Andy Lopata is an acclaimed professional relationships strategist, with global clients including Paypal, GlaxoSmithKline and Brother. He has written five books on networking and professional relationships and often been quoted in the media, including Forbes, Inc, Psychology Today, The Sunday Times and The Financial Times. In fact, the FT called Andy ‘one of Europe’s leading business networking strategists’ and both Forbes.com and The Independent called him ‘a true master of networking’. Andy holds the PSAE award – that’s the UK’s top award designed to recognise excellence in professional speaking. He is President of the Fellow’s Community of the Professional Speaking Association (PSA) UK and Ireland and a member of the Global Speakers Federation (GSF). He’s also a Fellow of the Learning and Performance Institute (LPI), and a Master of the Institute of Sales Management. He started working in networking in 1999, and spent eight years as Managing Director of a UK networking organisation that had over 2,000 member companies.