Travel Counsellors CEO Steve Byrne and Kids Planet founder and CEO Clare Roberts are the first two confirmed speakers for BusinessCloud’s FUEL Manchester event on October 16th.
FUEL Manchester is an innovative event created to fuel business growth for promising startups and scaleups.
It’s two events in one, beginning with a whistle-stop discussion of some of the big questions facing businesses and finishing with a series of exclusive, invite-only masterclasses for a cohort of exciting companies.
Supported by GM Business Growth Hub, Bruntwood SciTech and the University of Salford Business School, this year’s FUEL Manchester takes place at No.1 Circle Square, Oxford Road, Manchester.
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Steve Byrne is the CEO of Travel Counsellors, the UK’s largest and fast-growing technology platform for travel entrepreneurs.
The company has 2,000 travel entrepreneurs worldwide and celebrated a record-breaking year in 2023, with sales approaching the £1bn mark.
Travel Counsellors has been named a business to inspire Britain by the London Stock Exchange, twice named Amazon Growing Business of the Year, National Business Award for Customer Focus and is a two-time winner of a British Travel Award. It has also been listed in the Sunday Times.
Clare Roberts is the founder and CEO of Kids Planet, which started in 2028 with locations in Warrington and Widnes.
The childcare giant recently acquired Hollies, a group of five-day nurseries in Nottingham. The latest acquisitions took the company to more than 200 nurseries across England and Wales.
Roberts founded Kids Planet after struggling to find suitable childcare following the birth of her first daughter.
With Lucy Kaczmarska as operations director, Kids Planet remains a family-run and family-focused business.
Created under the TechBlast brand, FUEL Manchester will be chaired by award-winning executive editor Chris Maguire and featured on BusinessCloud.
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