| Website | stewarttownsend.com |
| Blog | themanintheshirt.com |
| @stewarttownsend | |
| Birthplace | manchester |
| Birthdate | 2/23/71 |
| Salford University, MA | 2010 |
| Social Media |
Stewart has spent ten years in Pre-sales, Partner Relations, Marketing and Business Development in the IT industry. For the past nine years at Sun Microsystems, Stewart has worked with independent software vendors, channel partners and small businesses/startups. His most recent appointment as EMEA Manager for the Emerging Business Team at Sun Microsystems focused on developing and executing a EMEA strategy to support start-ups and early stage companies, working with the investor community, startup community, entrepreneurship groups, government and Academia.
The Sun Startup Essentials programme for EMEA was managed by Stewart from 2007/2010.
Stewart has negotiated alliances with key partners such as MySpace and NTT Europe to help enable expansion and support of the programme on a global scale, outside of his EMEA remit.
He is a regular speaker and ambassador at key industry events in Europe on the subject of entrepreneurship, innovation, growing sales in/out of region and using social media as a sales enabler.
A keen advocate of supporting organisations, Stewart is a mentor for Seedcamp, an advisor/mentor to the difference engine, and gives time and advisory support to NACUE (National Consortium of University Entrepreneurs)
Outside corporate land, Stewart is a social entrepreneur and runs with The Alternative School an education provider focused on delivering education in a more holistic manner, is a mentor to The Next Women organisation, and on advisory boards for Media140 and WhiteBull.
At present he is studying for a MA Social Media, and delivers lessons to young people on safeguarding, cyberbullying and social media.
