business career as an entrepreneur in Prague, Czech Republic in the early 1990s.
Luke Mawbey
Interim CTO @ Psyomics, former CTO @ Healios, Lantum, News Chamber, former VP of Engineering @ ComplyAdvantage | Representing the CTO perspective
And our wONderful moderator:
Ben Gateley
Co-Founder & CEO @ CharlieHR, former COO @ CharlieHR, former Co-Founder & Director @ Born Social, former Co-Founder @ The Eleven Enterprises Limited | Representing the COO-turned-CEO perspective
Come along if you're 👋
A business leader, from any function - CTOs, Heads of Growth/Marketing, CPOs, CFOs, CPOs, CEOs...
An operations professionals - COOs, Heads of Ops, VP Ops, Director of Ops...
Maybe skip this one if ❌
You're still in an early stage of your career. This evening may be less valuable for you.
A part of the Tech-Narnia series at Techspace Goswell Road 🔥
Enter the social calendar for the most ambitious tech teams this autumn! ✨
Techspace has collaborated with the ecosystem’s most significant players to transform its new building into your hotspot for inspiring stories, fresh connections and hot takes on hot topics. 👀
New events dropping every week! View the full line-up here, and learn more about the new building: Techspace Goswell Road. 💡
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Operations Nation
Operations Nation is a community-powered knowledge hub for operations leaders. Led by a group of women who are seasoned ops professionals themselves, our community is home to 1,000+ startup and scaleup ops professionals from all over the globe. 🗺️
We believe that operational excellence is an essential ingredient to a successful business. To elevate the number of startups that can scale, we're equipping operations professionals with the skills and tools they need to thrive in their roles. 🚀
On top of our regular events online and offline, we also run training courses for first-time and aspiring COOs, and we're writing the world’s first-ever book for startup COOs, by startup COOs. ✨
Techspace
Techspace is a flexible office provider (from hotdesks to private offices) 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.
Every 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.
Subscribe to their newsletter here for future invites! ✅
Food and drinks sponsor: Front
Front empowers operations teams to streamline communication, ensuring exceptional support and seamless efficiency that drives business growth. ✨
Front is on a mission to enable five-star customer service for every team, every day. 🚀
Relationships are hard to maintain when a business grows. That’s why they've built the AI-powered, all-in-one customer service platform built for collaboration. 🙌
Front has reimagined the ways teams communicate with customers, across all your channels, to bring customer conversations into the center of your business. 💬
Today, more than 9,000 organizations rely on Front to drive growth and deliver exceptional customer service at scale. ⭐