From: "Pete Bresser" <>
To: <mnc.mail
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 8:47 PM
Subject: Old boy at MNC


> Trevor Grove suggested I write so you can add my details to the records of
> old boys at the MNC.
> 
> I was in the same class at Mr Grove from 1977, but I dropped out in 1979,
> failing to take the radar.
> 
> I found a job with a radio telecommunications company called Burndept Ltd,
> based at Erith in Kent, as a service engineer on MoD radio equipment used to
> rescue airman at sea. This SARBE equipment included radio receivers used in
> the RAF's Nimrods as well as personal locator beacons and floatation beacons
> used by commercial helicopter pilots and the RAF.
> 
> But this was very, very boring.
> 
> After two years I left engineering and, by pure luck, found a position in
> publishing as the assistant editor of an electronics magazine called What's
> new in Electronics. After two years on this book and then a further 18months
> as a reporter on Electronics Times, I joined a public relations firm
> specialising in marketing and communications for electronics and technology
> companies.
> 
> By the mid 1980s I'd had my fill of sucking up to marketing/sales guys that
> knew very little about electronics, let alone marketing, so I went back to
> publishing.
> 
> I blagged my way in as Editor of a title called Micro Technology and worked
> very hard for nine months before my previous publishing company took notice
> and poached me back for the editorship of What's new in Computing.
> 
> Happy days! This was great until a market downturn in the mid 1990s and I
> ended up briefly as Managing Editor of WniElectronics, as well as US
> correspondent. But I'd been there; done that, so I left to go into PR
> (again)
> 
> From here, onto a small agency I helped set up was a small journey, but the
> focus of colleagues I'd gone in with push us further into the Electronics
> area, which by now I felt was as interesting as nuts and bolts. My passion
> is computing, IT and the Internet.
> 
> Two years ago an opportunity came up to run a small company that had the
> start of an Internet product. I took over as Managing Director of this
> company and have been trying to turn the operation into a successful,
> profitable Internet based company.
> 
> So far I have managed to open up the US market for one of the company's new
> Internet products - but we remain smaller that the dot in most dot coms.
> 
> The future holds new challenges for me as we try to graft the existing
> company onto other operations in the marketing area.
> 
> I have travelled a VERY long way from the radio coms area, but not that far
> away from the old college. I now live in Bean, only three miles from our old
> stomping grounds.
> 
> 
> Here's to all who made it to sea - (anyone? anyone?)
> 
> Pete Bresser