The Team

Karen Melonie Gould is the Founder and CEO of Gateway2investment - Raising Investment Globally with our New skilled Team. We produce Killer Pitch Decks and documents for our clients and have over 40000 Investors in our 'DEAL ROOM' I am an International Speaker/Author, and my sweet spot is Family Offices/UHNWI Investors which compliments my Partners both ex VC Europe and USA. As I am passionate about my 'sandpit' which I continue to carve out I look to inspire any Founder to become Great!
We have now launched our new G2I platform which is active and live a SAAS model AI platform for Family Offices/UHN/Investors to source ‘DEAL FLOW’ and for Founders to join us as a paid subscription.

We really have brought Footprints Private Family Office in Mayfair London to be the best Events for Family Offices/UHN/Investors which is a Private Club with now over 4000 Members globally in its 14th year with a minimum 4 major Events per year.

Karen started out her own Entrepreneur journey back in the 90’s with two successful business one which she created and started in the Dating industry which she took to a £10m turnover within 3 years. The other business was a Training and Business Development Consultancy which had clients from Virgin – and other Top FTSE clients in the UK. Karen was one of the first in the UK to set up in May 2014 her Alternative finance platform which has been outsourced to a leading UK competitor using their technology and relaunched 2023.

Karen Melonie Gould CEO

Books

Partner

Cedric Torossian- Serial entrepreneur, fund and start up advisor specialised in the digital economy, innovation, data analysis and strategy LinkedIn. Cedric leads on Impact Investing & ESG with Pollenise.

Broad range of experience in growing start-ups from founder, non-exec board member, advisor and mentor building on 15+ years’ experience as an analyst for Wall Street investors working on investment strategies and performance projections of top listed retail, consumer and media companies such as Carrefour, Ralph Lauren, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. Proven track record of deliv-ering strategic recommendations in fast moving and disrupted digital sectors both for small businesses and listed corporations.

Technology Partner

Wrightway Digital have vast combined experience with e-commerce experience as far back as 1997 and also includes operating software development and outsourcing business in Sri Lanka.

Personal Advisor/Raises for Funds

Strategic relationship-marketing (direct introductions and media) for senior venture financiers, £mm lenders, equity investors and select related events companies' CEOs. Over many years Simon also created, hosted and advised many successful by-invitation-only functions and events for genuine single family offices and venture financiers. He now lives in Japan, but works exclusively with UK based clients.

Legal

Your allies, confidantes, co-pilots, consiglieres. Some of the best minds around. Thinking, advising, doing and connecting – pulling it all together to help you overcome challenges and achieve your ambition

Non-Executive Director

Pamela has over 25 years of experience in the public relations and business sectors with multi-national corporations, government officials and country leaders. Serving as a Public Relations Consultant and Advisor to 2 Presidents of Indonesia, several Ministers of the Indonesian Cabinet and the Founder of the Indonesian Stock Exchange, Pamela was also the brainchild of the 'Jakarta Go Green" project for the incumbent President of the Republic of Indonesia, Mr. Joko Widodo.

Associate Partner - Dubai

Charlie is 'Sports agent for the tech world'. He specialises in capitalising and commercialising exceptional ventures on the global scale. He has an appetite for three core vertices: Tech, Health & Medtech and Climate tech. Over his career, he has a proven track record in 3 core areas: Innovation - He has groomed innovation with some of the top accelerators in the world such as TechStars (London, Toronto & Tel Aviv) & FI (Silicon Valley which is backed by NASA), Commercial - He co-founded and scaled one of the leading digital innovation studios in the UK working with the likes of Warner Brothers, Lego, Selfridges & more, Investment - Founder and MD of the global investment network Peach Collective that specialises in off-market deal flow.

Financial/Valuations/Cash Flow

Chartered Accountants, Xero Accountants, Technology Accountants Milton Keynes - Alexander Rosse

Rashesh is one of the co-founders at Alexander Rosse, a fully qualified Chartered Accountant and Chartered Director and holds a first class honours degree in Maths & Management from King's College, London. He has over 25 years’ plus experience in public practice and industry and commerce with leading blue chip companies. He has a successful and proven track record of delivery on some $5bn corporate finance transactions (acquisitions, disposals and fund raising, IPO), with a particular focus on high growth SME's within the tech space. Logo and photo attached.

Financial

Alternative Finance Advisor from Bridging Loans to Invoice Financing.

Financial Director

Family Financial Centre (FFC)  was founded by Joe Itua in 2013. He is a qualified accountant with  many years experience in business and accountancy.

Prior to starting FFC, he  worked extensively in the SME business environment and the voluntary sector. He also worked as a Freelance Accountant and Tax Adviser. He therefore fully understands the internal and external problems most small businesses face from time to time. He has sound knowledge of accounting principles and a profound understanding of the needs of a wide variety of businesses. He has a passion to help businesses achieve their goals.