We bring a unique mix of knowledge, experience, networks and relationships. The driving force for our activities comes from the Cartezia core team, which operates across Europe, North America and Asia. This core team is backed up by over 50 other experienced professionals based across the world.
Uday Phadke
Uday graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1976 with a degree in Engineering, after which he worked in the engineering and aerospace industries in the UK and USA. Following his PhD, he held a Research Fellowship at the University of Sussex, before joining Smith Associates in 1983, where he developed digital imaging technologies for television.
He joined the Systems Group at PA Consulting, becoming Director of the Computing and Telecommunications business in Europe. He left PA in 1987 to become a founder-Director of the Generics Group, a Cambridge-based high-technology company that develops innovative products and services for a wide range of international companies. After leaving Generics in 1995, he managed a boutique media strategy business in London, before setting up Cartezia. Since 1997, Uday has focused on creating and executing custom-built strategies for leading music, newspaper and TV groups, retailers, computer, telecommunications and consumer electronics companies and financial services players. Amongst others, he has worked with AT&T, Atex, BBC, Bear Stearns, BT, Burda, Cable & Wireless, Canon, Disney, EMAP, Getty Images, Hearst, ICL, Intel, Kodak, Microsoft, NatWest, Saatchi & Saatchi, Scottish Telecom, Reed-Elsevier, Trinity-Mirror, United News and Media and Viacom. He has also been involved in the nurturing of several start-ups, including Orchestream, PlanetRecruit and dezineforce.
Uday is based in Cambridge, UK.
uday.phadke@cartezia.com
Arno Roy
Arno graduated from the University of Bristol, UK, in 1976, with an Honours Degree in Chemical Physics. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse, and then worked in the UK and Switzerland for Philip Morris Inc and Gerald Metals, in audit and financial management roles.
From 1990 to 1995, he worked for a technology-driven medical device subsidiary of Pfizer, where he directed a SBU, was also Director of Finance and Administration, and then General Manager. From 1995 to 2000, Arno worked for Unisys Europe, where he was responsible for several joint ventures and acquisitions, and devised and implemented a three year strategic plan as Director, Corporate Strategy and Development, Europe. He then joined Exigen Europe as CFO, where he was responsible for creating the company’s infrastructure, market strategy, and group management development. Arno also sits on the Board of five International and Swiss companies.
Arno is based in Geneva, Switzerland.
arno.roy@cartezia.com
Hemant Jalan
Hemant graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India in 1979 with a degree in Chemical Engineering with Distinction, and then worked for Nucon industries in India and Europe for 7 years. During this period he was instrumental in setting up a major collaboration between Nucon and Zander of Germany for the manufacture and supply of compressed air filters and driers. He then did his MBA at IMD, in Lausanne, Switzerland in General Management, graduating with Distinction and also winning the Scholars Award.
Hemant joined The Generics Group plc, a technology and business consultancy company, based in Cambridge UK, in 1989. He developed some major new clients for Generics in the Engineering and Telecommunications industries, and also enabled the company to set up a new business activity targeted at the IT industry. During this period, he also led several teams working on the application of new digital technologies for the packaging industry.
Hemant returned to India in 1993, to become Managing Director and Chairman of Nucon Industries. Over the past fourteen years, he has been instrumental in developing the business of Nucon, both in the domestic Indian and international markets successfully and building a high-calibre operational team to run the business. Hemant now divides his time between Business development and Finance activities at Nucon, and advising European companies who would like to do business with Indian companies and vice versa. His strong technical background, coupled with international business experience, has been of significant benefit to clients in mapping out their market entry and development strategies and plans.
Hemant is based in Hyderabad, India.
hemant.jalan@cartezia.com
James van Oosterom
A Cambridge law graduate and qualified barrister, James gained an MBA from Cranfield Business School before starting out on a career in interactive electronic services.
James has over twenty years of experience in a wide range of senior management and consulting positions in the information industry, including online services, electronic publishing, e-commerce and financial information services.
He has held senior posts at BT and the London Stock Exchange, and was Marketing Director of BT's subsidiary ShareLink (now Charles Schwab Europe).
Since 1991, James has provided strategic advice to CEOs of media businesses in the digital interactive media market, including the BBC, Guardian Media Group, Reed Elsevier (LEXIS-NEXIS), Times Newspapers, The Economist Group, EMI, W H Smith, Sky, Microsoft Europe, Microsoft Network (MSN UK), Pearson, Mirror Group, Financial Times Information Services, Financial Times Newspapers, NatWest Bank, The European Commission DGXIIIE, Publicis, MAXAT and E*TRADE.
Before joining Cartezia, he led the consulting practice at Hydra Associates, providing strategic advisory services to CEOs of UK media businesses entering the digital marketplace. Prior to this he was Principal of the strategy consulting practice at a London-based advisory boutique, where he worked with some of the world's leading international media companies at Board level to address the challenge of digital convergence.
James's strong corporate background and extensive knowledge of the digital information industry - from both client and consultancy viewpoints - gives him unique insight into the challenges faced by organisations already operating within, or planning to enter, the digital marketplace.
James is based in London, UK.
james.vanoosterom@cartezia.com
Karl Beacock
Karl graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 1987 with a BA in Business Administration. He then worked for the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, initially on Trade Dispute Management in Ottawa, and then as Economic/Commercial Secretary in the Canadian Embassy in Buenos Aries, Argentina.
He then did an MBA at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France, in 1995, before joining Bain & Co as a consultant in Johannesburg, Geneva and Paris. He subsequently led a consulting team at Cluster Consulting in Barcelona before becoming a V-P at PriceWaterhouseCoopers Securities in Washington, DC.
Karl joined Microsoft in 2001, first as Director Corporate Development and Strategy in Seattle, WA, then as Senior Director Strategic Alliances MSN. In this latter role, he was responsible for a team based in Asia, US and the EU, working on building strategic alliances in the communications sector, including deals on instant messaging and wireless networks.
Karl is based in London, UK.
karl.beacock@cartezia.com
Peter Johnson
Following an MA in Physics and Philosophy, Peter gained an MA and MBA from Stanford before embarking on a consulting career with Bain & Co during its initial European development.
He joined The LEK Partnership in 1983, becoming a Managing Partner in 1989. He carried out strategy and M&A assignments in a wide variety of industries in Europe and the US, including retailing, financial services, leisure and engineering businesses for British American, European and Australian multinationals, including Boots, TSB, Eaton, Esselte, THF, Inchcape, Granada, Imperial, Brambles, Prudential, Siemens, Cardo and Lafarge. In addition to making a major contribution to the management and growth of LEK, Peter also sat on the boards of a number of smaller companies, including Generics Plc.
In 1993, he left consulting in order to help develop the new SAID business school at Oxford and gained an DPhil in 1997. Until recently he was a Fellow of Balliol College and a University Lecturer in New Business Development. While at Oxford he had significant involvement in technology and entrepreneurship development, including sitting on the board of a high-tech displays company, Opsys, where he helped with funding and strategy. He was also responsible for initiating the Venturefest fair for entrepreneurs.
He has started a number of companies himself (Softsign, LEK Paris, Airbabes), is an active business angel and mentor. He is a non-executive or advisory board member of a number of companies including a seed capital firm (Egan and Talbot).
Peter is based in Oxford, UK.
peter.johnson@cartezia.com
Richard Cawdell
Richard graduated in 1977 from the University of Sussex with a degree in Physics, Electronics and Maths. He then worked with the Long Range Studies unit of BT, based in Cambridge. Having focussed on emerging local communications technologies, in 1981 he moved to a Marketing role in the rapidly growing Canadian manufacturer Mitel, gaining an early first hand view of the issues implicit in a high growth technology company.
From Mitel he moved in 1985 to the European Commission as an expert advisor, introducing user and application aspects of the RACE R&D programme, in particular creating application pilots which challenged technologists to understand the requirements of users, and users to absorb the potential of broadband technologies.
Putting theory into practice, in 1990 he took on a role for 3 years as Group Telecoms Director in the systems function of Grand Metropolitan (now Diageo). He briefly followed this with a similar role for Allied Signal, based in Paris, before beginning a decade addressing systems, infrastructure and technology issues in financial services in the City of London, firstly as Group I.T. Director of Exco (now Intercapital), and latterly as Group I.S. Director of the Rothschild investment bank.
Richard has broad international experience of both supply and client sides of telecommunications, I.S. and consultancy businesses, operating in IT/telecoms, FMCG and financial services sectors. He has also experience of the issues involved in creating an effective, efficient I.S. organisation within specific regulatory, compliance and cultural frameworks.
Richard Cawdell is based in Vancouver, Canada.
richard.cawdell@cartezia.com
Arun Muthirulan
Arun started his career in the IT services industry, moving on from software development/team management roles to managing complex business critical IT development and implementation projects across multiple geographic locations. A computer engineer by background, most of Arun’s IT career was with Cognizant Technology Solutions in India, Canada and the UK, working with blue chip clients such as Ford Motor Co, Dun & Bradstreet Corporation and Aetna Life Insurance Company.
In 2006, Arun graduated with an MBA degree from Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Post-MBA, Arun has focused on the challenges of developing viable commercial concepts from nascent ideas/technologies and developing them to be market and investor ready. He has worked with start-ups and early stage companies in a range of advisory and operational roles to build them into viable businesses. Most recently, he has worked with an engineering design software start-up in a strategic marketing role.
Other assignments include a corporate development role for an early stage company and running a series of commercial due diligence/feasibility projects for novel technologies coming out of the labs of Cambridge University. Arun’s interests also span the field of education and training where he develops and conducts programmes for international audiences on entrepreneurship, business planning and commercialisation of innovation across technology, products and services and business models.
Arun is now based in Cambridge, UK.
arun.muthirulan@cartezia.com