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Dr. Uday Phadke is the founder and Chief Executive of Cartezia (www.cartezia.com), which specialises in the design and building of new products, services and businesses for the emerging digital marketplace. The principal focus of his activities is to analyse and create custom-built strategies for new start-ups and many of the world’s leading music, newspaper and TV groups, retailers, computer, telecommunications and consumer electronics companies and financial services organisations.

Uday read Engineering at Trinity College, Cambridge. His professional career over the last twenty years has spanned technical, operational and business development roles in the engineering, computing, electronics, media and investment industries, punctuated by several spells in academia. Prior to setting up Cartezia in 1997, he was a founder-Director of Generics, a Cambridge-based high technology company that developed innovative new products and services for a wide range of international companies, and European Director of Computing and Telecommunications for PA Consulting.

He has been extensively involved over the past fifteen years in providing strategic guidance and training to senior executives in a wide range of industries. In particular, he devised and ran the annual top management forums in New York and Los Angeles on Strategic Technology Planning for the Conference Board in the United States. Dr. Phadke has lectured extensively in Europe, North America and Asia on the business impact of digital convergence; in particular, he has delivered keynote addresses at the World Newspaper Congress and the Asia-Pacific Newspaper Publishers Conference. He was previously a Member of the International Council for the Management of Innovation and Technology.

During this period, Uday has also advised senior management in a wide range of media, telecommunications, technology and investment companies including Vodafone, Hewlett-Packard, Burda, Mannesman, France Telecom, EMAP, BT, Scottish Telecom, AT&T, Canon, BBC, Reed-Elsevier, ICL, Microsoft, Royal Bank of Scotland, Motorola, Amazon, Hearst, Bear Stearns and Disney. He has also been closely involved in the nurturing of several new mobile and broadband start-ups.

He is a Chartered Engineer and a Member of the Institutes of Mechanical, Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He is also a Charter member of TIE (The Indus Entrepreneurs & global mentoring organisation). He also provides specialist lectures on research and innovation strategies at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, London and Westminister. He has recently created a new Masters course in International Entrepreneurship for London University. He currently serves on the Boards of several early-stage businesses, including Dezineforce, where he is non-Executive Chairman.