London Business School: Entrepreneurial Leadership Speaker Series with Jos White

London Business School's Entrepreneurial Leadership Speakers seminar is a monthly speaker series that brings leaders from the European technology and venture capital community to campus to share their insights and stories behind high growth businesses.

The series is open to both London Business School students and aspiring entrepreneurs.

Details

* Reception at 6.30pm
* Seminar at 7pm
* Drinks and networking at 8pm

Jos White
General Partner, Notion Capital and Founder, MessageLabs
Venture capitalist

Jos is a founding partner at Notion Capital, a venture fund and advisory business that focuses on early to mid-stage growth businesses in the Internet based services sector. Before founding Notion, Jos has co-founded three businesses helping to grow them all into market leaders each with revenues in excess of $100M.

In 1993 Jos co-founded RBR Networks, an IT distributor that specialised in Cisco. By 1998 RBR had become Cisco's largest distributor in Europe, with revenues in excess of $160M, and was acquired by Datatec in the same year.

At the same time, in 1995, Jos and Ben founded Star Internet as one of the UK’s first ISPs. Star is now well established as one of the UK's largest ISPs and has evolved into a more broad-based communications company.

In 2000 Jos and Ben co-founded MessageLabs, that became the market leader for messaging and web security services and a company at the forefront of the exploding Software as a Service (“SaaS”) industry. Towards the end of 2008 MessageLabs was acquired by Symantec for approximately $700M.

 

Location

London Business School

Contact Information

lcaffarri.mba2010@london.edu