Summary
Mark I'Anson founded the North-East's first ( and so far only ( Nasdaq listed company. Guy Anderson meets the new chairman of Northern Enterprise and hears how he took on Silicon Valley.
Technology companies found the draw to Silicon Valley irresistible. New start-ups flocked to the California mecca in the early 1980s to trade alongside future industry giants, Microsoft and Apple.See the full content of this document
Extract
He's the Man Who Let the Sun Shine
Mark I'Anson, however, did things differently. The Cambridge graduate ( who went on to become chairman of Newcastle venture capital group Northern Enterprise Ltd ( launched Integrated Micro Products in 1982 with a revolutionary product; a "fail-proof" computer system.
His enterprise went on to swallow up a Silicon Valley computer group, become the first North-East company to list on the Nasdaq in 1994 and today turns over more than $1bn (pounds 600m). And it is based in a town not widely known as ...See the full content of this document
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