Author, CEO, Entrepreneur. Stanford & UC Berkeley Mentor/London Business School EIR

Expert in Software Security and Entrepreneurship. Special focus on mentoring and guidance of new entrepreneurs and small business owners

Jon has extensive leadership experience in the information technology, communications and new media arenas with executive roles spanning from VP Sales and Marketing to President and Chief Executive Officer. He has a great deal of expertise in the Software Development and Security markets and over 24 years in the IT business

Jon is the founder and CEO of a number of successful hi-tech companies. In tandem with his Entrepreneurial commitments Jon actively promotes the concept of 'contribution' and 'giving back' and has provided mentor support to students at the London Business School for seven years and is now also a Mentor at Stanford and UC Berkeley Universities in California where a number of his businesses and family are now based

Author of 'So you want to be an entrepreneur' (Wiley) -- all the profits go to the Grameen foundation to help grow more entrepreneurs

A regular blogger, podcaster and broadcaster on entrepreneurship, mentoring and business coaching in titles such as BusinessWeek, The Independent newspaper, Small Business Trends and TheStreet.com

Learn more here: http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/ and here: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gillespiebrown