Entrepreneurship and celebrity met in Monte Carlo yesterday as EasyGroup’s Stelios Haji-Ioannou and renowned football referee Pierluigi Collina were among the opening-day speakers at the second annual Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur Summit. The Summit, which culminates in the naming of the 2006 World Entrepreneur on Saturday 10 June, brings together hundreds of entrepreneurs from around the world to meet, strategise and plan their next move to continued success.

“If everything is under control things aren’t moving fast enough,â€