| What: |
Opportunities and obstacles in Serial Entrepreneurship |
| Who: |
Alex van Someren, Entrepreneur in Residence at the Judge Business School |
| When: |
19 Mar 09 , registration from 18:00 - event starts 30 mins later, ending at 21:00 |
| Where: |
University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Woolgate Exchange, 25 Basinghall Street, London EC2V 5HA map |
  The MIT Enterprise Forum of the UK is delighted to welcome Alex van Someren, Entrepreneur in Residence at the Judge Business School, as our next speaker in the Distinguished Entrepreneur event series.
How do you decide when something is an opportunity worth pursuing? What kinds of obstacles are you likely to face as you go along? Alex will share some of his own experiences in founding and operating four different ICT businesses, two of which have had exits through IPOs. He also promises that your own experience will be completely different, but that's no excuse for not coming to listen!
Alex van Someren became involved with local firm Acorn Computer as a young teenager and left school at 17 to join the company, where he worked on the BBC Microcomputer and its successor the Acorn Electron. With his brother, Dr. Nicko van Someren, he established a business selling computer hardware products within their father's company, Aleph One, in 1986. They went on to set up their first independent business ANT Ltd, now ANT plc, in 1990 to produce networking products including Web Browser software which they licensed to the Oracle Corporation.
In 1996 he and Nicko founded nCipher with venture capital backing to develop internet security products using cryptography. nCipher plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2000 and counts major banking, finance and government among its customers around the world. ANT plc was listed on the London AIM market in 2005 and is now positioned in the embedded software market for IPTV. nCipher plc was sold to Thales SA in October 2008.
He still lives in Cambridge with his wife and three children, where he is an active member of the local entrepreneurial community. He is currently an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and a Non-Executive Director of Inkski Limited.
The Chicago Booth European Private Equity and Entrepreneurship Roundtable
The Roundtable contributes to the intellectual debate by gathering and sharing information regarding trends and facts in the private equity industry and in the entrepreneurial space; provides direct access to key industry players, becoming a point of reference for students, alumni and operators.
Global Entrepreneur Programme - UKTI
The Global Entrepreneur Programme identifies and provides overseas entrepreneurs with global potential in the life sciences and information and technology sectors with Dealmaker support and assistance to successfully establish new technology based opportunities and global headquarters in the UK. http://www.entrepreneurs.gov.uk/
About the MIT Enterprise Forum of the UK
Part of an international network of MIT Enterprise Forums providing connections between technology entrepreneurs and its global communities, the UK Forum is open to all individuals, entrepreneurs and investors passionate about driving technological enterprise and innovation, whether MIT alumni or non-alumni.
Canapés and drinks will be served during the course of the evening, which is free of charge to all attendees who register, and is kindly sponsored by the Global Entrepreneur Programme |
