Mike Southon is a British entrepreneur. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located An entrepreneur is a person who has possession over a company enterprise, or Venture, and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome
Mike Southon was educated at Papplewick School, Ascot (where he was a contemporary of Richard Curtis) and Wellington College, Crowthorne (where in 1967 he met Chris West, who was to become his co-author). For the former state representative from Washington State see Richard Curtis (politician Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis, CBE (born Wellington College, the national monument to the Duke of Wellington, is an English Co-educational public school located in the Berkshire village Crowthorne is also a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa Crowthorne is a small Village and Civil Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. Chris West (born 1954) is a British writer Chris West was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire and at the London School of He subsequently attended Imperial College London to read mechanical engineering, but left after a year. Imperial College London (officially The Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine as given in its Royal Charter It is one of only three universities to have reached Mechanical Engineering is an Engineering discipline that involves the application of principles of physics for analysis Design, Manufacturing He worked at Tate & Lyle Research in Reading for a while and then went on to the University of Bradford to read chemical engineering and economics. Tate & Lyle PLC ( is a UK -based multinational agri-processor listed on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol TATE. Reading (ˈrɛdɪŋ as Redding) is a town in England, located at the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet, midway between The University of Bradford (est 1966 is a University in Bradford, West Yorkshire in the United Kingdom. Chemical engineering is the branch of Engineering that deals with the application of Physical science (e Economics is the social science that studies the production distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
Southon has started a number of companies, the most successful of which was The Instruction Set, a Unix training company that was bought out in 1989 by Hoskyns (now Cap Gemini Ernst & Young). Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX, sometimes also written as Unix with Small caps) is a computer Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) Capgemini ( is a major French company, one of the world's largest Information technology, Management consulting, Outsourcing Capgemini ( is a major French company, one of the world's largest Information technology, Management consulting, Outsourcing
More recently, he has written books aimed at entrepreneurs with Chris West, the first of which was The Beermat Entrepreneur. He gives presentations on entrepreneurship and sales and writes columns for the Daily Telegraph, featuring interviews with well-known business people, and the Financial Times [1]. For "The Daily Telegraph" in Australia see The Daily Telegraph (Australia. The Financial Times ( FT) is a British international business Newspaper.
Mike's alter ego is Mike Fab-Gere, a 60s and 70s rock star. The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He was also previously the front man and singer for the Oxcentrics jazz band in Oxford, in which Chris West also played on drums. The Oxcentrics were a Dixieland Jazz band founded in 1975 at Oxford University. Oxford is currently bidding for the 2010 Wikimania Conference Oxford () is a city, and the County town of Oxfordshire,