Lascelles Lawrence

Angels Den exists to help entrepreneurs and SME owners get the investment they need to take their businesses into high growth.

Our model of low upfront fees means that our success is based on the success of businesses getting funded by business Angels (High Net Worth Individuals) both in the UK and around the world. TV programmes like Dragon’s Den have promoted the concept, and whilst we believe this has raised greater awareness of Angel funding, we believe the process can be painless, quick and empowering to entrepreneurs.

We are the largest Angel finance network in Europe and the Far East and welcome enquiries from entrepreneurs from those regions

I also work with Nova Capital Partners, who are based in New York and Johannesburg, as a deal originator looking for corporate finance and investment banking deals such as:

• Capital Raising and Financing

• Mergers & Acquisitions

• Divestitures

• Valuation Analysis

• Leveraged Buyouts

• Restructurings

• Recapitalizations

We conduct business across Southern, Eastern and Central Europe, Africa and Asia and our favoured industries are:

• Agriculture/Food

• Transportation

• Energy

• Manufacturing

• Financial Services (banking, micro-credit, insurance) • Telecommunications • Technology • Cleantech • Biosciences • Other Utilities

Deal criteria are minimum deal size $20M ( we can go up to $700M) with clients who have any two of either: Turnover $50m plus, Net assets $10M or net profits after tax $10M.

My core business activities areas are:

Empower Executive Search (Managing Partner)

I established my own practice, Empower Executive Search, where the ethos is "People First in Business" and "Enabling Better Futures" to encapsulate what I also try to do in my everyday life.

I work with "star" candidates and are constantly seeking successful, driven candidates with passion and vision seeking to partner with clients in my network to create personal and corporate value and wealth.

Core to this activity is working with entrepreneurs, financiers, investors, business angles, venture capitalists and their professional advisors such as accountants, solicitors and lawyers building business teams in new ventures, corporate restructurings and management by-out/buy-in scenarios where strong management is crucial to the commercial success of the enterprise and it's ability to raise capital and funding.

Helping clients recruit diverse boards and management teams

In today's competitive business world the goal is to employ the best talent for the job.

Most organisations will have a diversity policy statement which will state, inter alia, "we welcome applications from suitably qualified candidates irrespective of race, age, gender, disability, religion, sexual preference" etc.

However, in today's world, the best person could come from all sorts of social, ethnic, age, religious, gender or sexual preference and disability backgrounds.

Does your organisations recruitment outcomes reflect this, particularly, at the senior level? This is often where one finds that 'the best people' seem to share the same backgrounds rather than displaying the diversity existing in the environment in which the organisation operates.

In light of this fact many businesses are beginning to explore how they think, define and assess 'the best'.

Appointing people from a broad range of backgrounds, cultures and orientations is entirely consistent with appointing the best person. They are finding that they need to reflect the diversity of their customer and other stakeholder groups in their workforces, management teams and boardrooms to deliver effective results. Workers, managers and directors need to be drawn from these pools of diversity.

Empower Executive Search is a diversity firm that can consistently demonstrate these principles and claim to have perfect insight into these issues. We use this knowledge when working with our clients to compile shortlists of suitable candidates, drawn from our extensive and diverse network of contacts across sectors. We also help our client's design an approach to selection - starting from job definition through to appointee induction - that helps them inject this kind of diversity into those areas of the organisation deemed most appropriate.

Using these best of breed quality recruitment solutions on your key staffing requirements gives you added personal and career kudos from you, the hring manager, becoming recognised as being good at creating winning teams that impact the bottom line by reducing hiring costs and increasing profitability and productivity.

I am also Director of Fulfillment for ESP Inc, www.espusa.com. We are a full service IT consultancy to the Investment Banking world.

Please contact me to discuss your requirements.