Charles Cracknell, is a recipient of The Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion 2009   He is the Employment and Youth Enterprise Manager, Hull City Council.
He  set up in 2004 Hull's Youth Enterprise Partnership that now has fifty four member organizations from the private public and voluntary sectors that campaigns and supports the city's enterprising young people. Charles also established the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank with private and public sector funds that gives grants to the city's enterprising young people. Charles is the driving force behind Hull's Global Entrepreneurship Week celebrations, every  November, that has attracted national and international attention and participation.
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Kota Purushotham is associated with Management and Rural Resource Development Foundation (MRDF), Andhrapradesh, India. He is also Chairman of TV NETWORK FOR Millennium Development Goals and ABHAYAHASTHA, an Agrarian Rural Research and Training Institute for Livelihood Promotions and Community Development under Co-operative sector.

He promoted and propagated a concept called ABCDE, which is Agro Business Cooperative Development Enterprise. He is a Post Graduate in Economics and has a PG Diploma in Co-Operative Management.

Felix Tonog is a manager at PBSP’s Enterprise Development Group. His research interests include MSME development, labor migration and corporate social responsibility.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and Masters in Business Management, and is a candidate of M.S. in Economics. About PBSP Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) is the largest corporate-led, non-profit social development foundation in the Philippines. PBSP is at the forefront in the fight against poverty through trailblazing corporate citizenship programs developed and implemented with the strategic commitment of more than 240 PBSP member-companies. Four million Filipinos have been assisted by PBSP in the past 38 years. PBSP enjoins businesses, large or small, to commit resources wisely to programs that assist communities towards their self-reliance and improved quality of life

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Mr. V. N Prasad was formerly Economic Specialist with American Embassy, New Delhi; External collaborator with ILO projects; Senior Economic Advisor, World Association for Small and Medium Enterprises. A Post-Graduate in Economics and have specialised in Economic and Marketing Research. Have over 38 years of experience in studying industrial sector, particularly the issues related to SME development, identifying business opportunities and conducting research studies and preparing reports. Has been associated with over 18 economic and market research studies (field-based) while working with Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi and World Association for Small and Medium Enterprises (WASME), Noida, Uttar Pradesh. These included Export potential surveys, Demand studies, Overseas market surveys, Institutional framework for exports, status and capabilities of specific sectors and policy-related aspects. Have had represented WASME at various national, including then SSI Board, and international meetings

Jayadev Menon, a trainer and coach, helps people find their innate strengths and abilities; his methods permit participants discover and remove the roadblocks created by their own attitude and behavior.

He has worked with three of India’s leading Corporate Houses – Godrej, Escorts and Reliance. A National Talent Scholar (NCERT) he has been actively involved in the facilitated learning process from a very young age, having been a tutor right from junior school. His love for this practice meant that he maintained the role of tutor even after he got a full time job.

Jayadev Menon has over 25 years’ of corporate experience – mainly in Sales and Business Development. He was a General Manager with Reliance Communications in his last assignment. In all three Companies he has been a trainer, coach and people developer. Both at Escotel and Reliance he has held positions of Training Head. At Escotel he helped set up the entire Sales Training framework and personally conducted 100s of hours of training – he also conducted training on Quality Management and Customer Service.