Alan Hart
Entrepreneur with background in technology / product innovation consulting and recent MBA. Experience includes 5 years in sales and some venturing.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Skills: | Business, English, Entrepreneurship, French, Languages, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Spanish |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | University of Cambridge |
FEATURED STARTUP
Plumis Ltd
Plumis Ltd
Plumis Ltd are commercialising Automist, an award winning fire protection appliance that fills the gap between fire extinguishers and traditional sprinkler systems. Automist targets at-risk rooms such as the kitchen, where most fires start.
- Startup type: Company
- Status: Active
- Stage: Growth
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Plumis and Spring3Design |
| Position: | Director |
| Time period: | May 2009 - Present |
| Employer: | Snowbone |
| Position: | Consultant entrepreneur |
| Time period: | December 2008 - May 2009 |
| Description: | A startup business owned by designer/inventor Nick Rawcliffe to bring an
award-winning snow-descent product to market. Assisted with commercialisation process. |
| Employer: | Utinerary |
| Position: | Inventor and CEO |
| Time period: | September 2008 - May 2009 |
| Description: | A startup project to create a better booking experience for business travellers
in small-to-medium sized firms. Based on a first-prize winning business plan (see below), the project has since addressed challenging questions of technical/commercial feasibility and partnering |
| Employer: | Sagentia Ltd. |
| Position: | Vice President |
| Time period: | January 1996 - December 2007 |
| Description: | Five years of hands-on science and technology problem-solving and
inventing experience in a consultancy environment; projects included inventing improved surface cleaners and better handheld electronic games. Work led to products being successfully commercialised by clients. Named inventor on three patents underpinning Sagentia spin-out, Intrasonics Ltd. • Five years' full-time business development and solution selling, managing relationships with multibillion dollar companies, including forty-six trips to the US and over seven months based in Boston • Sector Leader: Consumer Products from 2003 to 2007; determined sales strategy, managing sales resources and accountable for £2 million target • Management experience, both as line manager of product innovation skill group for two years and as project manager for many innovation projects • Member of peer review board for internal venture projects, including Autosheath anti-needle stick technology, now being commercialised, and CMR Fuel Cells, now an award-winning AIM listed company • Core team member on business-wide management consulting projects for multibillion dollar FMCG firms including: technology roadmapping for S C Johnson, and innovation audit for Pepsico International |
| Employer: | Alcatel |
| Position: | Intern |
| Time period: | January 1990 - December 1997 |
| Description: |
Internship, developing test systems for ISDN switch • |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of Cambridge |
| Time period: | 1991 - 1996 |
| Degree: | Physics (Microelectronics Research Centre), PhD |
| University: | University of Cambridge |
| Time period: | 1987 - 1990 |
| Degree: | Hons Natural Sciences (Physics, MA |
INFORMATION
| Awards: | 1st Prize and Distinction Grade, IC MBA Business Plan Competition, 2008
Inventor and CEO: Utinerary, novel online travel booking service • 1st Prize, New Business Challenge (IC-wide business plan competition) CEO of TapSprinkler team: fire suppression system for social housing • 2nd Prize, New Business Challenge (second entry to the same competition) Three-person team commercialising a novel RCA cycle carrier design • 1st Prize and Distinction Grade, Commercial Feasibility Project: Team exercise evaluating commercial potential of novel wheel design Imperial College Foundation Scholarship 2007-8 |
Alan's Startups (1)
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Plumis Ltd
Plumis Ltd are commercialising Automist, an award winning fire protection appliance that fills the gap between fire extinguishers and traditional sprinkler systems. Automist targets at-risk rooms such as the kitchen, where most fires start.
Alan's Contacts (4)
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William Makant
Mechanical Engineering graduate from Escola Politecnica USP, with MBA from Imperial College Business School. Currently working as Director at Plumis Ltd and Spring3Design Ltd.
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Yusuf Muhammad
Industrial Designer and Engineer, MA (RCA) MSc graduate from the Royal College of Art / Imperial College London and MEng graduate from Nottingham University
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Tom Adeyoola
CEO & Founder of Metail Limited.
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