A for-profit social enterprise which objectives to cultivate a model new wave of British entrepreneurs has recruited HRH Princess Beatrice amongst a model new crop of board members.
Sky Information understands that Opus, a paid-for membership neighborhood, will unveil the 34 year-old royal as a director in a public announcement on Friday.
Princess Beatrice beforehand acted as a patron of Opus nonetheless is understood to have joined its board this month.
Its six-figure seed funding spherical, which is able to even be part of Friday’s announcement, is alleged to have been intently oversubscribed and accommodates well-known names from the political and enterprise arenas.
Opus describes its group as an “alternative group” and says it contains “a extremely vetted community of rising leaders from a various set of sectors and roles, both managing a price range, a group or each”.
Its new funding will current the means to develop member suppliers and broaden its group of members, who it describes as “rising leaders”.
Princess Beatrice acknowledged she was “excited” to deepen her work with the company, together with: “Having been part of Opus since its inception, it’s clear that there’s an extremely impactful alternative to generate scale with this platform.”
The elder daughter of Prince Andrew has moreover labored at Afiniti, an American know-how agency whose founder grew to develop into embroiled in a sexual misconduct scandal in 2021.
David Cameron, the earlier prime minister, was an adviser to Afiniti nonetheless resigned in the middle of the row, which erupted whereas Princess Beatrice was on maternity go away.
Adam Marshall, the earlier British Chambers of Commerce director-general, and Miguel McKelvey, one amongst WeWork’s co-founders, are moreover changing into a member of the Opus board.
Kerry Fennell, Opus’s managing director, acknowledged: “Management will be lonely, however at Opus we imagine that careers and management must be a group sport.”
