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Colin Black
Colin is a chartered accountant with
considerable experience in the IT sector. In the 90’s he was FD of a
software and services group which grew to £35m in revenue and expanded
into 7 European countries, mainly by way of acquisitions and start up.
He then bought his own business via a MBO, grew it organically and by
acquisition and subsequently successfully sold to a public company. He
also has considerable experience as a non-executive director for both
private and public companies, where he has been involved in a range of
projects from recovery scenarios to AIM floatations. Colin is an active
member of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists and its
Entrepreneurship Committee.
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Graham Marsden
Graham
is a Chartered Surveyor by training. He
has been involved in the creation of
several successful companies; starting the specialisation for niche
firm of
Surveyors, Farebrother then moving on to creating the Focus central
London
database (1992) that is now owned by CoStar.
He also founded Primary
Health
Properties (1995) and Health Investments Ltd (2000) both recently sold.
He is presently a director of Astranta Asset
Management, running the successful specialist London Industrial
investor “Columbus Industrial Property Fund” on behalf
of Schroeder’s as well as undertaking specialist property consultancy
on behalf
of a number of major UK Companies.
Graham
is heavily involved in the Charity DEBRA, where he has been
a Trustee for over 20 year with roles including President of the
charity Debra
International, Treasurer of Debra UK and Chair of the UK. He is
presently Deputy President of
DEBRA International.
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Nabil Shabka
Nabil founded BiblioTech in 1996, who pioneered SaaS computing by offering web based applications and a framework for building online communities such as schoolmaster.net and postmaster.co.uk, and was CEO until 2004. BiblioTech was formed to
create and run web based applications for individuals and groups of
users. There were over 500,000 people from schools, education
districts, businesses and clubs using these services in 2004. For the
10 years prior to this Nabil was involved in London's capital
markets.
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Cliff
Smith
Cliff has almost 30 years of
experience in the computer
industry. He started his career at IBM UK and later joined Computer
Associates where he held a number of senior positions including Sales
Director Germany and Managing Director for the UK. Cliff left Computer
Associates in early 1996 to start Conversion Technologies Ltd which
later merged with Millennia III in January 1997. As a co-founder of
both organisations he was on the management team responsible for
product/service/methodology creation and delivery including the bottom
line in the UK. As well as leading from the front with the sales and
marketing effort, he was responsible for recruitment, delivery and
high-level client management. Mid-way through the second year Millennia
III was sold to EMC.
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Lawson Steele
Lawson brings to zuuMedia a wealth of
financial
expertise.
He has analysed power, gas and water companies for 25 years, achieving
number 1
rankings in Europe, Latin America and Globally. He is a chartered
accountant,
having qualified with Price Waterhouse (now PWC), and is fluent in
Spanish and
Portuguese.
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Paul Taylor
Paul has been an executive in the
UK
retail trade for over 30 years including senior positions in some of
the largest high street brands including Chairman and Managing Director
of the Dickins & Jones Group and MD of Harrods who he represented
on the Main Board of House of Fraser Plc and recently CEO and Chairman
of Hilco UK.
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Philip Waite
Philip spent 17 years in London’s
capital markets. In 1999 Philip joined BiblioTech (trading as Spider
Networks), an Internet company focused on providing a suite of
web-based applications to consumers and the education market, as
Executive Director responsible for Member Services and was responsible
for supporting the 500,000 members of BiblioTech's on-line communities.
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