20. Hema Patel - How Boards Accelerate Early-Stage Startups

The journey of a startup CEO should be the most rewarding yet challenging experience undertaken in a career. This is why we frequently advocate for startup CEOs to seek support, formally, from someone who has 'been there and done it'. But would does this look like in practice? 

As a strategic and commercial expert in digital solutions, Hema Patel has spent her career immersed in the deep tech, climate, media and creative sectors, developing an in-depth understanding of how to accelerate growth and make a disruptive impact in highly competitive markets.

Lending her functional expertise to various startups to help guide them through their all-important Seed and Series A stages, Hema drives strategy on the boards of game-changing tech platforms like ReMake. Her position as a board member at Oxford Semantic Technologies also sees her involved in developing and commercialising the first market-ready high-performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine.

Informed both by her current board roles and her executive career at industry-leading institutions like News Corp, Microsoft, Facebook and Adobe, Hema joins Nurole CEO Oliver Cummings for a retrospective of her journey into the boardroom that explores the advantages and opportunities SMEs and startups can unlock by investing in board-level talent from the singular perspective of a marketing professional.

Whether you're a founder or CEO seeking to scale your business or a prospective board member who wants to better define their value offering, you won't want to miss Hema's insights.

Host: Oliver Cummings

Producer: Will Felton

Editor: Penelope Coumau

Music: Kate Mac

Audio: Nick Kold

Email: podcast@nurole.com

Web: https://www.nurole.com/nurole-podcast-enter-the-boardroom