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Byte Night, the UK IT industry's big charity event, is starting to gain momentum once again with some of the biggest names in the business signing up to this year's board.
For those of you who missed my earlier blog on the event, Byte Night is an annual event that sees people from across the industry sleeping rough for one night in winter in locations across the UK to raise money for Action for Children.
Last year around 500 of us braved sub-zero temperatures to raise just shy of £470,000 for this worthy cause and this year, recession be damned, we're aiming for the half-a-million mark.
Dion Smith, printing sales director at Dell and a member of this year's Board put it very well, saying: "Just because times are tough, does not mean support should wane. This year's board are more integral than ever to maintaining the high standards set in previous years, and I'm proud to be part of it."
Each regional event has its own Board and these men and women devote their precious spare time to helping shape the event and ensure targets are hit. This year's London Byte Night Board is as follows:
Ken Deeks, Director, The Amber Group
James Bennet, Sector Director - technology, Ernst & Young
Rod Banner, Chairman, Banner Corporation
Mike Barrett, Director, Compound Media
Tom Bureau, Chief Executive, Magicalia
Steve Clarke, Director, Systems and Operations, The Talk Talk Group
Julian Frost, Head of TMT, BDO Stoy Hayward
Isaac George, Group Offshore Director, Steria
Nick Giles, Managing Director, Text 100
Tony Goodwin, Chairman and CEO, Antal International
Simon Grice, Founder, Mashup Event
David Groom, Managing Director, Experian
Sally Hanson, Global Marketing Communications Director, Microfocus
Gavin Isle, Managing Director, Owner Managed Businesses and Direct Channels, Barclays Commercial Bank
Dylan Jones, IT Director, John Laing PLC
Chris Lewis, Chief Executive, Lewis PR
Martin Mackay, Vice President EMEA, Verisign
Nick Marsh, Managing Director, Harvey Nash
Paddy McGwwire, Managing Director, Cobalt Corporate Finance
Martin McPhee, Partner, Accenture
Andrew Miller, Director, Wilson Miller
Mark Needham, Executive Chairman, Widget
Jill Orr, Managing Director, CBS Interactive
Graham Palmer, Marketing Director, Intel
Kath Pooley, Managing Director EMEA, Bite PR
JP Rangaswami, Managing Director, BT Design
Paul Renney, Partner, Campbell Hoopers
Richard Sacre, IT Director, John Brown Media
Arun Shenoy, Vice President & Director, Invantia
Jodie Sinclair, Partner, Bevan Brittan
Dion Smith, Printing Sales Director, Dell
Ian Snadden, Vice President & General Manager, Unisys
James Stevenson, Area Vice President, Citrix
Mike Tobin, Chief Executive, Telecity
Alwyn Welch, Chief Executive, Parity Group
Ian Wilson, Director, Wilson Miller
Dave Winpenny, Vice President - Worldwide Customer Support, GFI Software
Rob Wirszycz, Non Executive Chairman and Director, Umee, Bluesource and Fortus Partners LLP
This year's event is to be held on 2 October and I'll be there again, but this year I'll have a video camera to hopefully capture some of the more entertaining moments.
If you'd like to help support Byte Night 2009, I have a sponsorship page here to help do my bit to hit that £500,000 mark.
05 Jun 2009
