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JEEF I.S.M. Seminar in July
"The Dynamics of Entrepreneurship: Moving outside the comfort zone"
and a short presentation called:
"Preparing the Business Plan"
Date: Thursday 10th July 2008
Time: from 7PM
At: Nippon Club
2nd Floor, Samuel House
6 St Alban’s Street
London SW1Y 4SQ
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Admission: £3 for JEEF member (Annual membership fee £24)
£7 for non-member
Booking:
Please email to Ms Aya Hokimoto at
aya.london@googlemail.com
Speaker: Mr Hugh Purser
Mr Hugh Purser is a director of Asia Pacific Technology Network (APTN), which is a think tank about Asia Pacific high technology and developed out of work carried out in Chatham House (then the Royal Institute for International Affairs). He will talk about the dynamics of entrepreneurship and the business plan. As Hugh has been a judge for the Cambridge University students’ business plan competition, we can expect useful suggestions about entrepreneurship.
Profile:
Hugh Purser spent 17 years living and working in Asia engaged in investment management, and in the licensing and commercialisation of technology and biotechnology. He was Director of Business Development at Singapore’s Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, and later fulltime consultant in the Executive Director's Office of Singapore's National Science & Technology Board (now A*Star). He was a member of the first regional coordinating group of the UNDP-sponsored International Vaccine Institute in Seoul. He was Director of a specialist technology start-up venture capital fund, the Technology Fund.
In 2004 he became international adviser to the Global BioBusiness Initiative at the Marshall School, University of Southern California, and a judge for GBI’s Biobusiness Leadership Award series. Hugh has for several years been a judge for the Cambridge University students’ business plan competition.
He was a Director of Algometrics (Cayman) Limited, a hedge fund, and Senior Vice President of Algometrics Limited, the management company based in London.
He is a member of Asia Pacific Technology Network’s Advisory Board, and of the International Relations committee of the Greater Cambridge Partnership. Hugh is interim Chairman/Mentor of Exudo, a company providing membership, portal and e-commerce systems to social, business and consumer networks.
Hugh is a keen student of aikido and shodo.
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