Peter Cowley is a prolific and successful entrepreneur and angel investor. He has decades of experience of both successes and failures.
Apart from investing on his own account - he is a member of the Cambridge Angels, He also represents the GBP1.3 billion Marshall's Group Martlet Fund - an example of Corporate Angel investing.
Join us for Startup Stage with Peter to find out more about Angel Investing from a super experienced investor.
See you at Browar Lubicz on the 19th at 6PM
Peter is UKBAA Angel Investor of the Year for 2014/5, is a Fellow in Entrepreneurship at the Cambridge Judge Business School, has founded 12 companies, has invested in over 40 startups, is a non-executive director/board observer of seven of these and advises many others.
Peter Cowley has a Cambridge University degree in Engineering and Computing Science, lived in Bavaria for five years (where he founded his first company in 1981) and returned to Cambridge 11 years ago.
As an Angel, Peter has personally been investing in high growth start-ups for many years and is a board member of the Cambridge Angels. He is the Investment Director at Martlet - the Corporate Angel division of Marshall of Cambridge (a £1.4bn sales, 4500+ person engineering company). He set up the Computing Laboratory Ring mentoring scheme and is chair of the Cambridge ideaSpace supporter group.
I don’t distinguish between “work” and “life” nor worry about work/life balance, I prefer to be active/do things that are useful, interesting and valuable – whether for profit or not. Having a conversation or reading a book counts as activity to me. Sunbathing doesn’t. The main theme of this blog are entrepreneurship and its promotion, and interviewing people who are doing things relevant to future projects. Once of the best things about having a blog, podcast TEDx, Open Coffee, and a lot of businesses is that it gives me a reason to approach almost anyone doing anything interesting. asking them if they want to buy, sell, speak, be interviewed, or just attend.
