Mike Southon

Mike Southon is a weekly columnist in the FT every Saturday. He is also co-author with Chris West of best-selling business books ‘The Beermat Entrepreneur', ‘The Boardroom Entrepreneur', ‘Sales on a Beermat ‘and ‘Finance on a Beermat'. He co-founded The Instruction Set in January 1984 and five years later it had 150 employees in the UK and USA and a turnover of £7.5M. The company was sold in 1989 to Hoskyns (now Cap Gemini Ernst & Young). Mike has worked on about 17 start-ups of varying sizes, some of which on are still going. Mike is also
a visiting lecturer at Cass Business School. Mike now spends most of his time doing public speaking, around 150 events per year.

 

 

 

 

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