Written for Caribbean Beat Issue No. 73 – May/June 2005 by Maggie Lee. The London-based Institute of International Visual Arts has earned a reputation for working with Caribbean artists. As inIVA gets to work on its new headquarters building, Maggie Lee investigates its role in promoting...
A strong coffee with the founders of speech-to-text telecom Spinvox...
In the discreet world of private equity, Permira, with a mission to promote the sector and funds sufficient to buy billion-euro businesses, is unusually open about its business. ...
Maggie Lee watches physicists and dancers working together to explain Einstein to everyone....
Written for Caribbean Beat March/April 2008 (Issue 90) Chris Blackwell turned Jamaican reggae singers into global stars. Now, as Maggie Lee reports, he’s turning a famous Jamaican estate into a global attraction. Chris Blackwell, the legendary founder of Island Records, who brought reggae and Bob Marley to...
Written for the Independent on Sunday, Nov 4, 2007, by Maggie Lee. Maggie Lee meets the head of an investment company with royal approval, founded just three years ago and already making waves in the UK. Sameer al-Ansari, founder and chairman of Dubai International Capital, chooses...
Written for the Independent on Sunday, Aug 26, 2007, by Maggie Lee. He still isn’t too old to rock ‘n’ roll and he was never too young to be wise about business. Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson talks to Maggie Lee. The only thing I regret about my...
Written for The Independent on Sunday, Mar 18, 2007 by Maggie Lee. Colin Kingsnorth, the cofounder of Laxey Partners, is keen to set the record straight about the secretive nature of hedge funds. “Contrary to popular belief, we adopt a Warren Buffett approach, investing in undervalued companies...
Written for The Independent on Sunday, Feb 18, 2007 by Maggie Lee. Gerald Ratner is upbeat. Three years since his return to the jewellery business, his wholesale and internet retail company, trading as Gerald Online, has broken even. “We’ve been lucky,” he says, “2003 turned out to...
Written for the Independent on Sunday, Jan 14, 2007 by Maggie Lee. Leaving aside the debut of WowWee’s robotic Elvis, it was a sober and collaborative affair at CES (the world’s largest consumer electronics show) in Las Vegas last week. In 2006, celebrities graced just about every...