Business Keynote with Sherry Coutu CBE
This video was filmed live as part of the FutureLearn Festival of Learning, June 2020.
Sherry Coutu is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor who serves on the boards of companies, charities, and universities. She has invested in more than 60 companies as an angel (including Linkedin, Zoopla, Lovefilm (Amazon), New Energy Finance (Bloomberg)) and 5 venture capital firms. She has been awarded three Honorary Doctorates from The University of Bristol, The University of Manchester and the Open University for her work in Education and the Economy and was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to entrepreneurship in the New Year's Honours List 2013. In this session, she presents a review of the solutions available to small businesses and charities facing challenges due to COVID-19 dramatically reducing their revenues.