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SUMMARY:Martin Rigby to address Entrepreneurs on the Move 29th April at Eagle Labs
DESCRIPTION:Martin Rigby has been a venture capital fund manager for over 30 years. He is founder and managing director of ET Capital Limited\, an early-stage venture investment firm based in Cambridge. ET Capital has managed 10 funds since 1993\, including the Cambridge Venture Index series of funds – which apply an index investment approach to backing early-stage\, deep-science businesses emerging in Cambridge and other innovation clusters. \nHe is chairman of FSE Group\, which manages a series of equity and debt funds across the UK with £200M+ AUM. He is also a non-executive director of VPC Specialty Lending PLC a quoted UK investment trust (LSE: VSL). \nPrior to founding ET Capital\, he was an investment manager at 3i plc and has also been chairman of MJog\, the medtech messaging business\, and a non-executive director of Bango plc (AIM: BGO) the mobile payments provider. He is an advisory board member of The Bettany Centre for Entrepreneurship at Cranfield University. He read history for his first degree at New College\, Oxford\, has an MBA from Cranfield and a degree in IT and Computing from The Open University. \nPitch and Polish\n\n\n\nName: Kay Dosunmu\n\n\n\nCompany: Blu Marble\n\n\n\nCompany bio: Blu Marble is a premium flavoured coffee sachet brand\, delivering a high-quality coffee experience in a convenient\, recyclable tea bag format. Where we truly separate ourselves from the market is through our commitment to experimental flavour’s\, developed using food science to engineer taste profiles that go far beyond anything traditional coffee has offered. By applying food science principles to flavour development\, we can create precise\, consistent\, and repeatable taste experiences that cannot be achieved through conventional brewing or flavouring methods\n  \n  \nCome for the talk\, come for the food\, come for the connections! But please sign up here: \nPlease enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.First Name *Last Name *Email *OrganisationProfile for delegate list (distributed at the event)CheckboxesI am willing to contribute £5.00 (+VAT) towards the cost of this event. While not compulsory your contribution will be flagged in the delegate list. Thank you.I would also like to subscribe to the Connected Cambridge Weekly newsletter.WebsiteSubmit
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LOCATION:Eagle Labs\, Chesterton Road\, Cambridge\, CB4 3AZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Entrepreneurs on the Move
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SUMMARY:Colin Smithers to address Entrepreneurs on the Move 27th May at Eagle Labs
DESCRIPTION:Colin completed BSc and PhD degrees at Surrey University when its nascent satellite program was being conceived; accordingly\, he also builds flight modules the first two satellites. \nHe then attended PA technology where he met Tim jackson and Ian murphy and went on to co-found Plextek as a design house specialising in communication technology. \nPlextek then span out a number of related companies\, notably Telensa (street light metering)\, Redtail Telematics (black box tracking for insurance and Stolen vehicle Recovery) and Blighter Surveillance Systems (electronic scanning radar for border incursion\, drone detection and coastal protection) \nOver time the Plextek group has been awarded four Queens Awards for Enterprise and Redtail Telematics was placed 40th in this year’s Sunday Times Growth 100 Awards. \nPlextek\, Blighter and Redtail are presently all growing and profitable\, but not without each crossing several chasms. \nColin is also chair of the Stradivari Trust\, a charity that syndicates the acquisition of fine stringed instruments for fantastic young talent \nCome for the talk\, come for the food\, come for the connections! But please sign up here: \nPlease enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.First Name *Last Name *Email *OrganisationProfile for delegate list (distributed at the event)CheckboxesI am willing to contribute £5.00 (+VAT) towards the cost of this event. While not compulsory your contribution will be flagged in the delegate list. Thank you.I would also like to subscribe to the Connected Cambridge Weekly newsletter.EmailSubmit
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LOCATION:Eagle Labs\, Chesterton Road\, Cambridge\, CB4 3AZ\, United Kingdom
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