| Event Name: | Mike Harris - Creator of Three Billion Pound Plus Brands |
| Description: | Once, Twice... Three Times!...
Mike Harris is one of the UKs most successful entrepreneurs and innovators. The co-founder of iconic financial services consumer brand Firstdirect and Egg, Mike also played a major role in transforming telecommunications.
In between creating two £B+ businesses from start-up, Mike Harris was the chief executive of Mercury Communications, then the main competitor to BT, where he created an iconic brand and built a multi-billion consumer business. He was also chairman of mobile phone company Mercury One to One ... which was later bought by T-mobile for $10bn.
Mikes consistent ability to impact mass markets has made him an industry legend, revered entrepreneur, and one of the most influential business people in the UK.
Watch This Space ...
He is currently chairman and co-founder of digital identity experts Garlik – a company which was created in 2005 in order to give individuals and their families more power over the way their information is used in the digital world. It has the inventor of the World Wide Web – Tim Berners-Lee – on its advisory board.
And In His Spare Time ...
Mike is also chairman of innovation at the Royal Bank of Scotland and is a guest speaker at mid-career MBA courses at the Sloan business School MIT.
Mike Harris has recently completed his book Find Your Lightbulb - How to Make Millions From Apparently Impossible Ideas and Triumphant Events has been able to secure the opportunity to have Mike share his best ideas live.
At this event you will learn:
How to get started in the most powerful way
How to find hundreds of successful ideas
Discover how to deal with the inevitable constructive criticisms
Create the most powerful yet often neglected assets possible for your business
Discover one fundamental principle which characterises all successful leaders
Put all this together in a step by step approach to success.
This event is about how to make millions from apparently impossible ideas.
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| Type of Event: | Entrepreneurs Events - Venture Capital |
| Event Agenda: | 6:15pm Reg
7:00pm Start
9:00pm End
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| Event Location: | Hilton London Metropole Hotel |
| Event City: | London |
| Type of Venue: | Hotel |
| Station/Stop: | Edgware Road station |
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| Event Start Date | 14-Jul-08 |