Azeem Azhar is Head of Innovation at Reuters having had a twelve year career in the Internet and digital media. He brings an eclectic range of experiences to Reuters - as an entrepreneur, consultant and journalist.
Most recently, he worked at The Next Practice, an innovation consultancy run by CK Prahalad. He spent seven years working with Internet and technology start-ups where he helped set-up the BBC 's online operations, founded an incubator & several dotcoms and ran marketing at an AI/natural language software firm. He began his career as a technology writer, first at The Guardian and then The Economist. While at The Economist, he launched Economist.com. He has a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University
Gene T. Barton Jr. is a principal in the corporate and securities group in the Boston office of Fish & Richardson PC. Mr. Barton focuses his practice representing private companies venture capital, and private equity firms as well as mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining Fish & Richardson, Mr. Barton was a partner at Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP.
Some of Mr. Barton's notable projects have included the sale of Published Image, Inc. to Standard and Poors, Inc.; the sale of Cross Industry Communications to Protocol Holdings; the sale of The Credit Network to Kroll; and the sale of Beacon Fiduciary Advisors to the Bank of New York.
He has also been involved with many venture capital financings including the financing of Sentient (formerly known as ebizjets) by Credit Suisse First Boston¹s Private Equity Group, the financing of E5 systems by Bain Capital, and the financing of HomePortfolio in its ³angel² and four rounds of venture capital financing.
Mr. Barton is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and is an active member of the National Association of Corporate Directors. He received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Boston University School of Law in 1982 and his B.A., cum laude, from Boston University in 1979.
Rudy Burger is a leading expert in digital technologies and international business development. Over the past twenty-five years, he has founded five companies in the US, run a European public company, and served as a senior executive for two global 500 companies. He is an effective, dynamic leader with a proven track record in strategic planning, change management, and business development. In addition to being the Chairman and CEO of US Development Partners, Dr. Burger serves on the boards of several US and overseas companies including Quester Capital Management and Motorola's Research Visionary Board. He is a frequent keynote presenter, and is the author of numerous books and articles on the business of technology.
Neil Foster joined Field Fisher Waterhouse from Morrison & Foerster, a US law firm, where he was a partner and founding member of the UK Corporate Practice in London. He joined the firm as a corporate partner in 2006.
Neil’s practice covers mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, private equity and corporate finance. His principal sector specialisations are technology, media, communications, healthcare and life sciences. As well as advising UK companies, banks, venture funds and intermediaries, Neil represents many large US and Asian corporations and institutions on their UK and European deals.
Recent deals include transactions for Liberty Global, Vernalis, Echostar Satellite Corporation, Chellomedia, Zonemedia, Hammer Film Holdings, Daewoo Motors, Pacific Crossing and Arcadia Biosciences, as well as for a number of smaller companies.
Neil is a regular speaker at venture capital, technology, biotechnology and corporate finance events. Recent speaking engagements have included "Strategies for Successful Exits", "The Use of US Techniques in UK Venture Capital Transactions", "Strategic and Venture Investments in the Biotech Industry", "Board Restructuring Pre-IPO" and "Alignment of Exit Strategies", "Investing in the Enlarged EU" and "UK-US Mergers and Acquisitions". Neil has spoken at events in London, Copenhagen, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Barcelona. He was a mentor to CEOs of emerging companies at the European Venture Academies in Copenhagen and London, specialising in fund-raising strategies and techniques.
Neil is a member of British American Business, the transatlantic trade association, and wrote the chapter on "Transatlantic M&A" in British American Business' 2007 Guide to Investing in the UK.
Will co-founded Ubiquisys in 2004 inspired by his frustrations of poor mobile coverage and high mobile costs at home. Prior to this, he developed the hugely successful wireless innovation centres for Lucent Technologies – inventing and developing innovative solutions based on cellular, WiFi and IMS technologies. He also led Lucent’s EMEA business development for fixed wireless.
Previously Will was with Racal Electronics' radio division where he held a number of key positions including head of their Saudi Arabian operation. More recently Will pioneered the creation of the Femto Forum to bring direction and a voice to this fledgling industry.
Anil Hansjee BSc (Hons.) MSc FBCS CITP, joined Google in September 2006 as Head of Corporate Development for Europe, Middle East and Africa, based in London. He is responsible for Google's acquisitions and investments in the region as well as relationships with the early stage technology community and their backers and advisers. At Google he has established critical M&A internal processes and to date completed and integrated three acquisitions (Marratech, Panoramio and Jaiku) and completed two investments (FON, Ubiquisys) with Google's first investment in Africa also underway.
Prior to joining, Anil was a Principal with the venture capital firm IDG Ventures, where he was board director of one of their portfolio companies, the mobile music company, Shazam Entertainment. Between mid 2000 and end of 2001, Anil was a Vice President for corporate finance with Bear Stearns International in London. Between mid 1997 and mid 2000, Anil was a member of Chase Manhattan Bank's corporate finance group both in New York and London. Anil joined Chase's corporate finance team after spending the first 7 years of his professional career as a software engineer first with UBS then Chase. Anil has a BSc.(Hons.) in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from Edinburgh University and has an MSc. in Finance at London Business School. Anil is a board observer with three of Google's investments - FON (Spain) the largest WiFi community in the world, UbiquiSys (UK) the leading Femtocell developer and mTLD Top Level Domain (Eire) the official ICANN global registry for the ".mobi" top level domain. Anil is also a board member of the British Computer Society's External Relations Board.
Steve Howell is a former journalist with national and regional newspapers and BBC Wales radio and television. He founded Freshwater, then named Howell Associates, in 1997 and has developed the business from a freelance consultancy to become one of the leading public relations agencies in the UK.
As chief executive, he has overseen a growth strategy involving nine acquisitions since 2004 to create a business combining a regional network with specialist teams in technology, consumer, health and public affairs and a range of marketing support services. Freshwater now has nearly 140 staff in nine locations, including Glasgow, Cardiff, London and Brussels. The Group listed on AIM in July 2007 through a placing raising £4m.
Steve graduated in economics and history from the University of Sheffield and is a member of the Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations. He is currently the PR representative in Wales of the European Ryder Cup Board.
Over the last 20 years, Troels has been active in the international health care sector and has worked predominantly in commercial roles ranging from Product Manager for large multinationals to Managing Director for public, listed companies. Employment ranges from Leo, Denmark; J&J Orthopaedics, UK; Genzyme and IsoTis in The Netherlands; to Clinical Cell Culture (C3) Ltd and Bone Medical Ltd.
Troels' technology background ranges from absorbable medical devices to cell therapies, including more traditional orthopaedic implants and devices. Troels started working with cell therapies back in 1996 when he became part of the commercial cell therapy pioneers Genzyme, launching Carticel® in Europe, where he was responsible for 14 quarters of consecutive growth. Since then Troels has been responsible for all commercial aspects with IsoTis, who initially focused all initiatives on regenerative therapy and C3. Under Troels’ stewardship C3 obtained product approvals for 2 cell therapy products in more than 30 countries and established distribution network with more than 160 sales reps.
Today Troels is based in Cambridge with his family. Over the last 8 years Troels has been a part of Management Teams raising in excess of EUR 120 million and today has a broad network of venture capital and corporate finance contacts. Troels has two international management and marketing degrees.
Bindi is the VC/Emerging Business lead for Microsoft UK and is the UK-based member of the Emerging Business Team. She is responsible for managing the UK Startup Accelerator Programme where she focuses on how Microsoft can drive success for leading edge and early-stage technology companies. She is also responsible for managing the relationships with the UK Investor Community, including Venture Capitalists, Angels and other Investor Organisations.
Her previous role at Microsoft was as a Business Productivity Advisor, where she was responsible for managing relationships with the most influential business decision-makers in the UK Financial Services Sector. She worked closely with this audience to ignite enthusiasm and to deliver on the benefits and business value of investing in the latest Information Worker related technologies by highlighting the importance of ‘worker productivity’, from the CEO to the call centre, as critical to ongoing business success.
Prior to Microsoft, Bindi worked as an Associate Director in Interregnum, a UK-based Technology Merchant Bank; as Business Development Manager at Trayport Ltd, a highly successful commodities trading technology start-up; as a Strategy Management Consultant at PwC Consulting; and as a Senior Business Analyst at Datamonitor.
Chief Juicer and Founder of BrainJuicer Group PLC now regarded as one of the leading innovators in the international market research industry.
John’s role in conceiving, inventing and leading BrainJuicer made him Ernst & Young’s ‘Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year’ in 2005. Prior to BrainJuicer John founded innovation agency, Brand Genetics Ltd which invented new products and services for large blue-chip companies. Before starting his first business, John had been Planning Director of one of Publicis’ UK advertising agencies. John started his career over 20 years ago as a graduate of Unilever's management programme rising to be a senior marketer at Elida Gibbs before moving into advertising.
John’s recipe for entrepreneurial success is; creativity, resilience, determination, perseverance, stamina, drive, imagination, resourcefulness, courage, self-belief, commitment, ability to go without sleep and a touch of madness.
Paul Kemp has been heavily involved in commercial Tissue Engineering for the last 20 years both in the U.S. and the U.K. After post-doctoral research on the biochemistry of collagen cross-links at Manchester University, he joined Organogenesis Inc in late 1986. Boston based Organogenesis is the world’s first Tissue Engineering company and while there Paul was instrumental in the commercial development of Apligraf. Paul was heavily involved in all aspects of the pioneering of this new area of medicine and taking on several different rolls eventually becoming a Vice President.
Paul left Organogenesis in 1997 to return to the UK and founded Intercytex in 1999. This company is devoted to the cellular induction of human tissues and organs and has products in hair and skin regeneration that are undergoing clinical studies. Paul has published on Tissue Engineering and holds several patents relating to tissue engineered tissues and organs.
Saul Klein joined the London office of Index Ventures as a Partner in 2007. His primary focus is on internet services, ecommerce and online advertising companies. He currently sits on the boards of Glasses Direct and Openads.
Before joining Index, he served as the global vice president of marketing and e-commerce for Skype (recently purchased by eBay). Prior to Skype, Saul co-founded and served as CEO for Video Island, an Index-funded venture that recently merged with LoveFilm to become Europe’s leading online home entertainment service. He is also a founding partner of The Accelerator Group, where he was an active seed investor in both US and European start-ups including Moo, Netlog, Astley Clarke and Last.fm (CBS).
Saul held management positions at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond; served as the senior vice president for Firefly Network (acquired by Microsoft), and was director of digital communication at WPP’s Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide.
Saul is dedicated to broadening networking opportunities for Europe's young entrepreneurial community and in 2007 he initiated the now global Opencoffee event. He has also recently launched Seedcamp, an organisation dedicated to helping young entrepreneurs access a network of great mentors and seed funders.
From 2004-07, Tony Kypreos held the position of Group Executive Vice President - Business Development & Innovation at T-Mobile International, where he led three business units reporting to the Group CEO. His group’s responsibilities included upstream development for core propositions / key differentiators, user experience design, new business models, roadmap priorities and the European Product Creation Centre.
Prior to T-Mobile, Tony spent 4 years as a partner in a US / Europe venturing company and was previously European Vice President, Strategic Services at Omnicom Group (Agency.com) – an agency specializing in multiple digital channels, including mobile, digital TV and Internet.
His Telecoms and Technology experience is reinforced as a consumer champion from 9 years in international consumer goods sales & marketing at Nestlé SA and Diageo Plc.
Most recently Tony has been involved in a range of non-executive and advisory roles including; representation of HM Consulate (Western USA) to encourage FDI into the UK, Telecoms investment strategy advisor for a Global Japanese Private Equity organization, Non-Executive Director Wecomm Ltd, Board of Advisors TagText Ltd and strategic advisor to the board of leading Polish mobile operator.
Tony holds a BSc in Physics & Electronic Systems, Brunel University and an MBA from the Henley Management College.
Ed is a Tech/Life Sciences banking veteran who most recently was with Comerica Bank as Senior Vice President, Business Development in their Tech/Like Sciences Division. His responsibility focused on maintaining and expanding profitable relationships with Emerging Growth to Public High-Tech and Life Science Companies. Results led to a historical seven-figure Annual Net Profit to the Bank. He contributes his success to being an overall "solution source" partner to clients, prospects, referral partners and colleagues - for any problem.
Mr. Lambert began his 24 years of banking/lending experience with Bank of America. He enjoyed successful years with Silicon Valley Bank and Imperial Bank, which several years ago was acquired by Comerica Bank. Ed also began the Tech Practice for Coast Business Credit, building to $20-30MM in annual commitments. Ed is a graduate of Santa Clara University with an MBA, and holds a BA in history from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Ed is an 18-year member of the Churchill Club and currently sits on the executive committee of the American Electronics Association.
The Wall Street Journal calls Gerd one of the leading media futurists in the world. He is the co-author of the influential book The Future of Music (2005, Berklee Press), as well as the author of Music2.0 (January 2008, self-published), and of "Open is King" (Fall 2008). Gerd's background is in music (he won the Quincy Jones Award in 1986 and is a graduate of Boston's Berkee College of Music) as well in technology and the Internet (former CEO of LicenseMusic, and currently as CEO of Sonific.com). Gerd's work focuses on the overlap zones of music & content, technology, communications and culture, and he is considered an expert on topics such as Web/Media 2.0, social networking, copyright vs. technology, online content commerce models, media convergence, mobile entertainment, the future of advertising and branding, and future scenarios for digital content, and next generation business models.
Gerd's keynotes, speeches, and think-tanks are renowned for his hard-hitting, provocative yet inspiring and motivational style. With over 50 engagements in the past two years Gerd has addressed global audiences in the sectors of recorded music & music publishing, radio, TV, film/video and broadcasting, online gaming and virtual worlds, telecom & wireless, and advertising and branding. His clients include SonyBMG, RTL, ITV, the BBC, France Telekom, German Telekom, Orange, LebWeb3, Financial Times, TribalDDB, the European Commission, Nokia-Siemens, and many others. Gerd is a fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (London), and resides in Basel, Switzerland.
Steve Lewis has founded and built three category defining, sector leading companies since becoming an entrepreneur in 1993. Currently, he is the Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Teneros Inc. Teneros has developed a new category of solution for mission critical Exchange email application continuity and data protection called the Teneros Application Continuity Appliance™ for Microsoft Exchange 2003 & 2007.
Formerly, Mr Lewis was CEO of All Covered, the leading outsourced IT services company in the small business arena. Under Steve's leadership, the company grew from a single small office to the largest outsourced IT provider to small business in the US. Prior to building All Covered, Steve co-founded Pharmanex, today the world’s leading phytopharmaceutical company as a subsidiary of NuSkin (NASDAQ: NUS).
Steve has focused much of his career on global business and emerging markets. In 1993 he co-founded one of the first venture firms focused on building new enterprises in China, Generation Ventures. While at Generation Ventures, he co-founded both Guangzhou HuaMei Telecommunications, China’s first Broadband telecommunications company, and Pharmanex.
Finbarr Livesey joined the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) at the University of Cambridge in 2002, where he is currently the Director of the Centre for Economics and Policy (CEP). His work focuses on how manufacturing is described in economics, how government policy affects manufacturing (with a strong focus on innovation policy), and what the future holds for manufacturing in developed economies.
Prior to joining the Institute, Finbarr worked as a director and policy consultant with GeoPartners (Boston, Massachusetts), and as a systems developer and consultant with Cambridge Consultants Ltd. (Cambridge, UK). He is an active consultant to companies and government and is a member of the management team of Cambridge Manufacturing Industry Links Ltd.
Finbarr's original training is in Physics, which he studied at University College Cork, Ireland. He also has a Diploma in Computer Science from the Computer Laboratory and Christs College, University of Cambridge and a Masters in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Claude London is the Launch Director of BBC Worldwide’s Commercial Media Player and as such is responsible for overseeing the growth and management of the commercial strategy, product development and launch of the product. Additionally Claude coordinates the marketing strategies to develop a strong brand proposition for the service. As a result of this, he is directly involved in the continual monitoring of and communication with the commercial market. This role sits within the senior management of BBC Worldwide’s Digital Media Division and as such is a central part of BBC Worldwide’s long term digital strategy.
Before joining BBC Worldwide, Claude was the Vice President of Digital Operations at Warner Music International, where he was central to driving digital commerce expansion, growing revenues from $5M to $95M over two fiscal years. Prior to that he worked at management consultancy Bain and Company in the US, working across multi-billion pound media and technology accounts.
Andrew Lynn is Founder and Chief Executive of OrthoMimetics Limited, a Cambridge-based medical-technology company in the field of orthopaedics and regenerative medicine. Dr Lynn founded OrthoMimetics in 2005 as the first technology spin-out from the Cambridge-MIT Institute, and has since led the company to the closure of more than £7m in funding, recruitment of a world-class operational team, and manufacturing scale-up on the way to first clinical trials and market approval for the company’s flagship product, ChondroMimetic.
An engineer by training, Dr Lynn’s experience working with multidisciplinary teams of medical, scientific and commercial professionals spans ten years and three continents, and has generated intellectual property, commercial agreements and product-development programmes that address markets for sports medicine, trauma and early-stage osteoarthritis estimated in excess of £1bn per annum.
As VP of Marketing, International Ziv Navoth is responsible for the creation of an engaging user experience to attract and retain users. Prior to joining Bebo Ziv founded and ran Verve, a boutique management consultancy offering strategic advisory services to leading companies in the US, UK and elsewhere. Verve's client list included Google, Microsoft, BBC, Infospace, RealNetworks, Network Appliance and many others.
Before founding Verve, Ziv was Managing Director at Startup Station Plc; a private equity firm he founded and then sold to a UK public company. Ziv was also a co-founder of Tagma, a Logistics consultancy and Automatic For The People, a CD-vending business.
Before founding Startup Station, Ziv served as Executive Director at the Institute for Technology and Enterprise, New York's premier Management and Technology research centre. His work at the Institute focused on the disruptive effects new companies have on established businesses.
Ziv holds Bachelor's degrees in Psychology and Philosophy from Tel-Aviv University and an MBA in Innovation, Strategy, Information and Technology from the Theseus Institute in France. Ziv is also the author of Nanotales - a collection of short short stories.
John O’Donohue has spent over 20 years in the Wireless Technology sector, building wireless networks, marketing & selling networks and developing next generation wireless technology.
He set-up Motorola Ventures in Europe in the 2003 and now has expanded Ventures internationally to cover Israel and China. Motorola Ventures invests in emerging technology companies which are strategic to Motorola. In particular, technology companies focused on mobile video, WiMAX and next generation network technologies.
John has built up Motorola Ventures to be the global No2 Corporate Venture Investor. In 2007, Motorola Ventures invested in 17 new portfolio companies and had 7 exits.
Ian Pearson entered the House of Commons in the first by-election after Tony Blair was elected leader of the Labour Party in December 1994. He was appointed as a Minister in the Northern Ireland Office in November 2002 having previously served as a Government Whip and on the Education and Employment Select Committee. Ian takes a deep interest in industry, treasury and regional policy issues. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Paymaster General at HM Treasury from 1997-98 and served on the Treasury Select Committee as an opposition back bencher before the 1997 General Election.
Before his election, Ian headed up WMEB Group, a West Midlands based economic development company providing development capital to small and medium sized companies and consultancy to a range of public and private sector clients. Previously he has worked for a large accountancy practice, a national urban charity and a firm of strategic policy consultants.
Ian Pearson has a degree in economics and politics from Balliol College, Oxford, and a master's and a doctorate in industrial and Business Studies from Warwick University.
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Having appeared in the first and second series of Dragons' Den, Doug is the founder and Chairman of Library House, Founder and Vice-Chairman of the Cambridge Angels, Chairman and CEO of Trutap, and Chairman of the Conservative Party Small Business Task Force.
Doug is a successful entrepreneur with 20 years' experience in the development and leadership of technology and software ventures, both in the US and in the UK. Between 1996 and 2000 he was President and CEO of Micrografx, a US publicly-quoted software company which he sold to Corel Corp. in 2000. Prior to that he also founded and subsequently sold two other companies: Visual Software and ITAL Computers. Doug holds a BA in Psychology from University of California at Berkeley and a Juris Doctor at the school of Law, University of California at Los Angeles. In 2006 Doug was an Honorary Recipient of The Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion. In 2007, Doug became a fellow of the RSA.
Ernie Richardson, CEO & Managing Partner of MTI, is a graduate Chemical Engineer and Chartered Management Accountant with a long career in finance and general management roles in various process industries prior to joining MTI in 1985. This included periods with Ciba Geigy in Switzerland, British Steel and a spell in international banking with the Royal Bank of Canada. His final position before joining MTI was as the Chief Financial Officer in a start up venture in the oil processing sector.
He is a Director and Chairman of several of MTI’s investee companies with a general focus on software and communications. At MTI he has been responsible for a number of MTI’s most successful transactions and became CEO & Managing Partner in 2003. He is also active in a number of industry bodies including membership of the Council of the BVCA.
Dr Roberts has extensive experience in the biotechnology industry and in the applications of a range of technologies for developing new approaches to therapy.
Gareth taught Anatomy at Imperial College school of Medicine, London) and later joined industry as a Group Director of research for SmithKline Beecham (a global pharmaceutical company). He has presented at meetings and symposia all over the world on the issues and strategies for incorporating new technologies into healthcare development. He has published 4 books, more than 40 patents and over 150 papers. He has been guest lecturer on a number of MBA Entrepreneurship programmes.
He is an experienced entrepreneur, having been involved in the founding of 5 biotechnology companies, raising over £30 million in investment finance in the process. Gareth has also extensive experience in raising grant funding for research and development. In the last two years with NovaThera he has managed to secure two large DTI grants and EEC funding (combined value of £4million+) to support research and development work.
As Regional Manager for Central England, Wales and the Channel Islands, Mark is responsible for all business development and customer relationship management activity with the London Stock Exchange’s Primary Markets customer base from across these regions. This includes providing guidance to Boards and Management teams of both quoted and private companies as well as Corporate Finance Advisers and Investors on stock market-related issues, including, pre-flotation evaluation and procedures for AIM, the Main Market and the Specialist Fund Market, corporate governance, investor relations and share-trading liquidity provision. In addition, Mark also manages the London Stock Exchange’s Regional Advisory Groups - a series of UK-based groups comprising market participants that form part of the London Stock Exchange’s formal consultation process.
Mark joined the London Stock Exchange’s Company Services team in May 2000, becoming Regional Manager in 2004. Prior to that, Mark spent three years in retail and corporate banking with HSBC including the investment support division of First Direct.
Mark is a Chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM).
David is an audit and transaction support partner with over twenty years of experience with PricewaterhouseCoopers. David leads PwC’s services to the Alternative Investment Market and throughout his career he has focused on supporting mid-tier companies with all their business needs.
David’s work with AIM companies encompasses Reporting Accountant work for companies seeking an IPO on AIM as well as audit and general business advice. David regularly presents and writes on topical issues affecting AIM companies and has close contact with key AIM advisors including the London Stock Exchange. His recent reports on the impact of IFRS and the Business Review on AIM companies attracted considerable company and media interest.
With AIM increasingly attracting international companies, more recently David’s role as PwC’s AIM leader has lead to him spending more time overseas, with China being a particular focus of attention.
Chris Stone joined Northgate Information Solutions plc as Chief Executive in November 1999. At this time, the company was a hardware reseller with a number of small software based businesses and some overseas interests; it was struggling to generate consistent profits and its market capitalisation was below £40m. Shareholders and other stakeholders asked Chris to develop a strategy to deliver improved financial performance. By refocusing Northgate on the small but strategically interesting software businesses it already owned, the company was able to add value for customers by delivering a comprehensive range of supporting services, including application hosting and IT outsourcing, for these software platforms.
To generate the funds necessary to implement this strategy, Chris and the Northgate Board disposed of those businesses that did not offer significant growth or market leadership. The resulting capital was then used to fund an ambitious organic and acquisition growth programme. As a result, Northgate is now the recognized market leader in its three divisions: Public Services, Managed Services and Human Resources.
In June 2007, Chris led the strategy to move the Human Resources business to the global stage with the €375m acquisition of Arinso, a market leader worldwide in Human Resources Outsourcing and Systems Integration. In December 2007, after Northgate delivered the best set of 1H results for more than 5 years, it was announced that KKR, a premier private equity firm globally,would acquire Northgate, offering a significant premium to shareholders. KKR have asked Chris to remain to lead the business into a new phase of expansion and growth under their ownership.
Before joining Northgate, Chris held a number of senior executive positions with Digital, EDS and Accenture. He holds a BA (Hons) in Medieval French from Manchester University
Mr Tenwick has been Chief Executive Officer in StepStone since November 2001.
He joined StepStone from the position as Vice President and General Manager of Red Hat Europe, which he held since May 1999. From 1994 to 1999, Mr Tenwick held various senior positions with Sybase Corporation, including Vice President of European Marketing and Vice President and General Manager of European Operations.
Mr Tenwick graduated from the University of Brighton with a Business Degree.
Between 2003 and 2007 Simon worked at Reuters, first as Director of Corporate Communications, and subsequently becoming Director of Corporate Communications and Marketing. Before joining Reuters, he was Communications Secretary to HM The Queen at Buckingham Palace. He was previously Director of Corporate Affairs at British Airways and a non-executive director of Comair Ltd (South Africa). He was a special adviser in the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit at 10 Downing Street (1996-97).
He was previously a partner at Brunswick, the public relations group, and Director of European Public Affairs for Hill & Knowlton in Brussels. He was born in South Africa, and has worked as a journalist and consultant in New Zealand, Belgium and the UK.
He is a member of the Better Regulation Commission, a member of the UK-Jamestown Committee and a Trustee of the New Zealand-UK Link Foundation.
He read PPE at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was President of the Oxford Union. He was a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. He is married with two children.
David has been “Star Professor” in Healthcare Engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University since 2003. He is Director of the university Research School of Health and Life Sciences.
He leads the national £8m EPRSC Innovative Manufacturing Grand Challenge in Regenerative Medicine – a new industry and another major national level doctoral training initiative in regenerative medicine that is yet to be formally announced.
Between 1999 and 2003 David was Technical Director of Bespak, a major supplier of drug delivery devices to the pharmaceutical industry. This followed ten years as Professor of Manufacturing Processes at Loughborough.
His early career, while including industrial jobs with GKN and Metal Box, was primarily within the Cambridge University Engineering Department. David was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2002 and holds the PhD degree of Cambridge University and DEng degree of UMIST/University of Manchester. David is also a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.
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