2012

Technology Fund Manager of the Year Award
Sponsored by PwC
Winner: The Biotech Growth Trust plc

Picture shows, left to right: Jass Sarai, UK Leader – Technology Industry Group, PwC; Alastair Smith, The Biotech Growth Trust plc (winner); Matt Cross, Partner, PwC; and Louise Minchin, awards presenter.

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techMARK Analyst of the Year Award
Sponsored by Design Portfolio Marketing Services
Winner: Bob Liao, Canaccord Genuity

Picture shows, left to right: Jass Sarai, UK Leader – Technology Industry Group, PwC; Julie Wilford, Managing Director, Design Portfolio Marketing Services; Bob Liao, Canaccord Genuity (winner); and Louise Minchin, awards presenter.

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Technology Innovation Award
Sponsored by Barclays 
Winner: ARM Holdings plc

Picture shows, left to right: Jass Sarai, UK Leader – Technology Industry Group, PwC; Sean Duffy, Head of Technology, Media and Telecoms, Barclays; Stephen Pattison, ARM Holdings plc (winner); and Louise Minchin, awards presenter.

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Technology Journalist of the Year Award
Sponsored by Luther Pendragon
Winner: David Rowan, Editor, WIRED

Picture shows, left to right: Jass Sarai, UK Leader – Technology Industry Group, PwC; Neil Thapar, Director, Luther Pendragon; David Rowan, Editor, WIRED (winner); and Louise Minchin, awards presenter.

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Emerging Star Award
Sponsored by Arma Partners
Winner: WANdisco plc

Picture shows, left to right: Jass Sarai, UK Leader – Technology Industry Group, PwC; Seth Kundrot, Vice President, Arma Partners; George O’Connor, Panmure Gordon (collecting the award on behalf of their client WANdisco plc, winner); and Louise Minchin, awards presenter.

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techMARK Achievement of the Year Award
Sponsored by Canaccord Genuity
Winner: Anite plc

Picture shows, left to right: Jass Sarai, UK Leader – Technology Industry Group, PwC; Andrew Beswick, Managing Director, Canaccord Genuity; Chris Humphrey, Anite plc (winner); and Louise Minchin, awards presenter.

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techMARK Personality of the Year Award
Sponsored by finnCap
Winner: Eric Hutchinson, Chief Financial Officer, Spirent Communications plc

Picture shows, left to right: Jass Sarai, UK Leader – Technology Industry Group, PwC; Sam Smith, Managing Director, finnCap; Vivienne Gibson, Spirent Communications plc (accepting the award on behalf of Eric Hutchinson, Chief Financial Officer, Spirent Communications plc, winner); and Louise Minchin, awards presenter.

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techMARK Company of the Year Award
Sponsored by Jefferies 
Winner: AVEVA Group plc

Picture shows, left to right: Jass Sarai, UK Leader – Technology Industry Group, PwC; Mark Fisher, European Head of Technology Investment Banking, Jefferies; Richard Longdon, Chief Executive, AVEVA Group plc (winner); and Louise Minchin, awards presenter.

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Technology Innovation of the Year Award
Sponsored by Barclays

ARM Holdings plc
BTG plc
Optos plc
Vectura Group plc

Technology Journalist of the Year Award

Mike Butcher – TechCrunch Europe
Katia Moskvitch – BBC
Maija Palmer – Financial Times
David Rowan – Wired

Emerging Star Award
Sponsored by Arma Partners

Huddle
Forward Internet Group
Mind Candy Ltd
PhotonStar LED Group plc
Skyscanner Ltd
Toumaz Ltd
WANdisco plc

techMARK Achievement of the Year Award
Sponsored by Canaccord Genuity

Anite plc
CSR plc
Micro Focus International plc
SkyePharma plc

techMARK Personality of the Year Award
Sponsored by finnCap

Roy Burton – Dialight plc
Mike Hickey – Wolfson Microelectronics plc
Eric Hutchinson – Spirent Communications plc
Mike Phillips – Micro Focus International plc

techMARK Company of the Year Award
Sponsored by Jefferies International Ltd

Anite plc
AVEVA Group plc
Oxford Instruments plc
Renishaw plc

News from 2012
techMARK Awards 2011 raises £7,015 – A massive thank you to all attendees for donating so generously to our charity collection at the techMARK Awards Dinner. We raised an incredible £7,015. On behalf of the chosen charities, the Brentwood Catholic Children's Society and The Prince's Trust, thank you so much. This will have an immediate positive impact on our work and we are very grateful to Ford Sinclair and PwC for making this happen.

Testimonials from 2011

• "Many thanks again for inviting us last night. It was a great event and we are naturally very pleased to have won. Also, thanks for the PR material and photo. This is now live on our homepage – www.dataexplorers.com – and we've tweeted – all linking back to techMARK."
  Alex Brog, DataExplorers
• "Thank you for the invitation to the excellent dinner yesterday evening. The whole event was another masterpiece of organisation and planning! As usual it was well organised with good food, good wine and good company."
  Peter Finnegan, PV Crystalox Solar plc

Social media
Our 2012 social media campaign engaged nearly 60,000 profiles including companies, journalists and key sector commentators. For the first time, real-time tweets were displayed on screens at the Dinner, encouraging social engagement and unique networking opportunities.

In addition, "Twinterviews" with the award winners were conducted, with answers posted in real time to Twitter. Below is a selection of the interview answers with the pick of the tweets available to download here:

• Bob Liao, Canaccord Genuity: "I feel genuinely shocked. It's been a good year but this is still a great surprise." #techmark
• Steve Pattison of @ARMCommunity: "This is a terrific achievement and is great to see ARM recognised as having the edge." #techmark
• @iRowan, Journalist of the year: "This is an honour & dedicated to our team." #techmark
• Chris Humphrey, @AniteNews: "To win the Achievement of the Year Award is a fantastic tribute to our people and our customers." #techmark
• Richard Longdon, Co. of the Year @AVEVAGroup: "We are 45 yrs old but the last 6 months were most exciting-this is a great reward." #techmark

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