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Super evening at the UK Business Angels Association Awards with Denise McQuaid. Great to spend a few hours with Jenny Tooth OBE, Roderick Beer (& his bathtub gin) & Charles Harrewyn UKBAA (who’s now fully finessed his #JamesBond persona) & also our British Business Bank sponsors Warren Ralls & Stephen Welton CBE. Also fab to catch up with many friends & collaborators from the UK investment ecosystem (Gurpreet Manku Deepali Nangia Kevin Withane (FRSA) 😃 David Fogel Roxane Sanguinetti Chris Adelsbach Helen Oldham Triin Linamagi Timothy Mills Henry Whorwood Kristina Pereckaite) & to finally meet Andrew Gaule in person to discuss Clew Bay & Irish airports (or the lack of them!). We missed you Andrea Sinclair. Wonderful dinner company and conversations with Hannah Bernard OBE Neil MacDougall & Irene Graham OBE and we even managed to catch up with a couple of Northern Ireland folks afterwards at the drinks - good to see you Jenny Ervine & Noel McKenna (small world indeed Eileen Mooney!). What an amazing investor network Jenny & Rod have built over the years & even more amazing for us to be part of the #UKBAA “family”. Sad to part with my UK Business Angel of the Year title but happy that it went to this year’s deserving winner (along with my tiara) to Nick Button-Brown - I’ll be in touch to book a call with you Nick - this is one accolade with strings attached 😂😂😂 It also permitted me the opportunity to update our investor audience with the great progress we’ve made at AwakenAngels in the last year. If anyone reading this is interested in joining our angel syndicate and starting to invest in Irish founders, please do give Denise or I a shout.
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Clearly another amazing awards evening! So good to see you Mary McKenna, MBE handing over as Angel of the Year to Nick Button-Brown. Congratulations to both of you for the last year, the year to come and everything you both do for the startup eco system. Also a special mention here to Kristina Pereckaite & Jake Fox (South East Angels), Wibke Stoffers and Kevin Withane (FRSA) for winning their awards! I may not have been there with you all in person, but was definitely there in spirit.
Thank you for the kind words (and the encouragement too), i have amazing shoes to fill!
Thanks to the wonderful Mary McKenna, MBE for all your amazing work as UKBAA Angel of the Year 2023-4 Looking forward to continuing our work together to increase the number of women Angels backing great women founders across the UK. Thanks for passing on the baton to Nick Button-Brown who is our new Angel of the Year for 2024-5.- congrats to Nick our next Ambassador ! Onwards and upwards Mary!
It was a super Awards celebration, well done Jenny and Roderick, and it was lovely catching up with you Mary and Denise and hearing the fantastic achievements of AwakenAngels
Great to see you Mary. See you in the West. Slainte.
Was great to see you Mary, on top form as ever!
It was brilliant to see you! thanks Jenny Tooth OBE for the kind invite.
It was great to meet you, Mary!
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3moYou are a hard act to follow Mary McKenna, MBE