Geeta Sidhu-Robb is a multi-award winning entrepreneur and founder of Nosh Detox, a company offering bespoke health packages and unique, natural health solutions to achieve optimal well-being.

Nosh Detox has been valued at £3 million with a £700,000 turnover in just its fourth year. The business grew 100% in 2009, 200% in 2010 and over 300% in 2011.

Geeta's many accolades include: Exceptional Working Mother of the Year at the Everywoman Annual Conference (2008); Best Diet Delivery Zest Magazine (2009); Vogue Magazine's ‘Best Detox’; Business Woman of The Year at the World Sikh Awards (2011); and Best Detox in London; Evening Standard Magazine (2011).

Don't assume a socially conscious angel will be a soft touch. To win their money, you've got to get a lot of things right.

Angel investors bridge the gap between the money you have and the money you need to grow your business. Angels provided $8.9 billion for 26,300 entrepreneurs in the first half of 2011, according to the Center for Venture Research. That’s a nice pot of money, and by all indications, it’s even larger now.

Still, getting your share of it into your social enterprise is no small feat. Most pitches to angels fail.

Susan Cooney is Co-Founder and Head of Marketing & Sales at MahiFX, a new proprietary-built foreign exchange trading platform which launched earlier this year and gives retail FX customers access to same tight spreads and cutting edge technology as institutional FX traders. 

Prior to founding MahiFX, Susan worked in forex trading at investment banks. In mid 2004, whilst she was working at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein selling e-FX technology to UK banks, Susan was asked by colleagues David Cooney and Tim Cartledge to join the team moving across to Barclays Capital. David was later to become her husband and co-founder.

In 2005 Susan was asked to recruit and head up a new team to expand Barclays’ institutional e-FX sales efforts in Europe, where she took the controversial approach of hiring people based on their character, rather than experience. In what was probably an Investment Banking industry first, Barclays backed this initiative and what was jokingly referred to as ‘Barbie’s army’ was born. 8 people were hired from all walks of life. The initiative was a success, which contributed to tremendous growth in Barclay’s eFX market share.

Susan went on to hire teams in Singapore, Hong Kong and the US. Susan’s e-FX career has taken her to many countries of the world, meeting many people and has given her valuable insight into the requirements of an FX trader. Insight that has helped her to contribute to much of the MahiFX functionality.

Kathy Douglass is CEO of The Greensheet, a Texas-based publication connecting local buyers and sellers, with nearly a million readers - the largest free weekly circulation in the state.

The Greensheet was founded in 1970 by Kathy Douglass’s mother Helen Gordon, a tough entrepreneur who faced incredible resistance from the male-dominated Texas business network. Ms. Gordon showed great resolve in getting the company off the ground and turned The Greensheet into a classified publication powerhouse By the time she retired, Ms. Gordon had grown the company to one of the most successful in the state.

Kathy picked up where her mother left off in 1994, continuing the strong performance of The Greensheet. In 2005, the company successfully entered the offset printing business at a time when the move was very difficult to make. That same year, Ms. Douglass managed to secure The New York Times as a client. The Greensheet has printed the Houston edition of the Times as well as several other major publications ever since.