Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> April 2, 2001
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
its principal aims?
Mr. Mendelsohn: Our model is essentially to provide people as well as
money to early-stage
