A director and founder of JAMES GILL & Co. and DIME – Deal and Investment Monitor Europe, Alasdair has spent the last ten years doing due diligence, valuations, financial modelling and research work for clients including well known VC firms, Fortune 500 pharmaceutical companies, investment banks, corporate finance houses and start-ups. Prior to this he worked in an IT Startup in the healthcare industry and in private equity....

Simon is an innovative strategic communicator who has mastered the dark art of storytelling in order to differentiate in international, cross-cultural environments. Equally at home when working with large corporates and with start-ups, Simon has enough experience not to drink the Kool Aid, but to focus on making sure the message is right first time. Although one degree of error doesn’t sound like much, think big: if you’re shooting for the Moon, you’d miss by several hundred miles....

Paul Walsh has lived and worked in Cambridge since 1995, when he came here to work as a software development manager at Ionica. After that he went to work for Virata. Both companies are credited as being part of the “Cambridge Phenomenon”, but one came to an unhappy end and the other provided a successful exit for investors when it floated on NASDAQ. He has used these experiences to help form start-up companies. Currently he is CEO and co-founder at CogniDox, whose eponymous...

Charles is an experienced consultant/adviser who also has extensive experience of working with innovative start-ups; startup ventures and companies through the whole business life cycle. Throughout a long and successful career, he has developed an in-depth understanding of the key skills that growing businesses need including how to raise finance, embedding operational management into ‘market-ready’ companies and improving the profile of businesses and their products. Charles is a Growth Coach and a Consultant on the MAS Consultancy Register....