Compound Media sponsors top award

On monday night I was at the CNET Networks UK Business Technology Awards at the Hilton in Park Lane to present the award for the IT Services Technology Project of the Year. It was a close run thing between the top names in the banking sector with the eventual winners being ABN Amro for their London message hub project.

It was a very enjoyable evening hosted by John Simpson, the BBC foreign affairs correspondent who shared several "interesting" anecdotes from his times with such differing personalities as George Bush and Colonel Gadaffi who apparently always conducted interviews from a distance in fear of being assassinated (surely not by the BBC?).

It was the first time Compound Media has sponsored anything like this and it was great to see such a big turnout with over 600 guests at the event. We also raised over £4000 for Byte Night during the evening.