The Germany-UK leg of My Most Trusted,
a national and global super-community of
90,443
trusted connections in our Trusted Universe, November 2026
Germany · United Kingdom
Hanse. An old German word for a company of merchants. The merchants of the Hanseatic League kept their own trading house in London, the Steelyard, for more than three centuries.
The Germany-UK Business Bridge is for people doing business between Germany and Britain, and for the many who live in one country with their clients, their colleagues or their family in the other.
London and Berlin are one hour and under two hours' flight apart. No deal ever failed on that. It fails because a good family firm in Bielefeld and a good firm in Birmingham never hear about each other, since the people who could introduce them have never been in the same room.
It is also where careers move. Members in Germany and the UK sometimes meet their next employer, find their next job or make their next hire through the Bridge, because the best roles are often filled by someone a trusted person recommends.
Knowing Germany is not the same as knowing who in Germany will answer an email that opens with a first name. Each end of this Bridge has its own manners and its own pace, so each end has its own person, who lives there.
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Leoni Parkinson holds the German end of the Bridge, from Berlin. She has spent ten years in marketing, in performance marketing and growth strategy, and she is Marketing Director at Byte Brothers Berlin, where she builds go-to-market strategies for clients, while also leading marketing and go-to-market for LevelUp, which helps businesses grow through ethical offshore hiring. Before that she led the marketing team at mobileJobs in Berlin and ran her own consultancy, The 20, built on the 80/20 principle. She studied psychology at the University of Manchester, trained as a breathwork and somatic coach, and wrote the pages on the customer relationship in François Maingret's book on ecommerce channel strategy, Online Channel Fit.
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The founding UK host seat is open. One person in the UK will hold this end. Somebody people already trust, who wants to choose the first hundred members on their side personally.
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Through people who already know Germany. The Germany-UK Business Bridge, part of My Most Trusted, is hosted in Berlin by Leoni Parkinson, who introduces members to German partners, advisers and clients through people they trust, so nobody has to rely on cold outreach. Read more
Leoni Parkinson hosts the German side of the Germany-UK Business Bridge from Berlin. She is Marketing Director at Byte Brothers Berlin and leads go-to-market for LevelUp. The UK host seat is open, for someone British business already trusts. Members also reach My Most Trusted's wider super-community.
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For more than three hundred years the merchants of the Hanseatic League kept a walled trading house of their own on the Thames in London, the Steelyard, the Stalhof in German, until Elizabeth I closed it in 1598. Cannon Street station stands on the site now. It was the oldest business bridge between Germany and England, and it worked for the reason this one does: trade between the two countries has always travelled furthest through people who already know each other.