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NEDs, SIDs, Chairs, and CEOs at TMT sector organisations publicly listed in the UK are warmly invited to join us for this private ‘Chatham House Rule’ discussion and networking opportunity over dinner. Attendance is complimentary, courtesy [...]
How do ambitious executives steadily acquire the skills and experience to best prepare and position themselves for board roles? Daniel Osmer, Spectrum’s Managing Partner, was pleased to run a session with INSEAD’s Career Development Centre on [...]
Leaders’ behaviour, and the signals they send, is more important than simply communicating a strategy. Why is this? How do boards monitor the tone they are setting? And how do leaders ensure they provide ethical leadership?
For many high-growth enterprises, there’s nowhere better to start and grow than the UK, and nowhere better to expand and raise later-stage funding than the United States. The US offers the promise of massive commercial opportunities [...]
The Economic Crime & Corporate Transparency Act represents significant new legislation in the UK. What are the key implications for boards?
Family Offices are typically less well understood than private equity and venture capital. How do family offices view our sector, and why should we embrace the family office approach?
CEOs and entrepreneurs tend to focus 100% on their business, and their own needs often come a distant second. But, it's a good idea to pre-plan for the psychological and financial transformation that a positive exit entails.
A practical guide to successfully building a board portfolio career with innovative, investor-backed technology companies.
Cyber security is a relatively new, fast evolving, and substantial threat to organisations - and boards need to raise their game in cybersecurity oversight, but non-executives need more support to do that.
Spectrum’s 7th eCommerce Leadership Dinner took place on 25th April in London in association with Ardent Advisors, the corporate finance firm. The roundtable dinner discussion began by examining the impending EU Referendum. The most notable points [...]
What Black Friday means for you… Spectrum’s 6th eCommerce Leadership Dinner took place on 23rd November in London in association with Ardent Advisors, the corporate finance firm. Perhaps it was the fast-approaching festive season that made [...]
Spectrum’s 5th eCommerce Leadership Dinner took place on 28 September in London in association with Ardent Advisors, the corporate finance firm. The discussion began by considering the 2015 European Commission’s Consumer ScoreBoard which suggests that cross-border eCommerce [...]
Spectrum’s 4th eCommerce Leadership Dinner took place on 22 June in London in association with Ardent Advisors, the corporate finance firm. As usual, the debate was wide-ranging, this time with the customer experience, and, in particular, the role [...]
Goldman Sachs has described the Internet of Things (IoT) as the next technology mega trend, representing the 3rd wave of the internet. Samsung’s CEO has said that all of its products would be connected to the [...]
Spectrum’s 3rd eCommerce Leadership Dinner took place on 27 April in London in association with Ardent Advisors, the corporate finance firm. Unlike previous debates, this dinner focussed deeply on one topic: the role of content in eCommerce. The [...]
Following the positive feedback received after our inaugural eCommerce Leadership Dinner held in October last year, Thursday 22 January 2015 marked our second dinner debate. Held at The Lansdowne Club in London and co-hosted as before with [...]
Tuesday 14 October 2014 marked Spectrum’s first eCommerce Leadership Dinner hosted in partnership with corporate finance firm Ardent Advisors. An exclusive mix of CEOs, chairmen and investors from the European eCommerce community made for an animated, round [...]
Becoming a Non-Executive Director (NED) is considered a rite of passage by many executives, and yet, despite the increasing focus on corporate governance and board effectiveness, what makes an effective NED is still little understood. The [...]
“One of the things I did throughout the history of the company was to lead by example with regard to cost control. On the other hand, I believed that we should never scrimp on the hiring we did. We were fortunate to find an effective headhunter, and that money was well spent. When we found our star talent, we would hire them at any cost because lesser people would end up costing more in the long run.”
Jon Craton, Co-Founder & CEO, Cramer (now Amdocs)
