LSE London Alumni Talks

In this episode we speak to Vanessa Viana, Global Managing Partner at Capital Lab Ventures, a venture capital platform with a $100 million fund focussed on deep tech with offices in Sao Paolo and London. Vanessa has over 18 years of experience in the fields of Private Equity, M&A and Strategic Consulting and is a founding member of the Brazilian chapter of the Association for Corporate Group (ACG- Brazil) and co-founder of Bradesco Private Equity acting as the General Partner of a $BRL 2 ...

In this episode we speak to Suhrid Patel, Co-Founder of Impagro, an initiative focussed on building environmentally sustainable supply chains with India’s farmers. Suhrid has over 10 years experience working with the agriculture sector in numerous countries across Asia, Africa and Europe. He has a masters degree in Development Management from the LSE and is a former Overseas Development Institute (ODI) Fellow. In this podcast Suhrid discusses his journey from LSE student to agricultural entre...

In this episode of LSE London Alumni Talks we speak to Adam French, former CEO of Scalable Capital, a digital wealth management unicorn and currently a partner at Houghton Street Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm based at the LSE. In this podcast Adam speaks to us about his entrepreneurial journey from LSE to Goldman Sachs during the 2008 financial crisis to developing and growing Scalable Capital. Adam also gives us his reflection on the experiences that helped to shape his entre...

In this podcast we speak to Michael Muthukrishna, Associate Professor of Economic Psychology at the LSE. In this podcast Michael speaks to us about Culturalytics, his initiative that helps organisations to measure and manage organisational culture and how this can be used in strategic planning and policy. In this podcast Michael talks to us about what we mean by culture, useful ways to think about culture as well as unpacking these ideas in the context of the value they can bring to add...

Today we speak to Bilal Baloch, Co-Founder and COO of GlobalWonks, a software company that uses artificial intelligence to deliver expert insights to organizations worldwide. As well as his entrepreneurial ventures Bilal has an academic background with over over 10 years’ of experience in learning how decisions are made within organizations. Bilal completed his Bachelor’s at the LSE, holds a Master’s degree in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tuft...