Seventeenth Successful Forum
Release date: 12 July 2010
Connect Yorkshire hosted its seventeenth successful Investment Forum (8th July 2010) at the Aspire in Leeds.
The event was sponsored by Financial Leeds and Yorkshire Proof of Concept; saw the cream of the high growth sector rubbing shoulders with industry leaders, regional businesses, and high profile investors.
Connect held its Investment Forum in the morning session, with nine emerging high growth companies pitching their business plans to an investment panel and an audience consisting of investors, entrepreneurs, Connect Yorkshire sponsor and partners from around the region.
This year’s panel, included:
Peter Armitage, Investment Partner of Key Capital Partners
Josh Bell, Partner and Head at FS Investments of Dawn Capital
John Kenny, Investment Professional of Delta Partners
Richard Doyle, Radish Investments
Alan Wallace, Investment Director of Octopus Ventures Limited
Colin Stirling, Partner of Spirit Capital Partners LLP
James Bird, Associate of Bridges Ventures
Malcolm Kpedekpo, Partner of Panoramic Growth Equity
Edward Wass, Investment Manager of Catapult Venture Managers Limited
Karen McCormick, Investment Director of Beringea LLP
David Milroy, Fund Manager of Maven Capital Partners UK
Norman Molyneux, Chief Executive Officer
Andrew Muir, Co-Chairman of Fund Board of HG Tech Fund LLP
This year’s presenting companies, pitching for investment included:
Shopbox Systems Limited, www.shopbox.co.uk
Bravi UK Limited, www.bravi.uk.com
StormMQ Limited www.stormmq.com
R3 Products, www.fflap.com
Ffflap, www.fflap.com
GTE Consultants Limited, www.gtegroup.co.uk
Kick4change CIC, www.kick4change.org
Structure Vision Limited, www.structurevision.com
Crompton Mouldings Limited, www.cromptonmouldings.co.uk
This year’s exhibiting companies included:
Pescredo Sports International Limited
Tyre Technology (Heat) Limited
Virtual Runner
At the Investment Forum, for the first time there was an additional exhibition area to showcase the budding University projects within Yorkshire’s growth sector.
Designed to connect you with a greater number and broader range of opportunities that are currently or soon to be seeking finance, you will find four businesses/projects, at various stages of development in this space. They made formal presentations in the afternoon session at the forum.
This year’s uuniversity projects included:
Seren Photonics Limited
Avoco Medical Limited
eTect Electronic Biomarker Detection
Solvent-Free Continuous Co-crystallisation
The selection of companies to present at the Investment Forum has been greatly helped by a group of volunteers from our sponsors.
Alan Brocklehurst, Sadofsky's
Andy Camenisch, Harrison Goddard Foote
Chris Blackburn, Garbutt & Elliott LLP
Christian Hunt, Clarion Solicitors LLP
David McWilliams, Withers & Rogers LLP
Emma Marsden, Walker Morris
Gareth Greaves-Milner, MFL Science & Technology
Graham Garbett, Garbutt & Elliott LLP
James Fellows, RM Corporate Solutions Ltd
Jeremy Oliver, Garbutt & Elliott LLP
Kevin Frisby, Ford Campbell Freedman
Louise Handley, Lee & Priestley LLP
Margaret Ferris, PKF (UK) LLP
Mark Fellows, Winburn Glass Norfolk
Martin Beer, Sheffield Hallam University
Paul Foot, Withers & Rogers LLP
Paul Routledge, DLA Piper
Peter Draggett, Dragon IP Stategics
Rachel Dean, Clarion Solicitors LLP
Rebecca Beecroft, DLA Piper
Rebecca McCall, Walker Morris
Reinhold Behringer, Leeds Metropolitan University
Richard Gover, Urquhart-Dykes & Lord LLP
Robert Goldstone, Walker Morris
Ryan Gracey, Lee & Priestley LLP
Scott Fawcett, PriceWaterHouse Coopers
Shaun Mullins, Baker Tilly
Simon Wormald, Deloitte
Steve Knowles, Knowles Warwick
Steve Roberts, Fripp Design Ltd
Steve Scholey, Action COACH Leeds
Steven Gash, Clough & Company LLP
Will Arnold, BTG McInnes Corporate Finance
We would like to thank all these individuals for the considerable time and efforts they have expended over the last few months and helping make this year’s event a great success.
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Article Id: 305935
Release date: 12 July 2010
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