Entrepreneur Country presents
'A New Common Sense Emerges'
Wednesday 27th February 2013
9:00 - 6:00
Entrepreneur Country has a stellar line up for this year's February forum. With serial entrepreneurs, hyper-growth specialists and business leaders gracing the historic Royal Institution of Great Britain in London.
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Dr Mike Lynch, OBE, FREng is the founder of Autonomy. Dr Lynch has long been regarded as a visionary figure within the technology world, described by the Financial Times as “the doyen of European software” and by the Sunday Times as “Britain’s Bill Gates”. He advises the Prime Minister on matters of science policy through the Council on Science and Technology. Dr Lynch founded Autonomy in 1996, the UK’s largest and fastest-growing software company, with a market capitalisation of $11bn, and was its CEO for fifteen years. |
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Dr Sally Ernst Dr Sally Ernst has developed strong international relationships and gained significant internationalization, corporate venturing, corporate governance, offshoring and start up experience with tech and IT security companies over the past 15 years spanning Australia, China, the Philippines, and the UK and US. Currently, Sally is the co-founder and joint CEO of CloudStaff, (www.CloudStaff.com), a high growth Philippines BPO servicing the UK and Australian markets. She is also an investor in Event Zero (www.eventzero.com) a high tech, real time, complex event processing company having realized successful exits with the inventor from previous ventures. |
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Jason began life as an entrepreneur early, managing discos for local schools and selling sports brand clothing were just two of the businesses Jason ran in his teenage years. Whilst studying Computer Science at Liverpool University Jason took his passion of music and founded a business selling DJ and music production equipment online. Over the course of his degree he and his close friend and business partner Robert Williams built Dolphin Music out of their house using their student loans and credit cards to fund it. By the time it came to leave University, Dolphin's revenue was over £1m. |
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Founder and CEO of iTrigga, a technology driven business launched in 2011, which specializes in writing for the web, on any topic, in any language. Using a “cloud” of over 300 specialist writers and its proprietary Quill platform, iTrigga can produce bespoke, on-brand content, at scale, faster and at a lower cost than is possible either in-house or via legacy content agencies. iTrigga’s content solution has helped companies including American Express, Ikea, Littlewoods, WPP, Aegis and Ominicom increase digital revenues and reputation. |
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Mark Hoffman became CEO of Oxygen Finance Group in January 2013, having previously been Chairman of Oxygen Finance Americas. Mark is the former Sybase co-founder and Chief Executive Officer for 11 years and took the company public in 1991 and Commerce One founder and CEO for 7 years taking the company public in 1999. |
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Gabriel Ortizis the CEO of ClickSlide. ClickSlide’s fresh approach is to automate the process of adding GUI (Graphic User Interface) components to the growing number of APIs or Datasets being made available to developers today. |
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Sir William Sargent is the Founder and CEO of Framestore which creates digital images (visual effects and animation) for Hollywood studios, UK and US broadcasters and international advertising agencies. Framestore has won the major creative awards internationally - Academy Award (Oscar), British Academy (Bafta), US Television Academy (Primetime Emmy), Royal Television Society and many more. The company employs over 600 staff (artists, computer scientists, producers and mathematicians) in offices in London, New York and Los Angeles. |
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Stephen Linnecar is founder of Creative Kingdom Connex – a fledgling business which helps manufacturers find distribution and retail partners for their products. Despite being little more than a year old, the company has already helped Intermedasia Ltd to find a worldwide partner for part of their patented Magic Concepts range and have also helped the same client find two potential buyers for their Rubik’s Cube Mens Gifting range. |
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