Denry Okpor – Speaker and podcast guest

About Denry as a speaker

Denry Okpor is a UK-based serial entrepreneur who has founded 12 UK companies since 2013. He is the author of Launch Your Venue, an actor and a property investor.

He built and ran Sips Nail Spa & Bar venues in Stratford, Mayfair and Croydon, often doing the fit-out himself, and has run several businesses at the same time. On stage and on podcasts he shares what actually happens when you open a business: the real order of decisions, the costs, the people and the cash. Expect straight answers, real stories and steps your audience can use the next day.

Talk and interview topics

1. Opening a salon, café or bar in the UK
   The real order of decisions from idea to opening night: picking premises, licences and registrations, budgets and the 26-week plan from Launch Your Venue.
2. Building a venue on a budget: doing the fit-out yourself
   What Denry learned designing and building his own venues: where to save, where never to cut corners, and how to manage trades and timelines.
3. Running several businesses at once
   The habits and systems that let one founder run multiple companies: separate finances, one key number per business, and documenting everything.
4. Hiring and keeping a small team
   Finding the right first hires, giving managers real authority, and building a team that keeps a venue running when the founder isn't there.
5. Cash flow in the first year
   Why cash, not the idea, decides whether a new business survives, and the simple weekly checks that spot trouble early.
6. From founder to author
   Turning hands-on business experience into a practical book, and what writing Launch Your Venue taught him about his own businesses.

Formats

• Podcast interviewsAudio or video, remote or in studio
• PanelsFounder, hospitality, beauty and small-business panels
• WorkshopsHands-on sessions for aspiring venue owners
• KeynotesTalks for business events, colleges and networks
• WhereOnline, or in person across the UK