Mark Abrams

MARK ABRAMS, 36, is the Managing Director of Myratech.net Plc. Mr
Abrams was born in Birmingham. An after-school computing group at the
city’s King Edward VI School led to a life-long fascination with
information technology and its business applications. In 1982, at the
age of 18, Mr Abrams joined an educational software company as a junior
programmer. Within three years, Mark was managing the business – called
Burra Burra – which had been started by his old maths teacher. In 1989,
Mr Abrams was given the chance to buy the business, which had by then
moved into software support. Foreseeing the demise of the educational
computer market, Mark moved Burra Burra into the business arena and grew
the annual turnover from GBP200,000 to GBP1.5 million, and two employees
to twenty. Mr Abrams entrepreneurial flair capitalised on the
popularity of PCs for business, selected market leader Sage Software as
his software partner, and, via a second company, Myratech, began
offering customers internet solutions in 1996. At the end of 1999,
determined to expand the business further, Mr Abram embarked on the road
to flotation with the full backing of his management team. Myratech.net
successfully floated on the London Stock Exchange’s Alternative
Investment Market at the end of March 2000, with a market capitalisation
of approximately GBP35 million.