Adam Hildreth
Encyclopedia
Adam Hildreth setup his first company, Dubit Limited when he was 14. http://www.dubitlimited.com Dubit Limited went onto become one of the biggest teenage websites in the UK and now markets itself as a 'Youth Marketing Agency', advising major brands on how to market their products to young people.
Hildreth's latest venture is http://www.crispthinking.com Crisp Thinking, which develops online child protection technology. The company claims to work closely with both Internet Service Providers and child protection organisations to develop solutions that protect children and teenagers from 'online grooming'.
He was reportedly worth £2m in the 2004 UK top 20 richest teens list and the current (2008) Sunday Times Rich List
ranks Hildreth as 23rd in the 100 richest young people in the UK based on a valuation of £25m.
In a study of British Millionaires of the Future Adam was predicted to be worth £40m by the year 2020.
Hildreth was named the CBI
's Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the end of 2006, which was awarded to him by Duncan Bannatyne and Peter Jones from BBC's Dragons' Den
programme.
In 2003, he was convicted of drunk-driving http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/3232127.stm.
In 2003 he won an Achievement in Information Technology at the Yorkshire Young Achievers Awards
In 2005 he started Crisp Thinking, which develops child protection technology for Internet Service Providers.
In 2006 he won the CBI's Young Entrepreneur of the Year accolade at the 2006 Growing Business Awards for his development of Crisp Thinking and its products. He was presented the award at a ceremony compared by Rt Hon. William Hague
MP.
In 2010 he was a Regional Winner for Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year UK.
, The Big Breakfast
, BBC News 24
and BBC1's Beat the Boss
.
Hildreth's latest venture is http://www.crispthinking.com Crisp Thinking, which develops online child protection technology. The company claims to work closely with both Internet Service Providers and child protection organisations to develop solutions that protect children and teenagers from 'online grooming'.
He was reportedly worth £2m in the 2004 UK top 20 richest teens list and the current (2008) Sunday Times Rich List
Sunday Times Rich List
The Sunday Times Rich List is a list of the 1,000 wealthiest people or families in the United Kingdom, updated annually in April and published as a magazine supplement by British national Sunday newspaper The Sunday Times since 1989...
ranks Hildreth as 23rd in the 100 richest young people in the UK based on a valuation of £25m.
In a study of British Millionaires of the Future Adam was predicted to be worth £40m by the year 2020.
Hildreth was named the CBI
Confederation of British Industry
The Confederation of British Industry is a British not for profit organisation incorporated by Royal charter which promotes the interests of its members, some 200,000 British businesses, a figure which includes some 80% of FTSE 100 companies and around 50% of FTSE 350 companies.-Role:The CBI works...
's Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the end of 2006, which was awarded to him by Duncan Bannatyne and Peter Jones from BBC's Dragons' Den
Dragons' Den
Dragons' Den is a series of reality television programmes featuring entrepreneurs pitching their business ideas in order to secure investment finance from a panel of venture capitalists. The show originated in Japan as "Manē no Tora"...
programme.
Life and career
In 1999 he founded Dubit with 7 friends, making the Guinness Book of Records for being the youngest group of directors in the UK.In 2003, he was convicted of drunk-driving http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/3232127.stm.
In 2003 he won an Achievement in Information Technology at the Yorkshire Young Achievers Awards
In 2005 he started Crisp Thinking, which develops child protection technology for Internet Service Providers.
In 2006 he won the CBI's Young Entrepreneur of the Year accolade at the 2006 Growing Business Awards for his development of Crisp Thinking and its products. He was presented the award at a ceremony compared by Rt Hon. William Hague
William Hague
William Jefferson Hague is the British Foreign Secretary and First Secretary of State. He served as Leader of the Conservative Party from June 1997 to September 2001...
MP.
In 2010 he was a Regional Winner for Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year UK.
Awards and achievements
- CBI's Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2006
- Yorkshire Young Achievers Award
- Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year
Television, film, and print
He has been on a number of television shows including BBC2's Working LunchWorking Lunch
Working Lunch was a television programme broadcast on BBC Two which covered business, personal finance and consumer news between 1994 and 2010. The programme was first aired on 19 September 1994. It had a quirky, relaxed style, especially when compared to other BBC business shows such as World...
, The Big Breakfast
The Big Breakfast
The Big Breakfast was a British light entertainment television show shown on Channel 4 and S4C each weekday morning from 28 September 1992 until 29 March 2002 during which period 2,482 shows were produced. The Big Breakfast was produced by Planet 24, the production company co-owned by former...
, BBC News 24
BBC News 24
BBC News is the BBC's 24-hour rolling news television network in the United Kingdom. The channel launched as BBC News 24 on 9 November 1997 at 17:30 as part of the BBC's foray into digital domestic television channels, becoming the first competitor to Sky News, which had been running since 1989...
and BBC1's Beat the Boss
Beat the Boss
Beat the Boss is a BBC TV programme in the UK, presented by Cameron Johnson and previously Saira Khan.Two teams, one kids team named "The Bright Sparks", and one adult team named "The Big Shots", have to create a product that will appeal to the kid's market...
.
- "Under 30, online and world-beating", The Observer
- The Times, Teenager website was my university of life
- BBC's Working Lunch, interview
- "Child Protection", BBC Radio One, Newsbeat
- Director magazine, Director of the Month
- The Big Breakfast, interview
- BBC World News, Feature
- "Online Grooming", BBC Radio One, Newsbeat
- "Online Grooming", BBC Radio Five Live
- Financial Times, interview on the damage raising school leaving age can have on young entrepreneurs
- Beat the Boss, BBC1