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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
New Business Challenge 2007: entrants
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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
Making fuel cell systems work
Conserving biodiversity while offsetting carbon
emissions
© Voller Energy Group PLC 2007 28www.voller.com
Making fuel cell systems work
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
© Voller Energy Group PLC 2007 29www.voller.com
Making fuel cell systems work
PC Growth dramatic
1980 1990 2000 2010
Personal Computers
1981 : Nobody predicted the true killer app – email and internet
Growth happened first in US
© Voller Energy Group PLC 2007 30www.voller.com
Making fuel cell systems work
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
© Voller Energy Group PLC 2007 31www.voller.com
Making fuel cell systems work
• 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
© Voller Energy Group PLC 2007 32www.voller.com
Making fuel cell systems work
Fuel cells – massive growth potential
1980 1990 2000 2010 2020
Fuel cells
2006 : What is the killer app ?
Where will growth happen first ?
© Voller Energy Group PLC 2007 33www.voller.com
Making fuel cell systems work
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
Runners-Up, New Business Challenge 2007
Dynamic Therapeutics Ltd
Mario IobbiAndrew Selves
Runners-Up, New Business Challenge 2007
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)