Alba events in January, 2011
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Winter Investment Seminars
Jan 11 27 Start: 09:30 End: 13:30
WINTER INVESTMENT SEMINARS
The Alba Innovation Centre is home to 21 growing technology companies and related organisations. The Centre is a focus for investors with £2.2m invested over the past six months and a further three deals in the pipeline. As part of the support to the companies based in the Centre and the wider technology community a series of three investment related seminars are planned, the first of which will be:
27 January 2011. ‘New Year - New Challenges'
Better times ahead? A review of 2010 and what to expect in 2011
Speaker: Stuart McKnight, Managing Director, Ascendant Limited
Stuart studied engineering at the University of Strathclyde before taking an MBA at Manchester Business School. Prior to forming Ascendant in 2003, he worked for Hill Samuel, Nomura, Regent Associates and Cobalt Corporate Finance. He has advised companies on M&A and fund raising in the UK and internationally. Regular readers of Young Company Finance will be familiar with his quarterly reviews of investment in the technology sector.
New Year's resolution: Getting your business proposition into shape
Speaker: Stuart Deed, Managing Director, Launch Point Limited
Formed in 2010, Launch Point is a group of associates focusing on the development of technologies and services in the clean tech sector. The business helps individuals and companies with early stage ideas and concepts to achieve their commercial goals. Formerly, Stuart was Head of Business Partnering for SSE plc and will be known to many for his role in SSE Ventures. He has extensive experience as a non-exec director of early stage growing technology companies.
Deals can still be done
Speaker: Stuart Bain, CEO Design LED Products Ltd
Stuart has over 20 years' international experience in senior management and business leadership. In his current role he has been driving a seven figure growth funding round which will enable the company to fully exploit their LED light-guide technology in the global lighting and LCD TV markets. Critical to the current fund-raising has been relationship building with key strategic partners. Stuart will share his experiences during this funding round and bring the audience right up to date with news of the progress being made. Hopefully this will demonstrate that deals can still be done.
Venue: Alba Innovation Centre, Livingston
Time: Coffee 09.30-10.00 start. Followed by buffet lunch 12.30-13.30
Registration: This event is targeted at the founders, MDs and CEOs of technology companies planning to raise equity finance. Advisers and professional intermediaries will be welcome on the condition that each brings at least one tech company representative with them. Please register by e-mailing name(s), title(s), organisation(s) and contact details to michelle.hutcheson@innovationcentre.org. Attendance is free of charge.
Dates for the diary:
Tuesday 15 February - Topics: Investor selection / Deal brokers / ‘The perfect pitch'
Tuesday 22 March - Topics: Value creation / Valuation / Due diligence
