Ketan Makwana

Ketan has been involved in the Entrepreneurial and Innovation space for nearly 2 decades; after an extensive career in IT, Electronics and Healthcare; Ketan swapped employment for enterprise and since 2008 has started, scaled and sold multiple ventures within the Professional Development, Innovation Management and Recruitment sectors.

Since 2011 to the present day, Ketan has successfully delivered economic policy and enterprise consultation through both an advisory capacity and project delivery to many Governments and Ministries across the globe:

UK Government: working on the Startup Loans Scheme that has administered over £1bn into UK startups

Chilean Government: working with Corfo (Economic Development Agency) to develop an innovation ventures programme to attract international talent and ventures to Chile

Thai Government: working with NSTDA (National Science & Technology Development Agency) to develop a SME Innovation Programme to export 5000 SMEs into International markets

European Union: working with European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) and their Energy Innovation Community (InnoEnergy) to develop a Professional Development programme to immerse graduates from Master Programmes into the European Energy Sector

Singapore Govt: working with SportsSG and Football Association Singapore on the Country’s blueprint for Sports Innovation and Operations of the Lion City Cup Tournament (U16s Football)

One of Ketan’s former portfolio ventures a Business and Talent Innovation Agency (Enterprise Lab) at its peak delivered programming into 26 countries serving 150,000 people every year.

In 2021, Ketan turned his attention to the Creative Industries which suffered tremendously at the hands of the COVID Pandemic; through the authoring of a whitepaper: 2030-CI, Ketan launched Seventy7 Ventures a company that is on the mission to accelerate the digital and technology capabilities of the Creative Industries.

Today, the Seventy7 Group is a dynamic group of companies spanning Entertainment, Media, Leisure and Sports Industries – all with the same mission to accelerate digital and technology capabilities through fractional executive deployment.