Global SME Zone - Boardroom Live #3 | Building the SME Dream Team: Who Do You Need to Scale and Succeed?
Private, Invitation Only Boardroom | Trusted, Sovereign Community Environment | 75 minutes | Hosted on Verchool Platforms
Scaling an SME is rarely just about having the right strategy. As a business grows, the people around the founder increasingly determine how effectively the organisation can execute, adapt, and scale.
Knowing when to build a leadership team, which roles to hire first, what to keep close to the founder, and where external expertise can accelerate growth can make the difference between a business that scales and one that becomes increasingly difficult to manage.
A private peer level boardroom for SME founders, investors, advisors, and business leaders exploring how to build the right team, leadership structure, and support network for the next stage of growth.
Host
Mobin Rafiq
Founder, Global SME Zone
Chairman, Westone Capital Group
Founder and Chairman, The Global & Commonwealth SME Club
📍 London
Co Host and Moderator
Reg Athwal
Founder and CEO, Verchool Platforms
Executive Chairman, TAO Legacy Holdings
📍 United Arab Emirates
Discussion Focus
→ Which roles become critical as an SME moves into its next stage of growth
→ When founders should stop doing everything themselves and start building leadership capacity
→ How to identify the right people for the right stage of the business
→ The balance between hiring internally and using external advisors, partners, and specialists
→ Building a leadership team that can execute without creating unnecessary complexity
→ What founders often get wrong when building their senior team
→ Creating the culture, accountability, and incentives needed to retain high performers
Who Will Be in the Room
→ SME founders and business owners
→ Investors and family offices supporting SME growth
→ CEOs and senior executives leading scaling businesses
→ HR, talent, and leadership professionals
→ Advisors supporting business growth and organisational development
→ Operators and entrepreneurs who have built and scaled management teams
Participation is curated to ensure a thoughtful, peer level discussion.
Boardroom Protocol
This Boardroom Live session is a confidential, peer level discussion.
There are no slides and no presentations. The session is designed entirely around direct dialogue among decision makers.
This session is not intended for pitching, fundraising, deal promotion, or product showcasing.
Participant names and attendee lists are not shared in advance.
About the Global SME Zone
The Global SME Zone brings together founders, business owners, investors, advisors, and operators focused on the growth and long term success of small and medium sized enterprises.
The zone creates a peer level environment to exchange practical experience around scaling businesses, accessing capital, international expansion, leadership, and sustainable growth.
Each Boardroom Live session focuses on real world challenges and opportunities facing SMEs across industries and markets.
About Verchool
Founded in Dubai and scaling out of Silicon Valley, Verchool Platforms is a pioneering technology company building high capital flow Relationship and Protection Capital Platforms as private business communities, powered by proprietary Agentic AI technologies.
Verchool accelerates how founders, investors, governments and enterprises globally connect, communicate, collaborate and conduct commerce within private and secure community zones.
Through curated Zones and Boardroom Live sessions, Verchool facilitates confidential, peer level dialogue focused on business outcomes and building trusted long term relationships.
Confidentiality Notice
This is a private, approval only session.
Registration does not guarantee access.
Approved participants will receive personalised login details via corporate@verchool.com.
Discussions take place within a trusted and sovereign environment designed to support confidential peer level engagement.