Interviews – Telecoms – Matthew Lawson
What’s your official title? Head of the Radical Multimedia Lab, BT. What do you do all day? I lead a small research lab looking at virtual reality and multimedia graphics.
Interviews – Telecoms – Vicki Field
Vicki Field, 23, is a graduate human resources (HR) officer on a two-year graduate training scheme with Vodafone AirTouch. She joined the company in October 1998 after graduating from Durham University, where she studied combined social sciences. Vodafone employs 100 HR professionals across the UK
Interviews – Telecoms – Anthony Hedger
Anthony Hedger, 22, is a graduate finance trainee with Vodafone Airtouch – the world’s largest mobile telecoms company. He says he gets a buzz from the commercial side of the business – looking for areas where the business can develop and grow. He told us how figures can be fun
Interviews – Telecoms – Apostolos Sarantidis
Apostolos Sarantidis, 26, is a graduate trainee engineer with Vodafone AirTouch. He works in the radio development department – one of six departments within the company’s engineering wing. He told us what attracted him to a career in telecoms
Interviews – Telecoms – Andy Hazel
Andy Hazell, 24, was taken on as a marketing graduate trainee by Vodafone in September 1999. Over the next two years he will be working across four different divisions to get an overview of the whole marketing process
Interviews – Telecoms – Carol Armstrong
Carol Armstrong, 24, graduated in 1999 with an MSc in Natural Sciences. As a result of a twelve-week work placement in the summer of 1998, she was offered a job at BT when she graduated
Interviews – Technology – Benjamin Cohen
Benjamin Cohen set up the community website soJewish.com when he was just 15 and confined to his bed with ME – chronic fatigue syndrome – with nothing but the Internet for company. Benjamin is now 18 with an estimated paper wealth of £5m
Interviews – Technology – Julie Meyer
Julie Meyer rose to stardom as a founder of First Tuesday and quickly became known as the First Lady of the internet. We meet the woman who calls herself ‘a deep pan-European’ and talk to her about her company, Ariadne Capital, and the careers in the start-up economy
Interviews – Technology – Steve Bennetts
Steve Bennetts has recently joined Content Technologies, the e-content management and security company, as chief financial officer. Bennetts qualified as a chartered accountant with Ernst & Young, but his most recent position was at Amazon.com where he was European finance director. He lives in the Thames valley with his wife and two children.
Interviews – Technology – Thomas Fitch
Thomas Fitch, 29, quit his job as a highly successful trader for US banking group Chase Manhattan to pursue a career in e-commerce. He set up his own online video courier service Reelsonwheels.com two years ago. Fitch admits it is sometimes tough going, but remains positive he can attract investors to the site. We asked him
Interviews – Technology – Jennifer Mowat
The general manager of eBay UK, Jennifer Mowat was no internet anorak. She tells us how easy it is to wise up to what’s going on in the dotcom industry and how to make the most out of e-business
Interviews – Technology – Dru Edmonstone
Dru Edmonstone is the embodiment of the Internet dream: a 28-year old with a big equity stake in one of Europe’s biggest e-success stories. Durlacher, which he joined just after its relaunch in 1996, is now Europe’s leading Internet investment bank, having invested in start-ups like Demon Internet, 365 Corporation and Autonomy. We asked Edmonstone how
Interviews – Technology – Sonia Lo
Sonia Lo is the founder and chief executive of eZoka, the website providing business services to SMEs. Sonia graduated from university at 19, speaks seven languages and has a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and has even given Lord Hollick a scare. She shares her wisdom on the future for ecommerce
Interviews – Technology – Martin Frost
Martin Frost, 49, is the non-executive chairman of Infobank, a business to business e-commerce software venture. He moved over from drinks and entertainment giant Seagram full-time in June 1999, after a long and successful career in the old economy, beginning as a graduate trainee for Unilever. He lives on Putney Heath in London with his
Interviews – Technology – Mark Wood
Mark Wood, the youngest editor-in-chief in Reuters’ history, has succumbed to the lure of the Internet by moving to the company’s Greenhouse Fund. Wood, 48, is in charge of developing Reuters’ strategic partnerships with other content providers, which the fund can then invest in. He is now one of the key players in Internet investment.
Interviews – Technology – Azim Premji
Azim Premji, chairman of Indian software company Wipro, is the world’s third richest man after Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Wal-Mart’s Robson Walton. His personal fortune of $54.7bn dwarfs that of the Sultan of Brunei at $29.3bn. Justpeople asked him for the secrets of his success
Interviews – Technology – Julie Meyer
Julie Meyer rose to stardom as a founder of First Tuesday and quickly became known as the First Lady of the internet. We meet the woman who calls herself ‘a deep pan-European’ and talk to her about her company, Ariadne Capital, and the careers in the start-up economy
Interviews – Technology – Steve Bennetts
Steve Bennetts has recently joined Content Technologies, the e-content management and security company, as chief financial officer. Bennetts qualified as a chartered accountant with Ernst & Young, but his most recent position was at Amazon.com where he was European finance director. He lives in the Thames valley with his wife and two children.
Interviews – Technology – Thomas Fitch
Thomas Fitch, 29, quit his job as a highly successful trader for US banking group Chase Manhattan to pursue a career in e-commerce. He set up his own online video courier service Reelsonwheels.com two years ago. Fitch admits it is sometimes tough going, but remains positive he can attract investors to the site. We asked him
Interviews – Technology – Mark Zaleski
Mark Zaleski, 37, is senior vice-president of area operations for US online grocery company Webvan. The firm, which has a net income of more than $231m, is currently spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a national delivery infra-structure with the aim of becoming the dominant door-to-door retailer in America. Zaleski lives in the