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About Me

Traditional techy's life progression: s/w engineer; MBA; consultant; entrepreneur; angel investor & philanthropist. Founded Multimap.com in 1995; sold it to Microsoft in 2007.

Now doing research and some angel investments around the worldwide Taxi service industry, and learning how to do venture philanthropy.

Location:
United Kingdom, London
Current role:
Angel Investor
Gender:
Male
I am:
Engineer, Entrepreneur, Foodie, Idea generator, Investor, Philanthropist, Technologist, Web guru, World traveler
Languages:
English, French
My website links:
Multimap
Universities:
Theseus, University of Sussex
TED conferences attended:
TED2014, TED2013, TEDGlobal 2012, TED2012, TEDGlobal 2011, TED2011, TEDGlobal 2010, TED2010, TEDGlobal 2009, TED2009, TED2008
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I'm passionate about

Entrepreneurship, Innovation; Zero Carbon Energy, Sailing; food & wine.

Talk to me about

Innovation, mentoring, sailing, wine, low carbon energy, worldwide taxi services

People don't know that I'm good at

Keeping cool in a crisis

My TED Story

At my first TED (Global 2005) there were questions from the floor - one guy asks Richard Dawkins what one additional sense he would like human beings to gain; Chris pointed out that question was from Craig Venter - one guy who probably could genetically enhance humanity... I realised that this was no ordinary conference; that profound thoughts and profound thinkers were all around me; that it was an extraordinary privilege to be there and that I needed to listen very closely.... to speakers, to questions and to seemingly throwaway lines that might soon change world :)

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