Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> April 2, 2001

Fred Mendelsohn – Axiomlab Plc (axm.l)

FRED MENDELSOHN is the Managing Director of Axiomlab. Aged 38, he was born and educated in Lancashire. He graduated from St Edmund Hall, Oxford University, with a First Class degree in Law and subsequently qualified as a chartered accountant with Arthur Andersen & Co in London. He was also admitted to the Institute of Taxation and gained an MBA from the Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar. After working for McKinsey & Co in London, Scotland, and Dublin, he founded a corporate finance boutique in 1995. In 1998, he was instrumental in the launch of Sibson & Co in Europe. Sibson is a US-based management consultancy business, advising on a range of human capital and strategy issues, including telecommunications and e-commerce. Profile
TWST: Let's start with a quick corporate refresher on Axiomlab: what are

its principal aims?

Mr. Mendelsohn: Our model is essentially to provide people as well as

money to early-stage