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Cream of the entrepreneurial crop on Tyneside

A BUSINESSMAN who started with a student loan and amassed £33m before he was thirty will be amongst a host of entrepreneurs coming to the region tomorrow.

Sean O’Connor will be returning to the area he once studied in to share his wealth of ideas and opportunities that helped him amass his personal fortune at the Entrepreneurs’ Forum annual autumn conference.

The former Northumbria University student will be speaking along with former Royal Marine Alan Chambers MBE- who led the first British team on a 70-day walk from Canada to the North Pole without any support- at the Hilton Hotel in Gateshead.

Carole Beverley, chief executive of the Forum, said: “If there’s one entrepreneur who can give us a youthful perspective on how to grow businesses from nothing it’s Sean.

“He attended Northumbria University and was already planning his first entrepreneurial venture in Newcastle by starting a property portfolio”.

Sean who is sandwiched between Daniel Radcliffe and Keira knightly in the Sunday Times young rich list is now running his second business which is a provider of investment and development capital for the low carbon economy.

Carole Beverley added: “His is a great story of how to spot exciting business investment opportunities and, more importantly, when to grasp them and take them forward.”

Other speakers at the conference include, author and entrepreneur Guy Browning, Sir Tom Farmer, founder of Kwik-Fit and owner of Hibernian Football Club and Tony Moloney, CEO of Enterprise Foods.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .