Episode 193: On Catalytic Capital with The Money Maker, Eric Collins

Greetings Glocal Citizens! For this week’s episode I found myself in a hidden gem of a community in East London with a not so hidden gem in the European investment space, Eric Collins. Eric, born an raised in the southern United States, has called London home for the nearly 10 years. He is a serial entrepreneur, investor, technology executive and host of Channel 4 business show, The Money Maker, which is based on the highly successful US show The Profit on CNBC. Eric has spent much of his career building the value of digital companies through innovative strategies at public and private companies including AOL, TimeWarner, Tegic/Nuance Communications, MobilePosse, SwiftKey/Microsoft and most recently, Touch Surgery, where he was COO. He sits on the boards of companies in San Francisco and London, including Tech Nation. In 2011, President Obama, a fellow Harvard Law School classmate, appointed him to the Small Business Administration’s Council on Underserved Communities. Eric is also a brand ambassador for luxury car manufacturer, Audi, and the youth charity The Prince’s Trust. In 2018, The Financial Times named him among the UK’s top 100 BAME leaders in technology. Since 2019, he has been voted one of the most influential Black people in Britain on The Powerlist. In his award-winning book, We Don’t Need Permission: How Black Business Can Change Our World (Penguin), Eric argues investing in Black and underrepresented entrepreneurs is the surest, fastest socio-economic game changer there is. And with his work as a Founder and CEO of Impact X Capital we believe him! Where to find Eric? www.impactxcapital.com On LinkedIn On X On Instagram What’s Eric reading? J. Califoria Cooper What’s Eric watching? Purlie Victorious The Lehman Trilogy Other topics of interest: Revisit fellow Glocal Citizen Natasha Moore Greensboro, North Carolina Tuskegee University Bennett College North Carolina A&T State University On Charles Blow’s The Devil You Know Roger Fisher’s Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving On the Black Power Movement About the inaugural SBA Council on Underserved Communities and Chair, Cathy Hughes Audra McDonald & Brian Stokes Mitchell Perform 'Wheels of a Dream' From RAGTIME First Black Mayor of Charlotte Harvey Gantt Former Governor of Virgina Douglas Wilder GiveBLACK About Ric Lewis No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency About MarshmallowSpecial Guest: Eric Collins.