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About Richard Lucas and Kimon Fountoukidis
About Richard Lucas
I a business and social entrepreneur. My businesses are primarily in technology. My social entrepreneurship is focussed on community building and supporting entrepreneurship. I organise pro-entrepreneurship meet ups, and lead workshops at School, University and Business School.
About Kimon Fountoukidis
I am a hands on entrepreneur. I like to create things and solve problems. While I have quite a lot of experience with M&A I find money quite boring and am definitely less interested in purely financial investments. I feel like I have one more big project in me and I would like it to make a positive impact on society. I am passionate about my 5 kids, Greece and the game of poker.
Richard Lucas is a business and social entrepreneur who founded, led and/or invested in more than 30 businesses.
Kimon Fountoukidis is the founder of both Argos Multilingual and PMR. Both companies were founded in the mid 90s with zero capital and both have gone on to become market leaders in their respective sectors. Kimon was born in New York and moved to Krakow, Poland in 1993. Listen to his story here.
NBN Episodes hosted by Richard Lucas:
June 4, 2024
CEO Secrets
Richard interviews BBC Journalist Dougal Shaw about his book CEO Secrets based on the BBC Series CEO secrets in which he interviewed 100s of CEOs. W…
March 25, 2024
An Oral History Archive of World War One
Peter Liddle OBE FRHistS (born 1934) is a British historian and author specialising in the study of the First and Second World Wars. In 1968 Liddle s…
March 21, 2024
The Polish-British Business Landscape
In this episode Richard interviews not an entrepreneur but a business journalist with detailed knowledge of the Polish and British business landscape …
January 30, 2024
Innovating and Competing in the Crowded World of Food Delivery
Richard and Kimon speak with Faisal Kanji, co-founder of hungerhub, an innovative catering company. Based in Canada, hungerhub combines the quality of…
January 15, 2024
AI Chatbots and the Future of Customer Service
Richard and Kimon recently interviewed Gonçalo Consiglieri, the co-founder of Visor.ai, a company specializing in AI and automation solutions for cust…
December 18, 2023
Public Success, Private Grief
Richard and Kimon talk to Peter Cowley, angel investor and author of the book, Public Success, Private Grief. Peter started his career as a software e…
December 4, 2023
Innovative Education Entrepreneurship
In this episode, Kimon and Richard speak with Philipp Legner, founder of educational software Mathigon. After graduating from the University of Cambri…
November 6, 2023
Uncovering Aspects of History
Richard and Kimon speak with Oliver Webb-Carter, co-founder and editor of Aspects of History, a magazine and website that showcases great writing and …
October 23, 2023
Finding Great Founders
Richard and Kimon speak with James Green, one of the co-founders of DQ Ventures, a company that assists experienced professionals launch their own bus…
October 2, 2023
A Natural-Born Salesman
In this episode, Richard and Kimon interview Simon Stanisz, the co-founder of The NorthStar Consulting Group. Simon is a sales expert who has recently…
August 7, 2023
Trust in Leadership
Watch here On this week's episode, Richard and Kimon continue their discussion on business, focusing particularly on leadership and management. Star…
July 10, 2023
Developing Authentic Business Relationships
In this episode, Richard and Kimon interview each other about B2B sales, also known as enterprise sales. These days, many businesses are considering h…
June 26, 2023
Ego in Business
In this episode, Richard and Kimon interview each other about the role of ego in business. The common perception is that entrepreneurs, typically men,…
June 12, 2023
Scaling Up
Richard and Kimon speak with James Hyde, non-executive director of James and James Fulfilment, in addition to founding and formerly running the compan…
April 3, 2023
The Secrets of Efficient Organizations
In this episode, Kimon and Richard speak with Nick Sonnenberg, CEO and Founder of Leverage. He is also the author of the book, Come Up For Air: How Te…
March 20, 2023
Running a Cutting Edge Family Office
In this episode, Kimon and Richard speak with Sameer Narula, Managing Partner of August One, a private investment firm. Despite self-identifying as an…
March 6, 2023
From Banking to Business
In this episode, Kimon and Richard speak with Val Pilch, CEO of ForMeds. Val was born in Krakow, living there for his early childhood before moving to…
February 13, 2023
Getting to Net Zero
Kimon and Richard speak with Christian Arno, founder and CEO of Pawprint, about how companies can effectively achieve sustainability goals. As a youn…
January 30, 2023
Building an Interconnected Community
Kimon and Richard speak with Cormac Russell, Managing Director at Nurture Development. Cormac focuses on helping institutions, NGOs, governmental orga…
January 16, 2023
Building a Global AI Community
In this interview, Richard and Kimon speak with Rudradeb Mitra, CEO and founder of Omdena. He was born in India, moving to England as an adult to comp…
January 2, 2023
Creating a Company Culture that Lasts
In this interview, Richard and Kimon speak with David Regn, CEO of Stream Companies. Collectively, David oversees about 600 employees, generating an a…
December 19, 2022
Entrepreneurship through Acquisition
In this interview, Richard and Kimon speak with Jack Lancaster. Prior to becoming the CEO of medical equipment manufacturer, Evolution Surgical, Jack …
November 21, 2022
From Translator to Linguistics Entrepreneur
Richard Lucas and Kimon Fountoukidis speak with Krzysztof Zdanowski, language and technology entrepreneur. Krzysztof argues that entrepreneurship is a…
October 24, 2022
From Boutique Menswear to Boutique Retail Technology
Bryan Amaral began his career as an entrepreneur going door-to-door, selling custom-made suits. He learned how to work closely with clients as a thera…