Event
5 things I’ve learned about building a business
Workshop Overview:
- The biggest problem facing start-ups.
- How to build a sustainably different business model
- The biggest problem you will have building your team
- Why culture is more important than strategy
- Why you need to focus on what matters
- How to develop a super power
Date
13.10.2023
Time
🇦🇪 Dubai / 11 AM (GST/UTC +4)
Cost
Free
Speaker
WIO Bank
Anthony Thomson is the former Founder and chairman of three banks on two continents.
In 2010 he founded Metro Bank, the first new High Street bank in the UK for over 150 years.
It was voted the best bank for customer service in the UK in 2013. It started with 2 people and an idea in a café in 2008, by 2015 it employed 3,500 people and had a $5 billion valuation.
In 2014 he founded and chaired Atom Bank, the first mobile bank in the UK. It was rated the number 6 global fintech by KPMG in 2016 and was the most recommended bank in the UK in 2016.
In 2020 he co-founded and chaired Bank 86 400, Australia’s first successful digital bank. It was bought by National Australia Bank after three years for $440m.
He currently serves on the advisory board of ila bank in Bahrain and Jordan, is a director of Wio Bank, and Director of Humm, one of Australia’s biggest non-bank lenders.