About Team
Director
Patrick Blunt MBA DMS ACIS MCIM MCMI Cert. Ed
With a family business background Patrick, as the first CEO of Business Extra, brings a strong passion and vision to the challenging task of creating a more dynamic enterprise culture for Southwark.
With substantial wide ranging professional knowledge and experience he has lived and worked in some 36 countries and has considerable breadth and depth of experience in business and enterprise development.
He is also the elected Chair of the Southwark Chamber of Commerce since 2006 and Managing Director of the London Knowledge Innovation Centre (LKIC)
Business Advisors:
Eric Ekuban
Eric Ekuban is an experienced Business Adviser with years of experience in the business advice field. His client experience is varied, encompassing retailers, manufacturers and other service sector oriented clients. Eric has specialised over the years in providing business support to small business start-up’s or SME’s and other Micro businesses.Eric’s primary objective is to ensure that all clients receive un-biased and holistic business advice and support in order to start-up in business and succeed in that venture.
Guy Stanley
Guy brings a wealth of business experience with him to Business Extra for the benefit of local business support. After some thirty years experience in retail banking, including being a Small Business Manager, he has actively been involved in providing business support in area. He spent four years as the business adviser at the Borough Market and helped to lay down a firm foundation that has lead to the Borough Market become a significant London tourist attraction.
Yohannes Bitowlign
Adrian Tindall
Adrian has a strong client services background and provides administrative and marketing support for the dynamic full service innovation incubator support services for the London Knowldge Innovation Centre based at the South Bank Technopark, Elephant and Castle, London SE1.
Business Information Officer
(Panagotia) Yota Strigopolou
Yota is a very experienced business information officer, who speaks three languages and has through her friendly support, helped several thousand mult-cultural clients, get the up to date advice and information that is needed for sustaining a successful business.