Join us at the first Oratory Business Networking event.
The speakers for the evening will be Old Oratorians Olly Purnell (OS 1985-90), Nigel Verdon (OS 1980-85) and Charlie Gallienne-Schmidt (OS 2004-09). I am very grateful to Olly Purnell for hosting this event at the London office of Q5. The address is Q5, Little Tufton House, 3 Dean Trench Street, Westminster, London, SW1P 3HB.
The focus of this event is entrepreneurship and start-ups; although everyone is very welcome to attend, regardless of experience or profession.
We will begin the evening with a welcome drink from 6.30pm followed by the speakers at 7pm. We will round off the evening with more drinks, nibbles and networking until 8.30pm.
Spaces are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first served basis. The cost is £15 per person with a 50% discount for alumni who left The OS less than 10 years ago. 

Biographies

Olly Purnell
Olly is the managing partner and co-founder of Q5, the 'organisation change' and 'business transformation' consultancy. Launched in 2009, the firm advises on, and delivers, five key consulting offerings: Strategy, Structure, Process, People & Change. Olly works with business leaders to help them clarify their strategies, engage their top teams, and structure the work in a way that will deliver successful results.
Having graduated with a degree in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh, Olly has over 20 years consulting experience behind him.

Nigel Verdon
Nigel Verdon is the CEO and co-founder of Railsbank. He is a well-known finTech entrepreneur and founded three finTech firms Evolution, Currency Cloud and more recently Railsbank.  He sits on the board of FX Options Hedge fund LCJ and previously was a partner at finTech VC fund Orange Growth Capital, worked at Swiss Bank Corp (now UBS) and a director at Dresden Kleinwort Investment Bank - both banks recognised for their innovation in technology.

Charlie Gallienne-Schmidt
Charlie is the Director of Growth at the Ministry of Startups, a company that helps startup businesses and entrepreneurs find the most affordable workspace. The company also operates as a learning resource for all things ‘startup’ with information, workshops and talks. Having graduated from Nottingham with a degree in Management Studies with Spanish, Charlie has over five year’s experience in start-ups.