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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 Business Awards presentation dinner.

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Gallery 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

• The dining hall at New Hall College, University of Cambridge The dining hall at New Hall College, University of Cambridge
• New Hall's The Dome dining hall New Hall's The Dome dining hall
• Jens Thorstrup of 'International trade' winner, Sepura Jens Thorstrup of 'International trade' winner, Sepura
• Guests assemble for dinner at New Hall College, University of Cambridge Guests assemble for dinner at New Hall College, University of Cambridge
• From left to right - Prof Alison Richard, Dr Hermann Hauser and Prof Robert Dewar From left to right - Prof Alison Richard, Dr Hermann Hauser and Prof Robert Dewar
• Trumpeters herald the Business Awards 18th anniversary 'Champion of Champions' award Trumpeters herald the Business Awards 18th anniversary 'Champion of Champions' award
• Chris Robinson of Keymed picks up the 'Innovation' award Chris Robinson of Keymed picks up the 'Innovation' award
• Prominent business angel, David Cleevely tells attendees what it takes to create a billion dollar company Prominent business angel, David Cleevely tells attendees what it takes to create a billion dollar company
• EEDA's Stuart Evans(left) with Leanne and John Mills of Plastic Logic EEDA's Stuart Evans(left) with Leanne and John Mills of Plastic Logic
• Jens Thostrup, V-P of sales and marketing at 'International trade' category winner, Sepura Jens Thostrup, V-P of sales and marketing at 'International trade' category winner, Sepura
• The 'Champion of Champions' trophy from Steuben The 'Champion of Champions' trophy from Steuben
• Paul Wells, chief executive of Charles Wells picked up 'Private company of the year.' Paul Wells, chief executive of Charles Wells picked up 'Private company of the year.'
• Charles Wells chief executive, Paul Wells with guest speaker Prof Alison Richard Charles Wells chief executive, Paul Wells with guest speaker Prof Alison Richard
• John Gourd of Johnson Matthey picking up the 'Quoted Company of the Year' award John Gourd of Johnson Matthey picking up the 'Quoted Company of the Year' award
• Walter Herriot of SJIC with Shirley Jamieson of Cambridge Enterprise and Alistair Wayne of Media Managers Walter Herriot of SJIC with Shirley Jamieson of Cambridge Enterprise and Alistair Wayne of Media Managers
• Jack Lang with Yupar Myint from the University's Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning Jack Lang with Yupar Myint from the University's Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning
• Walter Herriot, managing director of St John's Innovation Centre with Ian Mather of awards sponsor Eversheds Walter Herriot, managing director of St John's Innovation Centre with Ian Mather of awards sponsor Eversheds
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• Andy Kanter, COO of Autonomy with guest speaker, Prof Alison Richard Andy Kanter, COO of Autonomy with guest speaker, Prof Alison Richard
• Ken Hui of Awards sponsors, Honk Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation Ken Hui of Awards sponsors, Honk Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation
• Richard Hedges (left) of American Airlines with Business Weekly's Tony Quested Richard Hedges (left) of American Airlines with Business Weekly's Tony Quested
• Michael Marshall, chairman of the Marshall Group with Business Weekly MD, Tony Quested Michael Marshall, chairman of the Marshall Group with Business Weekly MD, Tony Quested
• The Technology Partnership CEO, Peter Taylor (left) and business development director, Chas Sims The Technology Partnership CEO, Peter Taylor (left) and business development director, Chas Sims
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• KILLER TECHNOLOGIES (New category)
  

• PRIVATE COMPANY  OF THE YEAR

• QUOTED COMPANY  OF THE YEAR

• INTERNATIONAL TRADE

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David Cleevely

David Cleevely is Chairman of publicly-quoted Life Sciences dot com, Abcam, a company he co-founded with Jonathan Milner and Tony Kouzarides in 1998.

Davis is also chairman of the Communications Research Network, part of the Cambridge MIT Institute, and the founder and former chairman of telecoms consultancy Analysys (acquired by Datatec International in 2004).

He has been directly involved with 3WayNetworks, Hotxt, Bango, Cambridge Network and Cambridge Wireless. He is also a member of the Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board, the Expert Panel for the Department of Media, Culture and Sport and the IET Telecoms Sector Panel.

Since selling Analysys he has continued to develop his business and academic interests and he currently holds an Industrial Fellowship at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

John 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.

Peter Dawe

Peter Dawe co-founded Unipalm, at the cutting edge of internet service provision and the company became a global player through takeovers by UUNET and WorldCom. He continues to generate innovative businesses.

Other past successes include PIPEX and Flute. Dawe is now concentrating on a number of other projects, including writing a book and the Wash Tidal barrier, an enterprise designed to protect the eastern coast of England from climate change.

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. {tab=Hall of Fame}

• 1990 - Pi Group

Pi designs and manufactures data logging, control systems and analysis software used by top level partners in motorsport, aviation, automotive and industrial measurement.

• 1991 - Domino Printing Sciences
Domino Printing Sciences is a world-leader in ink jet and laser technologies offering total coding and printing solutions.


• 1992 - Perkins Engines

• 1993 - Roxboro

• 1994 - Pi Group

• 1995 - Willett International

• 1996 - Electrocomponents

• 1997 -TTP

• 1998 - Waymade Healthcare

• 1999 - 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.

• 2000 - Virata

• 2001 - Ryanair

• 2002 - Acambis

• 2003 - CSR

• 2004 - CSR

• 2005 - Cambridge Antibody Technology

• 2006 - AVEVA

• 2007 - Autonomy

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