Mike Southon

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Who is Mike Southon?

Mike Southon is a British entrepreneur and author.

Mike Southon was educated at Papplewick School, Ascot and Wellington College, Crowthorne.

He subsequently attended Imperial College London to read mechanical engineering, but left after a year. 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 management economics.

Southon has started a number of companies, the most successful of which was The Instruction Set, a Unix training company that he co-founded with Peter Griffiths and Mike Banahan in 1984. The company was bought out in 1989 by Hoskyns Group.

He was involved with 17 startup companies during the 1990s, including Riversoft and Micromuse, both of which ultimately had public floatations.

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, speaking at over 100 events every year, often referencing The Beatles and Sir Richard Branson

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Nationality
  • United Kingdom
Profession
Education
  • Imperial College London

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on July 23, 2013

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