Pizzas at Midnight: What Starting Your Own Business is Really Like!
Date/Time: Tuesday 23rd June 2009 at 3.30pm – 5pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 1, Business School
Pizzas at Midnight is a joint Graduate School event looking at the reality behind the dream of starting your own business. Two senior Imperial academics, Professor Dick Kitney and Dr John Hassard, take you behind the scenes and share their experiences of starting their own successful companies. The pitfuls and triumphs, the blood, sweat and tears and, of course, those pizzas at midnight…
The event will be chaired by Dr Brittnay Jones of the Business School and will end with a question and answer session.
This event is unticketed but if you have any questions, please contact graduate.schools@imperial.ac.uk
Biographies
Professor Richard Kitney OBE FREng
Professor Kitney is Professor of BioMedical Systems Engineering; Director of the Graduate School of Engineering and Physical Sciences; and Chair of the Institute of Systems and Synthetic Biology. He is co-founder and Chair of Visbion Ltd, an Imperial spin-out company. Visbion is a medical imaging software company, providing market leading Dicom and Picture Archive and Communications Systems (PACS) solutions. The technology within the company is the result of 15 years of research in Professor Kitney’s laboratory at Imperial.
Dr Mark Richards
Mark has a BSc in Chemistry, and a PhD in Physics from Imperial College London. He also has several years experience in industry as a technical consultant within the spectroscopy division of a global analytical instruments manufacturer, in addition to several years IT and finance experience. In 2002, Mark returned to Imperial as a Post Doctoral Researcher to manage a Technology Transfer Project based around developing high throughput environmental sensor networks. He successfully managed project progression from an academic prototype to full commercialisation of the technology. His recent work also focused on the development and validation of a range of spectroscopic products including the use of ultraviolet light and fluorescence to reliably and rapidly detect species at low concentrations. Mark is currently a Director of Duvas Technologies – an Imperial College spin-out company specialising in real-time air pollution monitoring and mapping. .
Dr Brittany Jones (Chair)
Brittany Jones is a visiting lecturer at Imperial College Business School. Her research interests include the staffing decisions that face new business units and start-ups, and organisational design issues in scaling up new ventures. She has both an MBA and PhD from the London Business School, where she was also a research fellow. Before undertaking her MBA, Brittany worked as a researcher in a small-business incubator in Tokyo, Japan.