Svelte.im Ltd. was founded in
2006 by Lawrence Brooks to extend
the Svelte technical capabilities in to the active
management of Lawrence's investments.
The core asset that is controlled
by the Svelte.im Ltd. management was BTL,
a wholesale international carrier with a Tier 1
licence based in London and Southern Africa. This was sold to an Asian investor in March 2009
Lawrence set up Svelte.com Ltd in
1998 after integrating Equisoft Ltd. into Reuters
Group Plc on its purchase by them. Lawrence was Product Development Director of Equisoft Ltd.
Svelte.com Ltd analyses, manages and defines
strategic technologies (Encryption, Micro-payments,
Transaction Technologies and Telecoms) for the
commercial benefit of investors and boards of
companies.
Prior to joining Equisoft in 1993 Lawrence was involved in the strategic project management of
large engineering projects.
Lawrence holds an MBA, research into Quantitative Financial Risk Management
Techniques, and a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering. Also, Lawrence is an alumnus
of INSEAD - IEP 2000
Recent assignments include:-
- Fund raising for a wind farm in Eastern Europe
- Due diligence and structuring of an investment
for the global roll out of a "4G" technology on
behalf of Gulf investors
- The feasibility and prototyping of a new architecture to enable the
productisation of enterprise wide risk management information for a
leading risk management systems provider.
- The management of the integration of a new architecture for what
will be for the largest ISP platform in Europe for a blue chip
telecommunications firm.
- Architecture (Business and Technical), Design and Implementation
of a complex encryption regime for the large scale distribution of files.
- Structuring Bond issues for the
Treasury of a major South American Economy
- Interim management of several
technology firms on behalf of investors
- Corporate Finance assistance in
the sale of distressed businesses
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