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ELITE offers companies the opportunity to tap into the high-level thinking required for successful expansion. Discover what tools, programmes, advice and guidance are available at your current stage of development.

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Learn how to tap into your growth potential

Enjoy unprecedented access to detailed stories of pioneering business ideas and rapid results from existing members of ELITE, who share their first-hand experiences within our dedicated magazine.

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Welcome to where growth happens

Filled with top-level ideas and thinking, our magazine is dedicated to one goal: helping you grow. Mirroring the ELITE ecosystem, it looks to encourage an atmosphere of shared knowledge and support for all – irrespective of where they may be on the journey.

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Enjoy unique insights from ELITE members

Filled with high-level and first-hand advice, each issue represents the voice of the ELITE community, with members past and present offering up their views and best practice to equip others with the practical tools and confidence needed to navigate even the most complex growth models.

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As a founder or top manager, our magazine will give you an opportunity to read valuable accounts of other paths to growth, as well as different ways of unlocking funding, as you continue to plan and develop.

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Be inspired by our success stories

Find out exactly what it takes to harness your business potential from some of the biggest and brightest leaders in business – who are proud to make ELITE their home.

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Discover ELITE – from the inside

Showcasing some of the best business leaders connected to the ELITE network, the Future Shapers report shines a spotlight on 50 of the most exciting companies operating today, sharing unique insights as to how they have sourced funding and expanded.

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Learn valuable lessons from your peers

Covering five main industry sectors: food & beverage, manufacturing, agriculture, health and technology, the Future Shapers report affords its readers a rare opportunity to draw on growth stories that are directly relevant for them.

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Understand how ELITE could help you

From market disruptors, to companies that have successfully executed plans for international expansion and rapid financial growth, the Future Shapers report enables you to unlock the ways other successful business leaders have grown with ELITE.

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The Future Shapers: Video Series

Being a Future Shaper means having a story that is worth being heard. Each of the 50 companies profiled in our report is innovating, growing and prospering with ELITE.

Here, you will find the stories of six of these fantastic Future Shapers, each of whom share their business journeys and what inspired them to join the ELITE programme.

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Matt Barrett

Adaptive Financial Consulting

Adaptive Financial Consulting builds trading platforms and related infrastructure for financial services, capital and commodity trading markets. It was founded in 2012, and has grown from four co-founders to more than 220 staff, with offices in London, New York, Montreal and Barcelona.

In this video, CEO Matt Barrett shares his motivations and how ELITE has helped the company structure and focus its mission.

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Anna Ferrino

Ferrino

Ferrino is an outdoor equipment specialist, describing itself as being for ‘hiking lovers only’. Based in Turin, Italy, it was founded almost 150 years ago, in 1870 and has a longstanding heritage of innovation and is passionate about working ethically and respecting the planet.

In this video, CEO Anna Ferrino explains her journey with the company and the reasons why she joined ELITE.

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Steve Franks and Paul Thompson

Water Babies

Swimming lessons provider Water Babies is a self-described disruptor, offering classes for young children right down to new-borns. It focuses on the needs of children, structuring the programme around key moments in their development.

In this video, Group CEO and managing director Steve Franks, and owner Paul Thompson talk through their business model, and how ELITE has helped the company to grow.

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Ishani Patel

Lantum

Lantum is a total workforce platform aimed at reducing spend and empowering staff in healthcare. Its platform connects staff to organisations in order to fill n shifts efficiently and improve recruitment retention and system sustainability. It is used globally, and in the UK’s National Health Service.

In this video, co-founder Ishani Patel explains the offering Lantum provides and how it can disrupt health services around the world.

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Claudia Dreier-Poepperl

Calldorado

Calldorado’s engagement and monetisation technology substantially improves the lifetime value of app users. It also funds app owners in a unique way by providing them with marketing budgets to promote their apps in return for a revenue share.

In this video, CEO Claudia Dreier-Poepperl shares the benefits the technology can offer and how ELITE has helped the company to grow.

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David Abrahamovitch

Grind

Grind was established with the aim of bringing the buzzing independent coffeeshop culture of Australia to the UK. The first store was established in Shoreditch in 2011, and the company grew to £5 million turnover in just five years.

In this video, founder David Abrahamovitch talks about the chain’s fast growth and how it differs from so many other coffeeshops on the market.

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About us

Strategic and financial knowledge with the human touch

From peer-to-peer networking to funding opportunities, one-on-one mentoring and expert-led workshops, ELITE brings some of the brightest minds together in one place, all committed to sharing essential knowledge and ideas.

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Who we are

ELITE provides entrepreneurs and top managers with direct access to the capital, skills and network needed for substantial and sustainable growth. ELITE is an ever-expanding global and influential network spanning over 40 countries. We help the most ambitious private companies scale up, structure for the next stages of growth and access capital.

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Membership

Members of ELITE are ambitious private companies from any sector looking to scale up their business and explore funding options; typically companies with £5m+ revenues and/or have raised significant investment or with good historic growth and future potential. Participation is at C-suite level, with other senior management able to attend specific workshops.
Members become part of a vibrant community of entrepreneurs, advisors, investors and key stakeholders – enjoying prestige and unique visibility.

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Our solution

Whether your ambition is to go from local to global, from private to public – or become a market leader going from millions to billions, we can help you achieve your mission. ELITE works to inspire, advise and connect, blending ambition and expertise to help companies identify and navigate a successful growth plan.

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