Celebrating our first anniversary, Creative Networks presents:

Ajaz Ahmed, is the Founder of Freeserve, the UK™s largest Internet Service Provider (ISP) now known as Orange. His eureka moment came when he bought a PC at PC World in Leeds and nobody in the store could tell him how to get onto the Internet. After much persuasion by him, Dixons launched Freeserve in September 1998 and became the UK™s largest ISP in just three short months. It floated just nine months later at a market cap of £1.5bn and entered the FT 100 soon after, in March 2000 it had a market cap of £9bn. Ajaz was one of the three founding executives to launch the business, seeing it through flotation and the £1.6bn sale to Wanadoo.

Ajaz held the position of Business Development Director until April 2001 when he left the company to pursue a variety of business interests. He now sits a number of boards and has a number of investments which he is actively involved in and he also sits on the Governing Council at the University of Huddersfield.

A splendidly insightful and entertaining speaker, Ajaz will let us know about, œLessons Learned.

Thursday 30th April 2009 starting at 6pm
Leeds College of Art
Blenheim Walk, Leeds LS2 9AQ

This event is free to creative, digital and cultural industry professionals. If you would like to join us, please contact Creative Networks on 01422 399444 or email Bridget March at bridgetm@leeds-art.ac.uk.