Ben Towers

• One of the UK’s most successful young entrepreneurs.
• Started his own digital media agency aged 11.
• 16 years old and employees 15 full time members of staff and has over 500 influential clients.
• Remarkably confident, experienced speaker who is well grounded and keen to help other young people follow his lead.

Ben Towers is a multi-award winning serial young entrepreneur with a very unique and engaging story about how he started his journey to becoming a multi-award winning 16 year old serial young entrepreneur. At the young age of 11 he decided that he wanted to break the old of most others his age (who were thinking about high school) and start his business.

After building a basic website for a family friend Ben quickly gained confidence to work with external businesses and signed up as a freelancer (aged 11) and by 12 he already had 25 customers all around the world.

As Ben’s ability began to grew so did his customer base and quickly the work became too much for the young boy to handle and so he started to look for other options. This lead to Ben taking on a freelancer completing work he forwarded on. This continued and when he was 14 Ben took on his first full time employee in his digital agency, Towers Design providing cutting edge internet content and marketing solutions.

Ben is an ambassador for ‘The Federation Of Small Businesses’, lobbying for young people with some of the most influential politicians in the UK, and YENA (Young Entrepreneur Networking Association). Due to his constant work in government Ben is widely recognised by MP’s all around the UK and is a constant feature in the media throughout the UK.

Speaking To Inspire Other Young People

Ben is a remarkable young man who is ideally positioned through his own expertise to act as a role model for other young people to learn from and to follow. He is a confident speaker, unusual for someone so young.

Ben is available for speaking engagements and can address a large number of topics, primarily his own story about battling the challenges of building a business at a young age including finance, acceptance as a legitimate business man, access to grants and balancing work life with school (i.e. GCSEs). Other topics covered by Ben include staff motivation, sales, website design, hosting, SEO and branding.

In 2014 Ben started another business, ‘Social Marley’ – a social media dashboard for UK businesses. With this new business Ben has successfully raised £100,000 in funding for the developments of this business which launches later in 2015. As a young man who has achieved a lot Ben is keen to share his story to help inspire other young people. He has already amassed an impressive portfolio of clients for presentations most notably: The Business Show, The Student Entrepreneur Conference, NACUE (National Association of Colleges and University Entrepreneurs), Young Start-up Talent, Inspire Ur Biz, TEDx, Prysm Group and The Federation of Small Businesses.

He has spoken at a variety of events from small functions to large corporate conferences with thousands of delegates. At each event, Ben receives a very warm welcome; many people approach him afterwards to further discussions and he finds that a large percentage of his attendees can relate to his experience in some way or another.

In summery, Ben is a unique young speaker who has an inspirational relatable story which can be shared with audiences both big and small. Ben is still young and subsequently a great feature for any business programme.

Keynote Topics

– My Story (Bens Business Journey)

– Marketing to the next generation

– The future of technolofy

– How to be disruptive in the marketplace