Ben White's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Ben is one of the best known technology entrepreneurs in the UK having co-founded four successful businesses – RBR Networks, Star Internet, MessageLabs and Notion Capital. He was recognised by the European Technology Forum's UK Technology Innovation & Growth Awards as 'Technology Entrepreneur of the Year' for 2005 and, in the same year, was ranked in the top ten of Management Today's list of the UK's top 100 entrepreneurs. Ben is a founding partner at Notion and, together with his general fund responsibilities, focuses on strategy, product and technology within portfolio companies. He is the Notion Capital representative on the board of Star Technology Services Limited. In 1993 Ben co-founded RBR Networks, an IT distributor specialising in Cisco. By 1998 RBR had become Cisco’s largest distributor in Europe and, towards the end of that year, was acquired by Datatec for approx $70M. At the same time Ben and his brother Jos founded Star Internet in 1995 as one of the UK's first ISPs. Ben served as Star's CEO from 1995 to 2000 and 2006 to 2008, establishing the company as one of the UK's largest ISPs and, in his second term, driving its evolution towards a more broad-based communications company as it takes advantage of the convergence between voice, data and Internet. Ben led a management buy-out of the company in 2007. In 2000 Ben and Jos founded MessageLabs to scale up the anti-virus technology developed within Star. Ben served as the CEO until 2006 where he built the company into a global market leader in messaging security and a true pioneer in the exploding Software as a Service (SaaS) industry. Towards the end of 2008 MessageLabs was acquired by Symantec for approx $700M, marking the second largest transaction for a private company in the history of the IT security industry. Upon completion of the acquisition Ben stepped down from the MessageLabs board to devote his time to Notion Capital and other interests.Partner @ Ben is a founding partner at Notion and, together with his general fund responsibilities, focuses on strategy, product and technology within portfolio companies. He is the Notion Capital representative on the board of Star Technology Services Limited. Ben is one of the best known technology entrepreneurs in the UK and has co-founded three businesses helping to grow them all into market leaders each with revenues in excess of $100M. Notion Capital is a venture fund and advisory business that focuses on early to mid-stage growth businesses in the Internet based services sector. We create value by helping companies to accelerate their growth through financial injection combined with strategic and operational participation. From May 2009 to Present (6 years 8 months) Founder, now Non-Executive Director @ Whilst running RBR Networks, Ben and his brother Jos founded Star Internet in 1995 as one of the UK's first ISPs. Ben served as Star's CEO from 1995 to 2000 and 2006 to 2008, establishing the company as one of the UK's largest ISPs and, in his second term, driving its evolution towards a more broad-based communications company as it takes advantage of the convergence between voice, data and Internet. Ben led a management buy-out of the company in 2007 and in November 2008 appointed Rick Hudson as its new CEO. From January 1996 to December 2012 (17 years) CSO @ Ben stepped down as CEO of MessageLabs in 2006 however remained on the board as CSO until the acquisition by Symantec. From February 2006 to November 2008 (2 years 10 months) Founder, CEO @ In 2000 Ben and Jos founded MessageLabs to scale up the anti-virus technology developed within Star. Ben served as the CEO until 2006 where he built the company into a global market leader in messaging security and a true pioneer in the exploding Software as a Service (“SaaS”) industry. Towards the end of 2008 MessageLabs was acquired by Symantec for approximately $700M, marking the second largest transaction for a private company in the history of the IT security industry. Upon completion of the acquisition Ben stepped down from the MesageLabs board to devote his time to Notion Capital and a range of other interests. From February 1999 to February 2006 (7 years 1 month) Co-founder @ In 1993 Ben co-founded RBR Networks, an IT distributor that specialised in Cisco. By 1998 RBR had become Cisco’s largest distributor in Europe, with revenues in excess of $160M, and towards the end of that year was acquired by Datatec leading to significant wealth creation for its founders. From June 1993 to October 1998 (5 years 5 months) General @ Stowe School From 1983 to 1987 Ben White is skilled in: SaaS, Security, Cloud Computing, Investments, Strategy, Mergers, Managed Services, Enterprise Software, Cisco Technologies, Start-ups, Solution Selling, Data Center, Go-to-market Strategy, Network Security, PaaS