Exclusive event:

Turning Strategic Ambition into Business Results

How to align the key functions of your organisation 
to improve execution, performance and growth

Join Verostone & partners at Fortnum & Mason, London to 
explore how to build a high-performing organisation - RSVP

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Join Verostone, Prophix and our event partners at Fortnum & Mason for an exclusive evening of wine tasting, networking and discussion - exploring what it takes to build a truly high-performing organisation.

Join us at this exclusive event to see how the best-performing organisations align strategy, finance, people, process and technology to build better performing businesses.

Join Verostone, our event partners and fellow senior business and finance leaders for a relaxed evening of thought-provoking discussion, networking and premium wine tasting at one of London’s most iconic venues.

We’ll explore how organisations can close the gap between business strategy and execution – connecting leadership, finance, people, process and technology to create the conditions for sustained business performance improvement.

We’ll also consider where data, automation, AI and technology can genuinely help, and how they can support improved processes, accountability and smarter ways of working.

Our exclusive evening has been designed around collaborative conversation: a facilitated panel discussion and audience Q&A, interspersed with a curated wine tasting experience and plenty of time to network with fellow guests.

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Business performance can become diluted between leadership intent and day-to-day delivery: priorities become disconnected, processes add complexity, teams work towards different objectives and decision-makers lack the information they need to act quickly and confidently.
 
At our exclusive wine-tasting event at Fortnum & Mason, we’ll explore how organisations can close that gap - connecting strategy, finance, operations, people, process and technology to create the conditions for sustained business performance improvement.

What differentiates a high-performing organisation?

Setting an ambitious business strategy is one thing. Creating an 
organisation capable of consistently executing it is a different matter.

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RSVP - Hear from business and finance performance experts how innovations in financial strategy, process and technology are delivering a step-change in business performance

Verostone: Your strategic financial performance partner

The landscape of business performance is moving faster than ever. Businesses need to financially plan, manage and operate more effectively, faster and at lower cost. There’s never been a more pressing and urgent need to adapt quickly and effectively to change. That’s where Verostone can help.

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About the venue

Fortnum & Mason, Piccadilly, London.

Few venues are as unmistakably London as Fortnum & Mason's Piccadilly flagship building. Established at 181 Piccadilly in 1707, Fortnum's has spent more than three centuries building a reputation as a destination for visitors from around the world.

The Food & Drink Studio and Library

Located on the third floor, the Food & Drink Studio and Library provides a beautifully designed contemporary setting dedicated to exceptional food, drink and conversation.

For our event, the adjoining spaces will create an exclusive setting for wine tasting, discussion and networking - combining the atmosphere and heritage of Fortnum's with an intimate environment ideally suited to conversation and networking.

We pride ourselves in combining leading edge financial performance management strategies with a depth of industry expertise and hands-on experience, supported by best-in-class technologies.

From initial consultation through to strategy, solution design and delivery, our expert consultants create solutions tailored to the specifics of your business, delivering the insights that you need to operate effectively.

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Drive high performance sales and marketing for your business that delivers the growth that you need!

Join us at Mercedes World to find out how - RSVP

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Marketing, the secret
ingredient for successful growth

Join us at Gordon Ramsay’s Lucky Cat, Mayfair, London to learn why marketing is the key ingredient for successful growth - RSVP

The Time:
Tuesday 3rd November 2026 - 18.30 - 21.30

The Place:
Fortnum & Mason, 181 Piccadilly, London W1A 1ER 

The Time  
Wednesday, 5th June 2024, 
12:30 to 15:30

What you will gain

Turning strategy into execution: Explore practical ways to translate strategic objectives into clearer priorities, decisions and actions across the organisation.

Stronger organisational alignment: Discover how leadership, finance and operations can work around shared objectives rather than competing priorities and disconnected processes.

Better, faster decision-making: Understand how improved information, accountability and visibility can help leaders make more confident decisions at greater speed.

Greater agility and efficiency: Learn how to remove unnecessary complexity and build an organisation that can respond to change without sacrificing control.

Technology with purpose: Explore where data, automation and AI can genuinely improve business outcomes - without allowing technology itself to become the strategy.

An evening of high-value discussion, curated wine tasting and genuine connection 

Join us at Fortnum & Mason for an exclusive evening exploring how to better align leadership, finance, people, process & technology around real business performance - RSVP 

Dave Francis, Founder & Director

Verostone - Applied Financial Intelligence

Dave has spent the past 20 years partnering with organisations across a wide range of industries to enhance their financial processes through automation, implementation of supporting solutions, and seamless data integration.

Dave's extensive accounting experience drives Verostone’s focus on customer-oriented solutions that deliver real value. He's dedicated to helping businesses of all kinds achieve better business performance, by harnessing the latest innovations in technology and process.

Your Event Host

TBC

Alive Allegrini leads the EMEA North Team at Planful, helping organisations modernise their Office of Finance through technology and transformation. 

With over 25 years of experience in financial performance management, she has advised global enterprises on implementing solutions as Oracle Hyprion, SAP, Tagetik, Unit4 FP&A, and Anaplan.

A Bocconi University graduate in Business Administration and Accounting, Alice brings deep expertise in finance transformation and a passion for empowering FP&A teams to drive strategic value and agility through innovation.

Exclusive event:

Turning Strategic Ambition into Business Results: 

How to align the key functions of your organisation to improve execution, performance and growth

Join Verostone & partners at Fortnum & Mason, London to explore how to build a high-performing organisation - RSVP

Jite Udje, EPM Solutions Architect

Verostone

Jite  has over 15 years of experience in finance and performance management. He has worked across a range of finance roles  from systems accountant to Finance Systems Analyst before specialising in enterprise performance management systems.

 At Verostone, Jite helps clients modernise their financial planning and analytics using platforms like Planful and Axiom EPM.

James Bradshaw-Weaver, FCIM, Marketing Director/ Chief Marketing Officer'

Equals Five

A senior marketing director with extensive experience in business-to-business sales and marketing, specifically in the design and build and workplace sectors and technology markets, James is a commercially driven marketing strategist, with a focus on business growth.

James has worked with some of the world’s largest B2B and technology brands, in both client and agency environments, including Dimension Data, Acopia, TuringSMI, BMC Software, Cisco, Serena Software, Actuate, SAP, nDreams, Verostone, and Laduma over a career spanning 25+ years.

A highly accomplished strategist with extensive tactical experience in constructing integrated sales and marketing strategies and go-to-market programmes, that have delivered significant commercial value.

RSVP – Join Verostone, our partners & senior business leaders at Fortnum & Mason to discuss the challenges facing business & finance leaders in building better performance

What separates organisations that execute their strategy well from those that struggle?

Our facilitated discussion will bring together Verostone, senior business leaders and invited contributors to explore the practical challenges of improving organisational performance.

We'll explore both the challenges and the opportunities presented by the changing business landscape, including the strategic context of business performance, innovations in process and the evolution of the tools and technologies that support it, including the impact of AI on business and financial operations.

You'll have the opportunity to put your most pressing questions to our panel during an interactive, expert-led discussion, and share your own experience with peers facing similar challenges.

Some of the topics we'll explore:

• From ambition to execution - Where does performance get lost between leadership intent and day-to-day delivery?
  
  Creating organisational alignment - How can finance, operations and leadership work around the same priorities?
  
  The changing role of finance - What contribution should finance make to wider organisational performance?
  
  Process before technology - When is changing the process or operating model more important than implementing another system?
  
  Using AI intelligently - How can leaders exploit data and AI without confusing new tools with genuine transformation?
  
  Continuous optimisation - What happens after the transformation programme ends, and how do organisations sustain improvement?

TBC

Jite is a CIMA professional with over 15 years’ experience in management accounting and FP&A functions. With a history of delivering complex financial transformation projects to a diverse number of sectors and company sizes, Jite combines a strong finance background with deep understanding of the technologies and processes that are transforming financial planning and analysis. He has a highly successful track record of implementing of 20+ EPM projects spanning over 10 years.

Jite is passionate about using FP&A software and technology to build partnerships that help customers adopt a vision of continuous planning in order to elevate each organisation's financial IQ.

TBC

Gary is the CEO of FSN and leader of the FSN Modern Finance Forum on LinkedIn, with a membership of more than 60,000 senior finance professionals. He’s a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Chartered IT Professional and the author of four books on financial software and information systems. 

Gary addresses thousands of finance professionals annually about the challenges affecting the CFO’s role. With a wealth of experience as a senior consulting partner with Deloitte, his field of expertise is information strategy, performance management and financial reporting systems working at board level with global 2,000 companies, large public sector organisations and central government as well as spells in the mid-market.