{"id":5818,"date":"2011-04-01T14:21:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T13:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/?p=5818"},"modified":"2021-05-27T11:46:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T10:46:28","slug":"piers-linney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/piers-linney\/","title":{"rendered":"Piers Linney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Piers-Linney.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5819 alignright\" alt=\"Piers Linney\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Piers-Linney.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\"><\/a>Piers Linney is an entrepreneur with a wide breadth of professional experience, having qualified as a solicitor specialising in private equity and worked as an investment banker, venture capital fund CEO and hedge fund manager.<\/p>\n<p>He has been involved in high-growth technology, media and telecoms companies as a founder, investor or adviser since starting an internet-based pharmaceutical research business in 2000. In 2007, he and his business partner, Simon Newton, structured a buyout of a mobile voice and data reseller business from a FTSE 100 company.<\/p>\n<p>Today they are major shareholders and joint CEOs, and under their leadership the company, rebranded as Outsourcery, has become a world-leading provider of cloud IT and unified communication services for businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Linney sits on the governance board of the Cloud Industry Forum and was featured in The Power List 2011, a compendium of the top 100 most influential black people in Britain.&nbsp; Linney has also featured in an episode of Channel 4 series <em>The Secret Millionaire<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piers Linney is an entrepreneur with a wide breadth of professional experience, having qualified as a solicitor specialising in private equity and worked as an investment banker, venture capital fund CEO and hedge fund manager. 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