Profile

Ketan Makwana is a renowned international speaker and serial entrepreneur who has started, scaled a sold multiple businesses.

In a response to the emerging skills gap between education to employment and enterprise Ketan launched Enterprise Lab in 2011 which is now operating in 11 countries training 100,000 people a year.

In 2012 Ketan founded and delivered Youth Enterprise Live backed by the Prime Minister and the UK’s largest event focussed on Education, Employment and Enterprise for 15-30 year olds… leading on from this took a position as Special Advisor to the Prime Minister on Youth Policy.

Ketan is the Head of Operations at Rockstar Startup & Rockstar Hubs UK’s leading funding and mentoring organisation that has delivered over £20m in funding and supported over 3000 start-up businesses in the UK.

Ketan is an advisor to UK Government on youth and enterprise policies, works with International Governments & Ministries on Enterprise Eco-System Development and sits on many advisory boards and panels… further work includes ambassador for UKTI and Foreign & Commonwealth Offices related to Enterprise development in countries across the globe.