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Nigel Grierson
Co-head of Technology Ventures
Doughty Hanson
Seminar (1): Jumpstart your business plan into a winning VC presentation.
Date: 5th December 2011
Time: 10:00-11:30am
Nigel co-founded the Doughty Hanson Technology Fund in 2000 and currently serves as co-Managing Director. His specific areas of expertise include financial venture investment, high technology marketing and organisation development.
Previously, Nigel was the Group Director for Intel Capital Europe, managing a team responsible for making strategic equity investments and developing new business opportunities throughout Europe. He and the team together originated and invested in over 35 technology start-up companies, many of which became substantial public companies. Nigel has also worked at AT&T in the Communications Product Division leading a team developing high performance silicon processors.
Nigel delivers a number of career development courses for the European Venture Capital Association. |
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ALAN GLEESON
General Manager
Palo Alto Software UK
Seminar (2): Become an expert in picking the right financing path for your start-up.
Date: Monday 5th December
Time: 2:30pm-4:00pm
Alan is General Manager of Palo Alto Software UK with responsibility for business development and marketing in Europe. Prior to that, Alan was a Business Development Manager at Barclays Plc. He joined Barclays Plc on their Graduate programme in 1998, from University College, Cork in Ireland and spent 5 years at Barclays in various divisions in both the business and retail banking sectors. He has also previously worked in a range of different short term roles around the world including engagements in Ireland, UK, USA, Australia and Canada.
Alan has an MBA from Oxford University, an MSc and B.Comm from University College, Cork, Ireland and a Post Grad Diploma in eCommerce from University of London. |
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TIM BERG - FCA
CFO
Essentially Group
Seminar (5): Discover the creative, yet effective ways to build, incentivise and motivate your early team…
Date: 7th December 2011
Time: 10:00-11:30am
Tim Berg is a Board / Partner level Finance Executive with over 25 years of experience across the professional and the commercial worlds. While his sector focus is in media, he has broad financial experience across a range of industries.
Tim’s particular skills are in the areas of stakeholder engagement, change management and implementation, mergers and acquisitions, and project management, both in the plc and the private company sectors. As CFO of AIM quoted Essentially Group he was part of the team delivering a valuable shareholder exit to Chime Communications, and he recently played a key role in the reorganisation (including shareholder exit and fundraising) of Peters Edition – a 200 year-old independent music publishing business. Tim left the profession in 2005, having spent the previous nine years working with his partners to build the presence of Baker Tilly within the media sector where he is well respected. |
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CAROLINE BOSHER
Account Manger
Edelman (Spook)
Seminar (6): Learn the secrets of winning social media campaigns and implement them in your start-up.
Date: 7th December 2011
Time: 2:30pm – 4pm
Caroline is a self-confessed Social Media addict who combines her business and customer service background with the world of social media. The rise of Social Commerce in the retail sector has seen her building online communities for high profile international brands across a variety of industries including BlackBerry, Chrysler, Johnnie Walker and Krispy Kreme. She works with business owners to develop a bespoke online strategy which meets their objectives and is integrated into their on and offline activities. Her clients benefit from ongoing consultancy, training and constant updates about the latest social media trends and digital campaign ideas. |
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JIM BOULTON
Partner
Story Worldwide
Seminar (7): The great conundrum: online vs offline marketing – get the balance right for your business.
Date: Thursday 8th December
Time: 10:00 – 11:30am
Jim is a Partner at Story Worldwide, a Course Director for The Chartered Institute of Marketing, where he runs the Digital Marketing Masterclass, and the curator of Internet Week’s Digital Archaeology exhibition. He consults on all aspects of brand communication for blue-chip clients including Agent Provocateur, Bang & Olufsen, DeBeers, Duchy Orginals, E*TRADE, Johnson & Johnson, Lexus, Magners, Medtronic, Mosaic Fashions and The Luxottica Group.
In 1996, after a six-year career as a management consultant, Jim acted on a niggling suspicion that the Internet was the most significant invention since the bicycle and embarked on a Masters Degree at the Hypermedia Research Centre. Led by the eminent social theorist Doctor Richard Barbrook and the cutting edge interactive design agency Antirom, the course combined rigorous theoretical analysis of technological convergence with hands-on practical research and was dubbed the British answer to Negroponte’s Media Lab by The Independent.
In 1998, with Chief Creative Officer Lars Hemming Jorgensen, Jim established Large, a highly successful digital consultancy identified by the Financial Times in 2001 as a company to watch. Over the course of the next six years Jim delivered benchmark sites and online campaigns for the world’s top brands including the groundbreaking Bang & Olufsen site, referred to as “the most beautiful website in the world” by the Financial Times, and over a five year period created a series of audacious sites for Agent Provocateur, deemed the “sexiest website in the world” by Vogue. In 2007, Large merged with Story Worldwide to create the world’s first post-advertising agency.
Jim also curates "Digital Archaeology", an event that celebrates the golden age of the website and raises the profile of digital archiving. The show first featured as part of Internet Week Europe 2010 and was very positively received by the public, the industry, academia and the press. As a result, the event gained sponsorship from Google and ran as a central part of Internet Week New York 2011, with a keynote presentation by The Library of Congress. |
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PAUL ALEXANDROU
Executive Creative Director
Story Worldwide
Seminar (7): The great conundrum: online vs offline marketing – get the balance right for your business.
Date: Thursday 8th December
Time: 10:00 – 11:30am
Paul is an awarded creative director whose background bridges the worlds of advertising, technology, arts and entertainment. Over the past 15 years his work has included major integrated campaigns, film and innovation assignments for clients such as Coca-Cola, Lexus, Sony Ericsson, the BBC, Fashion Week, Manchester United and the Australian Film Commission amongst others.
Prior to joining Story he's held a variety of senior creative posts in both London and abroad, most recently serving as Executive Creative Director at IMG Media – one of the world’s most diversified media and entertainment companies – working across its acclaimed film, broadcast and digital subsidiaries including IMG Digital, Tiger Aspect and Darlow Smithson.
In addition to working with established brands, Paul has helped incubate and launch a number of technology startups and other IP that’s been featured in mainstream media, from Oprah, to Wired and The Wall Street Journal. His work has been recognised across a range of disciplines, from major international advertising award shows such as Cannes, to Arts Council awards and film festivals including the prestigious Clermont-Ferrand. |
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Alison Berryman
Partner
Waterfront Solicitors LLP
Seminar (4): Understand and adopt the great attributes of winning tech entrepreneurs
Date: Tuesday 6th December
Time: 2:30 – 4:00pm
Alison is a partner at Waterfront Solicitors LLP, a 5 partner London law firm specialising in technology and intellectual property law.
The majority of Waterfront’s clients are SME tech companies. These businesses really need specialist lawyers who understand their industry, but they don’t necessarily want to pay City law firm rates! This is where Waterfront can help, providing cost effective and commercially focused legal advice.
Prior to becoming Waterfront’s first employee in 2004, Alison worked in the UK legal team of a NASDAQ listed silicon valley tech company. Since joining Waterfront, Alison has advised a very broad range of technology companies on all aspects of intellectual property law and commercial contracts. She has a particular specialism in assisting SMEs who are negotiating contracts with much larger negotiations, although she has also acted for PLCs and public sector bodies.
Alison has taken great pleasure from seeing numerous clients grow from struggling start-up to become enormously successful businesses. |
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Colin White
Thought Leader
Micro-payment and Online billing solutions.
Seminar (9): Micro Payments & the opportunities for SME’s
Date: Thursday 8th December
Time: 1:30 – 3:00pm
Colin is a leading expert in mobile, fixed line and Web payments, helping businesses realise their potential through a variety of micro-payment & on-line billing solutions.
Former CEO & CFO at Oxygen8 Communication, a global mobile & voice solutions provider, Colin has spent the last two years working across Europe and Africa with Netsize, part of the Gemalto Group. Gemalto is at the heart of the revolution currently underway in NFC, providing Barclaycard & Oyster with contactless payment solutions and Netsize is their Mobile Payment provider offering a variety of m-payment solutions including direct billing.
With a background in Finance and MBA from Essex, Colin has developed a proven track record of driving the bottom line within fast pace technology businesses. |
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Tom Evennett
Director, Entrepreneurial Business Team
Deloitte LLP
Seminar (3) : Recognising the tax considerations on starting up a business
Date: Tuesday 6th December
Time: 10:00 – 11:30am
Tom is a director in the Entrepreneurial Business team and has been working with entrepreneurs and their businesses for over 10 years.
Tom’s clients range from fast growing early stage businesses to medium sized enterprises and span a number of sectors although focussed upon the media and technology industries. He has advised on a huge number of set-ups, acquisitions, demergers, ongoing incentive plans and disposals of businesses in these sectors.
Tom is a Chartered Tax Adviser and recently completed an Executive MBA at CASS Business School |
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Robert Daverschot
Marketing & Communications Manager
Shakespeak
Seminar (6) : Innovation and the software of organisations
Date: Wednesday 7th December
Time: 11:30 – 12:30pm
Robert has led the Dutch software startup Shakespeak since its launch last December. Prior to that, he managed the first citizenM hotel at Amsterdam Airport, a new affordable luxury hotel chain. Robert started his career at Seats2meet.com, a physical workspace for startups and entrepreneurs. He co-developed MINDZ.com, an online platform where entrepreneurs gather to co-create. In his free time, Robert contributes towards gay emancipation within Dutch Christian society. Throughout his work, ‘people and innovation’ are his key motivators to bring forward social and economic change.
Robert’s vivid thoughts on openness and transparency - ingredients for personal- and economic growth - are implemented in Shakespeak’s daily operation. A strongly personalized social media strategy help him and his Team to bring across this philosophy and to market their product. “In the end, it’s all about humans, their fears and delights; technology is just an enabler to make true contact happen”. Robert considers trust as oil for innovation. According to him, today’s challenge lies in building trust and in expressing yourself; the real software of organisations that is still easily overlooked… |
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Mai Davies
New Seminar: Perfect Your Presentation Skills
This seminar will run all week in the Industry Advisors Room
Mai Davies is a broadcaster and journalist, currently working at the BBC, and formerly a daytime anchor at Sky News and political presenter at ITV.
As well as being a journalist, Mai is an international media/presentation trainer working with companies like the Thomson Foundation and Al Jazeera. She also specialises in crisis media training and message development for major companies, and as a pitch consultant for companies wishing to win new business or secure investment.
She is much in demand as a corporate event and conference host, as well as hosting classical music concerts. |
