More About Guest, Hassan Dantata:
Hassan Dantata is a tech entrepreneur, speaker & eyewear connoisseur. His entrepreneurship journey began on a hospital bed with a laptop and a dream. In 2012, while in complete isolation and having a life-changing bone marrow transplant with a 50/50 chance of survival, Hassan decided to chase his dream and launch his first e-commerce store.
Fast forward to today, he is the Founder & CEO of a digital agency, Raven & Macaw, with a fast-growing team of 15 full-time employees. From Raven Optical Management Software (SaaS) to Digital Marketing & Web services, Raven & Macaw is a fully integrated digital solution exclusively for the Optical Industry.
Hassan was formally elected as a Manchester Youth Councillor (2016-18), Deputy Member of UK youth parliament (2017-18) and Member of the Greater Manchester Youth Combined Authority (2017-18) representing over 45,000 young people in Manchester on a local, regional and national level. During his tenure, he worked on various local and national campaigns such as Youth Homelessness (Partispace EU), Curriculum4Life, CommonUnity, RadEqual, Don’t Hate, Educate and Portrait Youth. He is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community; an initiative developed and led by young people who are exceptional in their potential, their achievements and their ability to drive global change.
More About Host, Alicia Butler Pierre:
Alicia Butler Pierre is the Founder & CEO of Equilibria, Inc. Her career in operations began over 20 years ago while working as an engineer in various chemical plants and oil refineries. She invented the Kasennu™ framework for business infrastructure and authored, Behind the Façade: How to Structure Company Operations for Sustainable Success. It is the world’s first published book on business infrastructure for small businesses. Alicia hosts the weekly Business Infrastructure podcast with a global audience across 53 countries.
More About Sponsor, HubSpot:
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More About Sponsor, ThinkSmart Whiteboard:
Thinksmart Whiteboard is a Windows App that turns your Tablet PC into a shared whiteboard. It allows you to create a whiteboard on your computer screen, then allows other people to write onto your whiteboard, even if they are in another location! Learn more.