The Cambridge Network is a commercial business networking organisation for business people and academics working in technology fields in the

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area of the UK. The businesses and organisations that make up its membership are typical of those found in the 'Cambridge Cluster' or

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. The network is inclusive and encourages cross-sector and cross-business engagement so that new areas of innovation are started. The network was founded in 1997 by Nigel Brown, David Cleevely, Fred Hallsworth,

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, Anthony Ross and

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. Chair of Cambridge Network Ltd is Dr

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, Group CEO of

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, and current board members include founder Hermann Hauser, Alex van Someren Amadeus Capital Partners, Professor

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, pro-vice-chancellor of Cambridge University, Lee Welham of

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, Marcus Johnson of Kirly Ltd, Prof Roderick Watkins of

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, Peter Taylor of TTP Group, David Cleevely, Andrew Lynn of Fluidic Analytics, Colin Manktelow of NW Brown, Caroline Rowland of Arm Holdings, Vicki Sanderson, Andy Williams

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, Ken Woodberry of Microsoft Research and former Cambridge Network CEO Claire Ruskin. Its president is the vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Professor

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. John Gourd is chief executive, appointed in September 2019 and David Mardle of

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is company secretary.

Activities

*The organisation's mission is "''We raise the game for business in Cambridge, and through that we try to raise the game for economic growth in the UK. Cambridge Network brings people together - from business and academia - to meet each other and share ideas, encouraging collaboration and partnership for shared success. ''". * Main CN Logo Blue

It has over 1,000 corporate and 300 individual members. *The Cambridge Network facilitates a number of other services, including **The Cambridge Corporate Gateway – a service dedicated to matching external organisation's technological requirement to companies in the Cambridge area. **Open meetings and lectures intended to bring together business and academic interests. **The Learning Collaboration – encouraging local companies to pool training resources. **The Recruitment Gateway – a service designed to attract and retain the best and most talented people to work in Cambridge. A number of special interest groups have arisen from Cambridge Network activities.

References

External links

Cambridge Network website
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