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SUMMARY:Cambridge Product Management Network: "Product Management – who 
 cares?! A VC speaks" - Alex van Someren (Amadeus Capital)
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CONTACT:Cambridge Product Management Network
DESCRIPTION:Who needs product managers anyway? Don’t they just stifle in
 novation? Don’t they get in the way of building stuff? \n\nHaving co-fou
 nded nCipher\, a successful Cambridge IT company\, and now an active entre
 preneur and one of the team at Amadeus Capital\, "Alex van Someren":http:/
 /www.amadeuscapital.com/team/alex.php has a view. Now’s your chance to h
 ear it. \n\nCost to attend: Free\n\nMore information on "Cambridge Product
  Management Website":http://product-management.ning.com/events/june-keynot
 e-product\n\nRed Gate Software has kindly offered to host this event\, and
  provide a light buffet ahead of Alex’s presentation. If you want to att
 end this event\, you *must* sign up through the CPM network. Numbers are l
 imited\, so first come first served. \n\nAlex is a General Partner in the 
 Seed Fund at Amadeus Capital in Cambridge\, UK. \n\nAlex has worked in the
  technology industry since the 1980s. He co-founded ANT Ltd in 1990 to pro
 duce networking products\, including Web Browser software licensed to the 
 Oracle Corporation. ANT plc was listed on the London AIM market (AIM:ANTP)
  in 2005. \n\nIn 1996 he co-founded nCipher to develop internet security p
 roducts using advanced cryptography. The company became a world leader in 
 IT security\, counting major banks\, finance companies and governments amo
 ng its customers. As CEO at nCipher he raised a total of £14m ($25m) in v
 enture capital funding before he led the company to an IPO on the London S
 tock Exchange in 2000 (LSE:NCH) at a £350m valuation. nCipher plc was sol
 d to Thales SA in 2008. \n\nAlex lives in Cambridge\, UK and is married wi
 th three children. He was appointed an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Ju
 dge Business School\, University of Cambridge in 2005.
LOCATION:Red Gate Software\, Newnham House\, Cambridge Business Park\, Cam
 bridge CB4 0WZ
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