Business Leaders Network (BLN) the networking and events forum for tech sector business leaders and investors, are hosting a further CEO Tales and networking drinks event in partnership with Erevena featuring Ken Segall, the previous Creative Director of Apple. This event will offer participants the chance to hear Ken talk about his experiences within Apple and witness the UK launch of his much anticipated book ‘Insanely Simple: the obsession that drives Apple’s success’ followed by a lively Q&A and networking.

http://thebln.com/event/19436/

Simon Raitt has been appointed as a Senior Partner at Erevena. Simon joins Erevena from La Fosse Associates where he held the position of Associate Director. Prior to that Simon was a Director at XEC Search and was a Regional Director at Harvey Nash.

Maria Josife has been appointed as Partner at Erevena. Prior to joining Erevena, Maria was a Director at The Cornell Partnership. Prior to this she worked for Board level Search firm MWM Consulting, and Bird & Co, where she was part of the TMT practice

“We are thrilled to welcome Maria and Simon onto the team. It has long been in our plans to build a practice with a broad remit of hiring senior people/C suite individuals into companies who use technology to enable their business.  Simon and Maria have broad experience across Marketing, Corporate Development, Strategy and Technology. This will enable us to provide the same levels of service to consumer internet companies or banks that we currently provide to our customers in the technology and professional services arenas. We are particularly excited about the opportunities that cross-fertilising these different networks will produce.” Dan Hyde, CEO.

http://www.erevena.com/who-we-are/simon-raitt/

http://www.erevena.com/who-we-are/maria-josife/

To support continued growth Erevena have appointed Joe Abbott and Harry Tolfree to strengthen the research function. Both Joe and Harry have a strong track record of research and delivery of assignments in the software, SaaS and emerging technology markets.

http://www.erevena.com/who-we-are/joe-abbott/

http://www.erevena.com/who-we-are/harry-tolfree/

Business Leaders Network (BLN) the networking and events forum for tech sector business leaders and investors driving innovation and growth, hosted a further CEO Tales and networking drinks event in partnership with Erevena featuring Giacomo ‘Peldi’ Guilizzoni of Balsamiq Mockups last week in London. Peldi spoke about why the current fashion for data-driven software businesses is a bad thing and offered an alternative approach to software development – understanding what a customer is trying to achieve. Erevena continue their partnership with BLN to provide sponsorship and support at a number of events, bringing the experience of ‘building the teams that build the companies’ into the forum, and providing our customers with exposure to the pooled experience of leaders linked though the BLN.

In response to a growing demand for its services from the Consulting, Technology Services and Outsourcing sectors Erevena today launched Erevena Professional Services. Led by two Partners with deep Services experience Kelvin Jones and Greg Tait, Erevena Professional Services will bring Erevena’s ethos of Trust, Capability, Delivery and Impact into this growing market.

http://erevena-ps.com/