LinkedIn: Thomas Power - TopLinked.com

Current

Chairman at Ecademy
Mobile Ecademy at Ecademy

Past

Former Non-Executive Director at QXL Ricardo plc
Advisor at BT
Advisor at Microsoft

Group Managing Director at TDS Group Ltd
Group Managing Director at Scoot Interactive (TDS Group)
VP Marketing at Urban Science
marketing at urban science
Managing Director at DMS Europe
Marketing Manager at Amstrad plc
Account Director at Ekins, Bailey & Wood Advertising & Design
Engineer at Symbiotic Computer Systems

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Education

Croydon College

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Thomas Power - TopLinked.com’s Summary

Matchmaker. Dealmaker. Networker. Chairman of Ecademy. Non-Executive Director of entrepreneurial start-ups. Phone me on +447976438285 anytime to arrange a meeting.

Founded 10 years ago in February 1998 Ecademy, the oldest Social (Business) Network with over 400,000 unique users each month and built without venture capital.

http://www.quantcast.com/ecademy.com

Penny Power and I have personally met 10,000 of our members travelling to 50 countries with our 3 children (Hannah, Ross & TJ) since 1998.

These meetings are one reason why Ecademy has such a solid foundation and is unaffected by new Social Network start-ups regardless of their size, scale or capital base. I recommend that all our members use Linkedin and Facebook every day also although I remain sceptical if Facebook is anything more than MSN 2.0.

Ecademy is known as the Rolls-Royce of Business Networking the world over. It is still far in advance of Linkedin and Facebook my favourite other two.

Ecademy is about intimacy, privacy, trust, friendship and support in small groups across the world.

There are 500 Ecademy meetings a month around the world typically of around 5 to 20 people. Over 20,000 Ecademy face to face meetings have take place worldwide since 1998.

10,000 new members join each month entirely through word of mouth.

60% of our members are self employed and the average age is 45-54,

Penny, Glenn and me are 44.

We are aiming for 10 million members by 2050 a huge challenge from the current 400,000 users we have right now.

We build slowly, gently and reliably making continuous small improvements each and every day much like Toyota with Lexus and Scion.

Ecademy operates a Network Business Model. It's like an Ecosystem with its own economy inside just like ebay. This is known as Bionomics see Michael Rothschild's book of the same name 1990.

Penny and me hope to meet YOU one day.

Enjoy the Ecademy global family at http://www.ecademy.com

Thomas Power - TopLinked.com’s Specialties:

http://afriendineverycity.com/

http://www.ecademy.com/account.php?id=8

Thomas Power - TopLinked.com’s Experience

Chairman

Ecademy

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 1998 — Present (10 years 4 months)

The world's premier social network for business people with 300,000 business users members. http://www.ecademy.com.

http://www.quantcast.com/ecademy.com

Professional Speaker and author of 6 books available to speak around the globe just call me on +447976438285 or email thomas.power@ecademy.com
Mobile Ecademy

Ecademy

(Internet industry)

1998 — Present (10 years)
Former Non-Executive Director

QXL Ricardo plc

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; QXL; Internet industry)

February 2002 — September 2006 (4 years 8 months)

Publicly Listed Company Director on the London Stock Exchange.
Advisor

BT

(Public Company; Internet industry)

1987 — 2005 (18 years)
Advisor

Microsoft

(Public Company; Internet industry)

1985 — 2005 (20 years)
Group Managing Director

TDS Group Ltd

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 1996 — January 1998 (1 year 7 months)
Group Managing Director

Scoot Interactive (TDS Group)

(Internet industry)

1996 — 1998 (2 years)
VP Marketing

Urban Science

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 1992 — June 1996 (3 years 9 months)

One of the greatest unknown companies in the world and still the best job of my life with young children http://www.urbanscience.com
marketing

urban science

(Internet industry)

1992 — 1996 (4 years)
Managing Director

DMS Europe

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

January 1988 — October 1992 (4 years 10 months)
Marketing Manager

Amstrad plc

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

September 1986 — December 1987 (1 year 4 months)
Account Director

Ekins, Bailey & Wood Advertising & Design

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

April 1984 — August 1986 (2 years 5 months)
Engineer

Symbiotic Computer Systems

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 1983 — December 1984 (1 year 3 months)

Slave assembler of external Apple Mac hard-drives loved it.

Thomas Power - TopLinked.com’s Education

Croydon College

HND, Business, Finance & Marketing, 1982 — 1986

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Changing Lives, BlackStar, STAR, ENFP, 44, Penny, Hannah, Ross, TJ, Mum, Sisters, Ecademy, entrepreneur, memory, marketing, dogs, walking, lake, thinking, views, yoga, technology, business, statistics, books, lovesongs, wheat free, caffeine free, speaker, luxury, hotels, chardonnay, champagne, flying, movies, firewood, fires, corks, ChelseaFC, mountains, chateaux, pinkshirts, tennis, reading, ponderer, observer, analysis, pioneer, networking, networker, collector, connector, knowledge, travel, countries, places, people, events, romance, brainstorming.