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Name: Amanda McMurray
Company: North East Finance Limited
Job Title: Fund Manager

Amanda McMurray is Manager of the £2.4M Three Pillars Fund, a pre-seed investment fund investing in businesses working in energy, healthcare and health sciences and process industries and based in the North East of England. She is an investor with over 15 years' experience of spin-out, technology commercialisation and funding and investment of start up and early stage businesses.

See Company Profile North East Finance Limited

Top 5 Questions

Investment - how much and conditions ?
Mentoring - what is available, can we get it for free?
Other sources of money?
Can and how can investment (three Pillars, POC) be matched against BERR Grants for R&D?
Introductions to specific support - proposal review, accountants?

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Name: Jonathan Gold
Company: Finance Tree
Job Title: CEO

Jonathan is a specialist in concept and seed capital investment, with a background in business development and the commercialisation of technology with extensive experience of the Japanese market. He is the founder of Finance Tree, a training and development company working on early stage investment finance and venture capital, having completed a management buyout of in April 2008.

During his career to date he has established several early stage seed capital and venture funds attracting over £19m in capital from public and private sources for investment. A former director of NStar he also served as the Chief Executive of NorthStar Equity Investors, for its first year of operation, overseeing the creation and establishment of the £10m Proof of Concept Fund and a £23m Co-Investment Fund. He is a small investor in his own right in two technology Companies in the North East of England and has served as a non-executive director of one of these.

See Company Profile Finance Tree

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Ask Birt & Fund Finder

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Use Fund Finder to create a personalised list of grant, loan and equity sources that is matched against your individual business. Complete a short on-line questionnaire and the results will be stored in your personal profile for future access.

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North East Regional Business Fair - 25/02/2009

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