The Cambridge Network is a commercial business networking

Business networking

Business networking is a socioeconomic activity by which groups of like-minded businesspeople recognize, create, or act upon business opportunities. A business network is a type of social network whose reason for existing is business activity...

 organisation for business people and academics working in technology fields in the Cambridge

Cambridge

The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...

 area of the UK. The businesses and organisations that make up its membership are typical of those found in the 'Cambridge Cluster' or Silicon Fen

Silicon Fen

Silicon Fen is the name given to the region around Cambridge, England, which is home to a large cluster of high-tech businesses focusing on software, electronics, and biotechnology...

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The network was founded in 1998 by Nigel Brown, David Cleevely

David Cleevely

David Cleevely is an entrepreneur and international telecoms expert who has built and advised many companies, principally in Cambridge, UK.- Telecommunications :...

, Fred Hallsworth, Hermann Hauser

Hermann Hauser

Hermann Maria Hauser, CBE FREng FinstP CPhys , is an entrepreneur who was born in Vienna, Austria but is primarily associated with Silicon Fen in England....

, Anthony Ross and Alec Broers

Alec Broers, Baron Broers

Alec Nigel Broers, Baron Broers, is an Anglo-Australian electrical engineer.Broers was born in Calcutta, India and educated at Geelong Grammar School and Melbourne University in Australia, and then University of Cambridge in England.He then worked in the research and development laboratories of...

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Chairman of Cambridge Network Ltd is Neil Davidson of Red Gate Software

Red Gate Software

Red Gate Software is a software company based in Cambridge, UK. It primarily provides tools for database developers and administrators. In addition, through its Simple Talk Publishing subsidiary, it maintains community websites such as SQL Server Central and Simple Talk...

, and current Board Members include founder Hermann Hauser, Paul Bailey of Bailey Fisher, Prof Lynn Gladden

Lynn Gladden

Lynn Faith Gladden CBE, FRS is the Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering and was Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge up until 1 October 2010. She is also a Pro-Vice Chancellor from 1 January 2010 and a Fellow of Trinity College since 1999...

 Pro V-C of Cambridge University, David Halstead of Deloitte, Hugh Parnell of NW Brown, Bill Parsons of ARM

ARM Holdings

ARM Holdings plc is a British multinational semiconductor and software company headquartered in Cambridge. Its largest business is in processors, although it also designs, licenses and sells software development tools under the RealView and KEIL brands, systems and platforms, system-on-a-chip...

, Alan Sibbald of Anglia Ruskin University

Anglia Ruskin University

Anglia Ruskin University is one of the largest universities in Eastern England, United Kingdom, with a total student population of around 30,000.-History:...

, Peter Taylor of TTP Group and Ken Wood of Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

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Its President is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz

Leszek Borysiewicz

Sir Leszek Krzysztof Borysiewicz, FRS is a Polish British physician, immunologist and scientific administrator. He is currently the 345th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, his term of office started on 1 October 2010...

. Claire Ruskin is chief executive, appointed in March 2011 and David Mardle of Taylor Wessing is Company Secretary.

Activities

• The organisation's mission is "To bring people together to raise Cambridge's game and to collaborate for shared success".
• It has over 1,000 corporate and 300 individual members.
• The Cambridge Network facilitates a number of other services, including
  • The Cambridge Corporate Gateway - an information website dedicated to matching external organisation's technological requirement to companies in the Cambridge area.
  • Open meetings and lectures intended to bring together business and academic interests.
  • The Learning Collaboration - encouraging local companies to pool training resources.