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WinnersENTRY HAS NOW CLOSED FOR THE 2007 AWARDS. THE 2008 COMPETITION WILL BE RELAUNCHED AT THE END OF AUGUST
The Champion of Champions accolade was held to mark the 18th anniversary of Business Weekly’s Awards competition. ARM was spun out of Acorn with a handful of engineers and just £1 million but this year passed the milestone of having shipped 10 billion processors – one for every person on the planet. It is now shipping around 8 million processors per day. Serial entrepreneur Hermann Hauser told around 200 top executives at the presentation dinner that when the infant ARM first approached Intel with their technology: “They said to get lost. Now Intel is a licensee and before long ARM will have shipped 20 billion processors – two for every person on the planet.” ARM director Graham Budd said Business Weekly’s judges had spotted the company’s potential way ahead of the markets. The Cambridge company this week underlined its global growth with major expansion in Bangalore. Autonomy won the Business of the Year title after a fantastic 12 months. Ian Mather, senior partner in Cambridge for lead sponsor, Eversheds, said: “In choosing the Business of the Year, the judges always look for that certain ‘wow’ factor over the preceding 12 months and Autonomy had that in spades. “Autonomy is the acknowledged leader in the rapidly growing area of Meaning-Based Computing. Founded in 1996 and utilizing a unique combination of technologies borne out of research at Cambridge University, the company has experienced a meteoric rise and currently has a market cap of $4 billion and offices worldwide.” Professor Alison Richard, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, was guest speaker and presented the Business of the Year and four category Awards – stunning obelisks from Steuben in New York. Johnson Matthey, the Royston based precious metals giant, was named Quoted Company of the Year; Charles Wells Ltd, the Bedford-based brewer and retail business won Private Company of the Year. KeyMed, an Essex based innovator in medical and industrial products took the coveted Innovation category and Sepura – now the world’s second largest TETRA radio supplier – received the International Trade award. Business Weekly’s Awards were this year sponsored by law firm Eversheds , Royal Bank of Scotland , BAA Stansted , Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks Corporation and property specialist SEGRO Photography at the presentation evening by Cameo Photography Staging and audio-visual technology by QAV
GalleryGallery of the East of England Business Awards 2007 Presentation Evening - click on the image to start the slideshow Photography at the presentation evening by Cameo Photography Staging and audio-visual technology by QAV
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• NB From all these categories, the judges will choose a Business of the Year. The Business of the Year then joins winners from the previous competitions in the Champion of Champions head-to-head.
Judges PanelJohn Snyder John Snyder is one of many entrepreneurs in the high-tech cluster around Cambridge who commercialised technology originally researched within Cambridge University.In 1992 he teamed up with Martin Porter and started Muscat, the natural language search software company, which commercialised "concept-based" searching. John built up the a strong customer base of international corporations over a five year period, before negotiating the sale of Muscat in 1997 to The Dialog Corporation, the large aggregator of online business information. In 1999 John took a small team of three engineers and built a 300 million document index of the internet in just 12 weeks on a small cluster of Linux machines, launching it as the WebTop subsidiary of The Dialog Corporation. Through 2000, he grew the WebTop team to 40 plus staff and the internet index to 500 million documents, drawing on new ideas of P2P (peer-to-peer) networks. In 2001 he "retired" to Cambridge University as Director of Business Creation. John is a Partner of CAP Partners LLP, a new fund manager, authorised by the FSA. He is also a Cambridge Angels business angel and has invested privately in local technology companies. John serves as a Board member of the East of England Development Agency and continues to be "Entrepreneur In Residence" at Cambridge University. Richard Longdon
Richard Longdon received his engineering training in the defense industry and gained experience in project management of high value engineering projects. He moved into sales and held a series of international sales and marketing positions before joining AVEVA in 1984. Shortly afterwards, Mr. Longdon was made marketing manager for process products. In January 1992, he relocated to Frankfurt to set up and run the group's German office. He returned to the UK as part of the management buyout team in 1994, taking responsibility for the group's worldwide sales and marketing activities, before being appointed managing director in May 1999. He took over as group chief executive in December 1999. Laurence Garrett
Laurence Garrett is the local director for the Cambridge office of 3i and a partner of the 3i Venture Team. He joined 3i in 1994 from the San Francisco office of Deloitte and Touche. With a degree in Computer Science from Sheffield, and an accountancy background, he specialises in semiconductor and wireless communication investments for 3i. Laurence is currently a Non-Executive Director on the boards of Cambridge Semiconductor, Elixent Holdings Ltd and Metalysis Ltd. He also represents 3i on his most recent investment in Ezurio. In the past Laurence represented 3i on the boards of CSR (IPO on LSE), Trigenix (sold to Qualcomm), TTPCom (IPO on LSE), Select Software (IPO on NASDAQ), Adaytum (sold to Cognos), STNC (sold to Microsoft) and Brann Communications (sold to Synder Communications). Hermann Hauser
Hermann co-founded Amadeus Capital Partners in 1997 with Anne Glover and Peter Wynn. In his long and successful history as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, he has founded or co-founded companies in a wide range of technology sectors. These include Acorn Computers, Active Book Company, Virata, Net Products, NetChannel, and Cambridge Network Limited. He was a founder director of IQ (Bio), IXI Limited, Vocalis, SynGenix, Advanced Displays Limited, Electronic Share Information Limited and E*Trade UK.At Amadeus Hermann has been a non-executive director of many investee companies including CSR and Entropic Research Laboratory, a company that developed voice recognition software, which is now the voice recogniser in Microsoft Word. Entropic was sold to Microsoft in 1999. Hermann holds an MA in Physics from Vienna University and a PhD in Physics from the Cavendish Laboratory at King's College, Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and of the Royal Academy of Engineering and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Hermann holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Bath, Loughborough and from Anglia Polytechnic, and was awarded an Honorary CBE for ‘innovative service to the UK enterprise sector’ in 2001. In 2004, he was made a member of the Government’s Council for Science & Technology. Charles Cotton
Charles is Non-Executive Director of Library House and has extensive experience running global private and public technology companies based in the US and Europe. In addition, he has delivered high-level consulting assignments in Europe and Asia. In addition to his Library House involvement, he is a Director of Solarflare Communications; a Supervisory Board Member of Tele Atlas, the Euronext Amsterdam listed supplier of digital maps; an investor in and adviser to venture capital firms; and a business angel. Previously, he was Executive Chairman of GlobespanVirata Inc. the NASDAQ listed, New Jersey based, semiconductor company. Prior to the merger with GlobeSpan, he was CEO of Santa Clara based Virata Corp. He took Virata public on NASDAQ, in 1999, raised $674 million across six financing rounds, executed five acquisitions and established and ran a venture fund. Michael Marshall
Founded in 1909 as an automobile company in Cambridge, Marshall entered the aviation business in 1929. The Marshall Group, still a privately owned company, is chaired by Michael Marshall, the third generation of the Marshall family, and has a turnover approaching £650M per annum.The Group of Companies currently has an employment approaching 4000 working in the fields of Aerospace Engineering, Specialist Vehicle Design and manufacture, Engineering Consutancy Skills for Military Rapid Mobility Solutions and Hospitals, Motor Car Sales and Service, Truck and Refrigerated Transport Sales and Service, and Property Ownership and Management. Marshall Aerospace runs Cambridge City Airport, one of the best equipped Regional Airports in the UK. John Lee
John Lee has held senior financial and general management positions in both multinational and younger technology companies. Through Odyssey Ventures, a seed capital fund, John invests in early-stage technology companies where he plays a key role in building and developing their businesses. John is also CFO at up and coming fabless semiconductor company, CamSemi. He is a director of some of his investee companies, a member of the Cambridge University Challenge Fund/Venture Capital Committee and is actively involved in the Prince of Wales Trust. Hall of FameWinners of the Business of the Year title
Pi designs and manufactures data logging, control systems and analysis software used by top level partners in motorsport, aviation, automotive and industrial measurement.
ARM designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital
products, from wireless, networking and consumer entertainment
solutions to imaging, automotive, security and storage devices.
A developer human monoclonal antibody therapeutics, CAT was the first UK biotech to jointly develop a 'blockbuster' drug. The company was acquired by AstraZeneca in 2006 and subsequently incorporated into MedImmune.
CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS - ARM ARM designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital products, from wireless, networking and consumer entertainment solutions to imaging, automotive, security and storage devices.
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Chip designer ARM created another slice of Cambridge corporate history
when it was named Champion of Champions – effectively the best local
company of all time – at Business Weekly’s star-studded East of England
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