Peter Cowley, Cambridge, UK

STATUS:             Born September 1955, two sons (27 and 23).  Resident with partner in Cambridge.

Email: mail @ petercowley.org Mob: 07876 555 545

EDUCATION:       Hymers College, Hull:           63-73 (Maths, Phys, Chemistry and, in 2001, Law)

                              Cambridge University:         74-77

                         MA:                                   Computing and Engineering Science               

                         Open University:                  1996

                         Level 2:                             Psychology

                              ACCA:                                     2002

                         Diploma in Financial Management (DipFM)

Current commercial positions

2011-date                               Investment Director, Martlet – Marshall Corporate Angel Investing

2010-date                               Director and investor, Plumis Limited - Dyson award winning mist system, for suppressing domestic fires

2010-date                               Mentor, Understanding Finance for Business - East of England finance programme

2010-date                               Chair, Director and shareholder, Eluceda Limited - biotech IP company

2007-date                               Director and 50% shareholder, ZedCam Limited – surveillance products

2002-date                               Owner, Starfish Letting – property portfolio

2000-date                               Director and owner, Starfish Developments Limited – Five 3-storey town houses built.  Many renovations including Grade 2* listed cottage.  

                                             £1.6M project in Cambridge.  NHBC registered. 

1998-date                               Principal, Starfish – project, sales, marketing and technical consultancy.  Project management in NFP, IT and healthcare market sectors.

1984-date                               Director and owner, Camdata Limited.  Developer and manufacturer of rugged fixed and hand-held peripherals, computers and interfaces. 

                                             54,000+ products shipped. Bought Microscribe Ltd in 2003. Formed RFIDCAM in 2007. Introduced MeLock in 2010.

Current voluntary non-executive positions

Chair of Trustee Board, Cambridge Centre for Sixth-form Studies – Independent sixth-form college

Board member of the Cambridge Angels - equity investment and guidance for startups and small businesses

Trustee Board (Chair from 2006-2011), Focus12 – East Anglian drug/alcohol rehabilitation service

Director, Cambridge Computer Laboratory Ring – a graduate society (chair of careers/mentoring committee)

Director, Cambridge Contract Bridge Centre

Freeman, Information Technologists’ Company (and the City of London)

Previous commercial positions

2009-2011                              Consultant and mentor, Globosense Limited - sensing and making sense of energy data

2008-2009                                   Non-executive director and shareholder, Verieda Limited – electronic design tools

2007-2009                              Director and shareholder, Ept Computing Limited – sold at a 15X multiple on investment

2006-2008                              Sales & marketing director, Equivital – ambulatory physiology monitoring products

2005-2008                              Partner, Starbridge – home and garden improvements in/around Cambridge

2002-2006                                    Partner, Parkside Associates – property development joint venture

1981-1984                              Founder, Technical and International Marketing Manager of Gercom GmbH (Bavaria)

1980-1981                                    Software Development Manager of Ulbrich Automation GmbH (Bavaria)

1977-1980                                    Consultant within the Industry Group of Logica plc

Previous voluntary positions                                                                          

Co-Chair, Area Committee of Central England of Citizens Advice (CAB) (2008-2009)

Volunteer, British Red Cross – providing strategic consultancy (2009-2010)

Chair, East Region Committee of Citizens Advice (CAB) (2006-2008)

Chair (previously Treasurer), South Kesteven Citizens Advice Bureaux (1998-2006)

Director and Treasurer, Bedford and District Citizens Advice Bureau (2008-2010)

Director and Trustee, Cambridge and District Citizens Advice Bureau (operations, IT and property committees) (2004-2008)

Vice Chair, Stamford YMCA (2000-2004)

Interests

Duplicate contract bridge (2 or 3 times a week); squash/badminton/racket ball (2 or 3 times a week); skiing; fell-walking (climbed Kilimanjaro; Mount Kinabalu in Borneo); SCUBA diving; cinema. Speak German.

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