Mike Southon (writer)

Mike Southon
Born	England, UK
Occupation	Entrepreneur

Mike Southon is a British entrepreneur and author.

Mike Southon was educated at Papplewick School, Ascot (where he was a contemporary of Richard Curtis) and Wellington College, Crowthorne (where in 1967 he met Chris West, who was to become his co-author).

He subsequently attended Imperial College London to read mechanical engineering, but left after a year. He worked at Tate & Lyle Research in Reading for a while and then went on to the University of Bradford to read chemical engineering and management economics.

Southon has started a number of companies, the most successful of which was The Instruction Set, a Unix training company that he co-founded with Peter Griffiths and Mike Banahan in 1984. The company was bought out in 1989 by Hoskyns Group (now part of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young).

He was involved with 17 startup companies during the 1990s, including Riversoft and Micromuse, both of which ultimately had public floatations.

More recently, he has written books aimed at entrepreneurs with Chris West, the first of which was The Beermat Entrepreneur.

He gives presentations on entrepreneurship and sales, speaking at over 100 events every year, often referencing The Beatles and Sir Richard Branson

Southon has written columns for the Daily Telegraph, and Financial Times. He now writes a monthly column in the Mail on Sunday

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