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Colin Wilkinson, The Funding Panel

Colin is a serial entrepreneur with specialist expertise in sales and marketing, corporate fund raising, and strategic consulting.  After becoming the youngest director (sales & marketing) of a plc in Britain at Eidos plc (which was also the fastest growing company on the London Stock Exchange over 5 years), Colin founded, raised funding for and ran several successful companies including VMC, a video conferencing business he set up with Noel Edmonds.  In the first 3 months of 2009, Colin co-founded and raised £2.75M in the teeth of the recession for Three Sixty Entertainment, which went on to produce the smash hit Peter Pan <http://www.peterpantheshow.com> and win the Start-ups 2009 Business of the Year award, having turned over in excess of £10m in its first year of trading. He is an active white knight investor having been involved in a number of turnarounds this year, and also he appears as a speaker at seminars and events.  See: www.incubation-uk.com


  • 3 August 2011Open for entry
  • 7th October 2011Extended entry deadline
  • 25 October 2011Finalists announced
  • 2 November 2011Judging day - if you are selected to be a finalist you need to be contactable by phone on this day
  • 2 December 2011Startups Awards at Kensington Roof Gardens