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04 June 2010

Leading wealth manager and regional business hub team up to bring Sussex business leaders together London 4 June 2010: Leading UK private bank and wealth manager Kleinwort Benson, in partnership with MDHUB, the premier business club for Managing Directors in Sussex, yesterday launched its highly successful Entrepreneurs Forum in Brighton. Having run a networking and advisory forum for entrepreneurs in London’s Square Mile since 2001, the wealth manager is now bringing together entrepreneurs from across Sussex to discuss issues close to their hearts, including the development of their business, preparing for exit and investing in new enterprises. Working with MDHUB, an established networking and resource hub for business owners in the region, guests at the event heard from renowned speaker Osman Kent - the serial technology and media entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of 3Dlabs - who discussed growth strategies for 2010 and beyond. Jeremy Beckwith, Kleinwort Benson's Chief Investment Officer also shared his outlook for the UK economy, and his views on the likely impacts we can expect to see on markets and on business. Kleinwort Benson is well versed in advising entrepreneurs on their wealth planning requirements, particularly around business exits and investments, with entrepreneurs accounting for a significant percentage of the Bank’s client base. Having run these specialist forums from its London Head Office for nearly a decade, Kleinwort Benson has now decided to take the show ‘on the road’ to regionally based entrepreneurs, in line with its regional expansion programme. This has seen the Bank open no less than 6 offices across the UK over the last 3 years, allowing its bankers to be much closer to their clients. Kleinwort Benson is excited to be working with MDHUB on this event; the organisation’s dedication to spreading best practice through peer-to-peer contact between like-minded MDs is exactly in line with the idea behind the original Kleinwort Benson Entrepreneurs Forum. Currently operating in Brighton & Hove and Mid-Sussex with two divisions, the 100 and the 250, MDHUB is dedicated to the pursuit of best business practice, each catering for MDs with a different length of experience. Reflective of both Kleinwort Benson and MDHUB’s shared ethos, these forums aim to provide a challenging but open, honest and trusted environment for pursuing fresh ideas, resolving demanding issues and debating the future of business. Colin Rowe, Head of Regional Wealth Management at Kleinwort Benson says, “We’re particularly interested in developing activity in Sussex given the high volume of entrepreneurial activity we have observed, across a diverse range of industries and business areas. The business owners and leaders we are meeting and speaking with are looking for specialist advice to meet their very specific wealth management needs. “Brighton, for example, is very much seen as a hub of media entrepreneurialism and that’s reflected in the background of some of our attendees, as well as the speaker himself. However, we talked to a variety of individuals, developing and leading businesses across a number of sectors from Real Estate to Manufacturing, Publishing to Clean Technology and Energy Solutions. Through events like these we’re thrilled to have the opportunity to listen to client’s different experiences and needs and to be able to talk to them about the ways in which we can advise them and help them to fulfil their goals.” Over 50 business leaders and entrepreneurs from across Sussex attended the event at the Royal Pavilion yesterday evening. - ENDS -

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