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Alan Patrick

Alan Patrick
Co Founder, Broadsight Ltd, also writes Broadstuff blog (www.broadstuff.com)

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Alan Patrick co founded Broadsight after a career both consulting to, and working at, senior level for leading global multimedia companies such as the BBC, British Telecom (OpenWorld and Ignite), AOL Time Warner, ntl and UPC. He has worked in the US, Europe, South Africa and the Far East.

Prior to setting up Broadsight, Alan was Managing Director and COO at Jacobs Rimell, who specialise in multi-media OSS systems. Before that he held positions as VP Corporate Development for Globix Corporation in New York, Head of Internet Business Development at British Telecom, and consulted widely on multimedia to a number of major TV and cable companies in his consulting career at McKinsey and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. He was involved in the design of broadband networks in the early days of their inception and has written several articles on the impact of lean operations on digital supply chains.

Alan is based in London, UK.

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11:10 Wednesday, 22-10-2008
Alan Patrick (Broadsight Ltd, also writes Broadstuff blog (www.broadstuff.com))
A large amount of Web 2.0 business plans depend to some extent or another on "Freeconomics." However, we believe this has severe limitations once companies are past initial startup stage, as the costs rapidly outstrip the resources. A rethink is required. Read more.