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SUMMARY:From Start-Up to Scale-Up: a fireside chat with Jon Reynolds\, CEO
  and Co-Founder of SwiftKey - Jon Reynolds\, CEO and Co-Founder of SwiftKe
 y
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DESCRIPTION:Cambridge Judge Business School's Entrepreneurship Centre invi
 tes you to attend our special event with with Jon Reynolds\, CEO and Co-Fo
 under of SwiftKey.\n\n*Date: 8 June 2016\, 17:30-20:00*\n\n*Venue: Lecture
  Theatre 1\, Cambridge Judge Business School*\n\n*Find out more and regist
 er at http://insight.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/from-start-up-to-scale-up-a-fire
 side-chat-with-jon-reynolds/*\n\nSince its launch in 2008\, predictive tex
 t app SwiftKey\, has grown to become a global phenomenon. Installed on ove
 r 300 million smartphones\, the app replaces the default keyboard with one
  that can write words by swiping between characters\, memorising the user'
 s typing habits to predict their next words.\n\nThe app was also at the ce
 ntre of a collaborative project with Professor Stephen Hawking to revoluti
 onise his communication system. The technology now enables him to write an
 d speak with greater ease and for longer periods of time.  \n\nIn an exclu
 sive CJBS Entrepreneurship Centre event\, Co-Founder and CEO\, Jon Reynold
 s\, shares his story with Accelerate Cambridge programme mentor and succes
 sful Business Angel\, Simon Thorpe. Find out how the Cambridge alum's vent
 ure went from start-up to scale-up and how the business was sold to Micros
 oft earlier this year.\n\n*About Jon Reynolds*\n\nJon Reynolds is co-found
 er and CEO of SwiftKey\, the award-winning technology company whose missio
 n is to enhance interaction between people and technology. Jon co-founded 
 SwiftKey in 2008\, and has since been named ‘Young Tech Entrepreneur of 
 the Year’ (2013) at the Europioneers\, and one of the 2015 Forbes ’30 
 Under 30′ for Consumer Technology. Jon holds an MA in Physics from the U
 niversity of Cambridge and prior to founding SwiftKey\, worked as a civil 
 servant in the British Government.\n\n*About Simon Thorpe*\n\nSimon is an 
 angel investor\, coach\, mentor\, and acts as non-executive director to an
 d growth consulting with\, technology companies. He runs his own business\
 , Delta2020\, is a senior advisor to Eleven Canterbury\, a member of Cambr
 idge Capital Group and Angel Academe.\n\nHe is a participating mentor at t
 he University of Manchester\, Cambridge Judge Business School’s Accelera
 te Cambridge programme and Angel Academe’s female entrepreneur program\,
  and actively supports female entrepreneurs.\n
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 1\, Cambridge Judge Business School
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