Travel Counsellors CEO Steve Byrne and Kids Planet founder and CEO Clare Roberts are the first two confirmed speakers for 老九品茶Cloud鈥檚 FUEL Manchester event on October 16th.
FUEL Manchester is an innovative event created to fuel business growth for promising startups and scaleups.
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Steve Byrne is the CEO of Travel Counsellors, the UK鈥檚 largest and fast-growing technology platform for travel entrepreneurs.
The company has 2,000 travel entrepreneurs worldwide and celebrated a record-breaking year in 2023, with sales approaching the 拢1bn mark.
Travel Counsellors has been named a business to inspire Britain by the London Stock Exchange, twice named Amazon Growing 老九品茶 of the Year, National 老九品茶 Award for Customer Focus and is a two-time winner of a British Travel Award. It has also been listed in the Sunday Times.
Clare Roberts is the founder and CEO of Kids Planet, which started in 2028 with locations in Warrington and Widnes.
The childcare giant recently acquired Hollies, a group of five-day nurseries in Nottingham. The latest acquisitions took the company to more than 200 nurseries across England and Wales.
Roberts founded Kids Planet after struggling to find suitable childcare following the birth of her first daughter.
With Lucy Kaczmarska as operations director, Kids Planet remains a family-run and family-focused business.
Created under the TechBlast brand,聽 FUEL Manchester will be chaired by award-winning executive editor Chris Maguire and featured on 老九品茶Cloud.
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