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Andrew is the Managing Director of The Working Knowledge Group, a Cambridge-based company that develops visual tools that simplify strategy generation and create insight into entrepreneurial business processes. The company operates in three primary markets including education, training and coaching.
Andrew has a long history of identifying, developing and managing innovation within corporate environments and notably created and implemented a comprehensive and international innovation management system while working for Reuters, the European media group. Working with Reuters Venture Capital, his career at the company culminated with a role as CEO of an Asian-based Internet trading corporate spin-out in Singapore which he took through initial VC funding and on to a trade sale.
As author of the recently published ' Inventuring - Why Big Companies Must Think Small' (McGraw Hill) which tackles the subject of corporate venturing from a practitioners perspective, Andrew brings with him the experience of over 200 companies that were researched for the book as well as his own extensive experience in the areas of business start-up and in the specialist area of innovation management and corporate venturing.
With a personal corporate history that includes journalism, software development, project management, marketing and strategic sales, Andrew draws on a wealth of experience in all aspects of business management gained through working internationally, predominantly in the US and UK.
Andrew is a non-executive director at Interstate, a UK-based creative agency and at Investing for Good, one of the UK's first Community Investment Companies that assists professional advisors with intelligent giving.
Andrew received both a Bachelors in Engineering and an MBA in International Business from the University of London. He teaches the Analysis & Evaluation and Strategic Marketing Decision modules of the Postgraduate Diploma for the College in Cambridge.
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