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
Guy Mallison, 26, is the commercial director of Rools.com, the e-commerce website aimed at teenagers co-founded with colleague Adam Hamdy. Having left university without knowing what he wanted to do Mallison tells us how he became a dotcom entrepreneur. He and Handy are charting the company’s progress in a weekly column in the Guardian newspaper
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
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
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
Henry Martinez is responsible for all Discovery Networks’ cable channels in Latin America and Iberia. He was born in Cuba and grew up in Colombia and Brazil. He majored in communications at Los Angeles’ Pepperdine University, before going on to do an MBA at the University of Miami in Florida
Carlton Television chief executive Clive Jones, 51, started out in the TV industry 25 years ago. He worked for ITV companies Yorkshire Television, TVAM and TVS before arriving at Carlton. The company has received government approval for its proposed £8 billion merger with rival media firm United News & Media. Jones reflects on how UK
David Bell is media giant Pearson plc’s director for people and chairman of the Financial Times. He tells us that the best journalists are inquisitive, individualistic and therefore ‘somewhat irritating’. Bell talks about his own career both as a writer and a recruiter and gives tips on how to land a job at Pearson
Richard Tait is editor in chief of ITN, the London-based company that produces news programmes for broadcasters including ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. ITN also provides radio and online news services, operates pan-European 24-hour news channel EuroNews and is gearing up to launch its own UK TV rolling news service. Tait came relatively late
Abigail Chisman has been promoted from editor of Vogue Online, to editor of publishing company Conde Nast’s entire online operations. Cambridge University graduate Chisman, a self-confessed, champagne-quaffing socialite, studied fashion journalism before landing her first job at Conde Nast. We asked her about her new job and what the future holds
Michael Prescott is political editor of The Sunday Times where he has been a journalist for more than ten years. Educated at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford University, he then went on to do a degree in journalism at the Center for Journalism Studies, Cardiff University. He lives in Islington, with his wife Rachel Storm –
Gerard Baker is the Financial Times‘ bureau chief in Washington, where he lives with his wife and three daughters in American University Park. The combination of his exhaustive research and lucid style has given him an enviable reputation as an economic expert on both sides of the Atlantic. We caught up with him in the
Jane Frost, is the BBC’s controller, corporate marketing and was behind the much-lauded corporate promo Perfect Day. Jane says she believes in the BBC so much she wants to ‘grab people and tell them about it’. Her advice to graduates interested in a career in marketing is that if you like people there isn’t a
Ruth Whippman, 26, has worked for the News and Current Affairs department at the BBC as a broadcast journalist for the last two and a half years, and is about to start a new job as an assistant producer on Back to the Floor. She talks to us about the delights of freelancing, and the
Brad Rees enjoys working his socks off. Rees, the former new media editor for Express Newspapers, has just swapped one hectic dotcom job for another. He has recently been appointed senior producer at Sports.com after spending seven months at rival online outlet Sportal. He describes the change as moving from ‘hard work’ to ‘seriously hard
Philippa Thomas, 34, works as Washington correspondent for the BBC. She is married to State Department reporter Richard Lister. In her spare time the pair can be found ‘kayaking in Alaska, driving sled dogs over frozen lakes on the Canadian border, and falling down quite a lot of ski slopes.’ She says life as a
Sally Muggeridge is management development director for media giant Pearson plc, which own well-known brands, including Penguin books and the Financial Times. She is based at Pearson’s London headquarters, but makes regular visits to the US where the majority of the group’s 22,000 employees work
Matt Dickinson is best known for his controversial interview with Glenn Hoddle that led to the England football manager’s sacking from the international scene. Dickinson, a Cambridge graduate, has worked at the Times for the past two years and is the newspaper’s chief football correspondent. We asked him for a few tips on journalistic success
Roxanne McMeekin, 24, is a reporter for financial magazine FT Mandate. She started as an editorial assistant at Reed Elsevier, publisher of science journals, before moving to The Financial Times business division
Rob Corney, 22, works as a graduate management trainee at Carlton Television.
