Thanks to Emma Kennedy in the Sunday Business Post for the article in the paper today.
As mentioned in the paper myself and Fintan will shortly be joined on the dbTwang board by Gerry McQuaid who up until recently was the Commercial Director of O2. He remains a non-executive director with them.
Gerry is a great asset for dbTwang - his commercial experience of building up a large business from scratch is second to none. The icing on the cake is that he is passionate about guitars :).
We are also fortunate to have Jamie Crompton advising us. Jamie has worked at senior level for 17 years in the guitar industry.
He was Business Development Manager and head of Artist Relations at Fender Europe until late last year. He advises dbTwang on strategic partnership development within the industry.
And you can take it for granted that he is a guitar collector!
As covered in a previous post one of the keys to building a successful business is to work with people better than you. Myself and Fintan are good at what we do - Gerry and Jamie are experts in their respective areas. Over time we will add to the group working with us on this - if we continue to find directors and advisors as good as this we will be really lucky.
On with the Angel round.
keith
It was great to see your own blog photo used in the article Keith - just goes to show the value of having a good profile pic. And wow.... what a team you guys are assembling!
Posted by: James Corbett | August 03, 2008 at 12:04
@James. The team is key. And thanks to Claire Wilson (gingerpixel.com) for the photo.
keith
Posted by: keith bohanna | August 03, 2008 at 12:28
Well done Keith :)
Delighted to see you getting the right attention, and look forward to seeing you up and running.
Hopefully paths will cross again in the not-to-distant future as I'd love to shoot the breeze on your experiences with all this.
Rgds
Richard
Posted by: Richard Hearne | August 03, 2008 at 14:46
Look forward to that Richard ;)
keith
Posted by: keith bohanna | August 03, 2008 at 15:14
Delighted to things coming along and looking forward to the eventual launch. Must get a catch-up chat about things!
Posted by: Ken McGuire | August 04, 2008 at 11:34
just spotted you through Damien Mulley. Congrats having Gerry McQuaid on board. He is a very popular and talented individual.
Posted by: Paul | August 04, 2008 at 13:24
@Ken - call in for coffee. or take me out :-)
@Paul - thanks for your comment. Yes he is!
keith
Posted by: keith bohanna | August 04, 2008 at 15:32
Congrats! Got the link via Mulley, it's bril to see you guys settling into print media - best of luck with the first round!
Posted by: MJ | August 05, 2008 at 09:54
@MJ - thanks for that. a tiny bit done, bloody loads left to do ;-)
keith
Posted by: keith bohanna | August 05, 2008 at 10:24