Tanaka Business School Centenary Series New Business Challenge Prize Giving Ceremony 21 March 2007 The Entrepreneurship Centre Tanaka Business School.

Tanaka Business School Centenary Series

New Business Challenge Prize Giving Ceremony

21 March 2007

The Entrepreneurship CentreTanaka Business School

Programme for this evening

• Introduction & overview• Finalists’ elevator pitches• Keynote speaker

– Stephen Voller, Co-founder & CEO, Voller Energy

• The Rector• Announcement of prize winners

– Prof. David Begg, Tanaka Centenary Prize– Mr. Stephen Voller, Voller Sustainability Prize– Sir Richard Sykes, Challenge Prizes

… then drinks in the Forum Café

Introduction

• Entrepreneurship Centre– Embed entrepreneurship throughout the College– Support Imperial entrepreneurs

• Entrepreneurs’ Challenge– Ideas Challenge, Autumn term– New Business Challenge, Spring term

New Business Challenge 2007

• New Business Challenge prizes– First prize: £25,000 including £15,000 in

services– Two runners-up prizes: £5,000 including

£2,000 in services– Seven remaining finalists: £1,000

• 35 business plans entered

• 122 Imperial students

• … plus 25 mentors and external team members

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Challenge Sponsors

Challenge Mentors

Mentoring sessions to Challenge entrants from• Sainsbury Management Fellows:

– James Raby– Richard Atkinson– Ian Daly– Piers Copham– Chirag Shah– Ernie Poku– Andy Doe– Richard Smith– Martin Dickinson

• Matt Dixon, Patent Attorney

First-round Judges, Monday 12th March

• James Raby, Senior MD, MCC Media Advisors• Alain Panhard, Global Treasury Manager, Upstream

Finance, Shell

• Annalisa Gigante, Director Commercialisation, Innovation & Product Launch, DSM N.V.

• John Murphy, Associate Partner, Financial Services Strategy and Change , IBM Global Services

• Tariq Osman, Vice President, Business Development, BTG International

• Bruno Cotta, Manager, Business Research Practice, Imperial College London

First-round Judges, Tuesday 13th March

• Matthew Grey, Creative Director, Social Suicide• James Raby, Senior MD, MCC Media Advisors

• Richard Atkinson, CEO, Optical Antenna Solutions• Ernest Poku, CEO, Crescent Diagnostics• Jonathan Silverman, Partner, Silverman Sherliker

Solicitors

• Dominique Kleyn, Head of Biopharma Business Development, Imperial Innovations

First-round Judges, Wednesday 14th March

• Matthew Grey, Creative Director, Social Suicide

• Ben Holmes, Principal, Index Ventures• Matt Dixon, Patent Attorney and Director, ip21 Ltd.• Usman Akram, Investment Professional, Atlas Venture

Group• Kevin Sara, Private Investor & PhD researcher, Imperial

College Centre for Energy Policy and Technology• Chris Haley, Market Research Analyst,

Engineering/Technology, Imperial Innovations

Finalist judges, Wednesday 21st March

• Martin Bloom, Partner, Cambridge Accelerator Partners• David Charters, Private Investor

• Keith Howick, Senior Partner, Carpmaels & Randford

• Charles Martin, Sector Adviser, 3i

• Graham Brett, Founder and MD, therefore - product and design consultants

Challenge Entrants

Finally, thanks to all 122 of you!

Challenge organisers

• Dr Tim Meldrum: Entrepreneurship Centre Manager

• Sabrina Kiefer: Entrepreneurs’ Challenge Manager

• Frederique Dunnill, Entrepreneurship Centre Administrator

Elevator pitches

Our Finalists …

Cabin Fever

Gregory Epps

Monica Chong

Dynamic Therapeutics Ltd

Mario Iobbi

Andrew Selves

hera.miko

Komal Vora

Helen Wilde

Rachel Tomlinson

Pollegraphix

Aditya Misra-Godwin

Matthew Woods

David Millson

Grishma Patel

Lennart Bittermann

SpineStrength Ltd

John Goulding

Douglas Higgins

Student Barber Shop (SBS)

Shin HwangLaurent Van Houcke

Thomas Luth Chengwen Chen

SWALE Umbrella

Jwu OoiIwan Ngian

Shunsuke WashiyaWesley NgAlvin Yap

Nga Yan Man

THE LIFT

Michael Korn

James Eedes

Clara Gaggero

Andrew Goodman

Syed Jafri

Treadsonic

David ShoneJad Marrouche

Christopher ChenZamaan Raza

Matheus Van Den Bergh

VIRITIDE

Poj GavinlertvatanaKai Kathy To

Emily Wei Kai-lan Catherine Chang

Keynote address

Stephen Voller

Co-founder and CEO

Voller Energy

© Voller Energy Group PLC 2007 27www.voller.com

Making fuel cell systems work

Stephen Voller, CEO


Conserving biodiversity while offsetting carbon

emissions



Voller Energy Group PLC (LSE:VLR)

• Founded 2002

• Clean energy solutions for a lower carbon economy

• Based in Basingstoke, UK

• Floated on AIM in February 2005



PC Growth dramatic

1980 1990 2000 2010

Personal Computers

1981 : Nobody predicted the true killer app – email and internet

Growth happened first in US



Cell phone – massive growth

1980 1990 2000 2010

Mobile phones

1985 : Nobody predicted the true

killer app – text messaging internet

Growth happened first in Europe & Asia



• Climate change presents very serious global risks

– the scientific evidence is now overwhelming and it demands an urgent global response

• A portfolio of technologies will be

required to stabilise emissions– new technologies already exist

but are currently uncompetitive compared to fossil fuel alternatives

• By 2050 a new market worth

over $500+ billion per year will be created

– driven by the commercial needs for low-carbon, high efficiency goods and services

* Source : Stern Review : The Economics of Climate Change (HM Treasury 30 Oct 2006)

Stern Review * : current carbon based economy is unsustainable

$500bn+

market

by 2050



Fuel cells – massive growth potential

1980 1990 2000 2010 2020

Fuel cells

2006 : What is the killer app ?

Where will growth happen first ?



We’re hiring : [email protected]

Sir Richard Sykes, Rector, Imperial College

And now for the Awards…

• Final decision came down to the teams the judging panel believed:– Had the passion to succeed– Would use the money to grow the business– Had developed a unique product to solve a market need– Had written a great business plan

• If you didn’t win a major prize… please prove the judges wrong!

Tanaka Business School Centenary Prize

Presented by

Prof. David Begg

Principal, Tanaka Business School

Tanaka Business School Centenary Prize

VIRITIDE

Poj Gavinlertvatana, Kai Kathy To, Emily Wei,

Kai-lan Catherine Chang

Voller Energy Sustainability Prize

Presented by

Stephen Voller, CEO

Voller Energy Sustainability Prize

Treadsonic

David Shone, Jad Marrouche, Christopher Chen, Zamaan Raza,

Matheus Van Den Bergh

Runners-Up, New Business Challenge 2007

Runners-up

£5,000


Dynamic Therapeutics Ltd

Mario IobbiAndrew Selves


VIRITIDE

Poj Gavinlertvatana, Kai Kathy To, Emily Wei,

Kai-lan Catherine Chang

Winner, New Business Challenge 2007

First Prize

£25,000

Winner, New Business Challenge 2007

THE LIFT

Michael Korn, James Eedes, Clara Gaggero,

Andrew Goodman, Syed Jafri

Thanks for attending!

Join us for drinks and snacks in the Tanaka Business School Forum

(just outside)

Tanaka Business School Centenary Series New Business Challenge Prize Giving Ceremony 21 March 2007 The Entrepreneurship Centre Tanaka Business School.

Documents

new business challenge

challenge entrants

challenge mentors

challenge sponsors

business plans

patent attorney slide

imperial college london

spring term slide