User:Travisb4279/Jay Bregman

Jay Bregman
Jay Bregman
Born	17 April 1979 (age 45); New York City
Nationality	American
Education	Tenafly High School; Dartmouth College; London School of Economics
Occupation(s)	Founder & CTO, eCourier.co.uk
Spouse	None

Jay Bregman (born New York City, 17 April 1979) is a London-based entrepreneur who co-founded UK Internet Business eCourier.co.uk, and serves as the company's Chief Technical Officer.

Education and Background

Bregman attended Tenafly High School in Tenafly, New Jersey. He graduated from Dartmouth College in the US with a degree in Philosophy, where his thesis was a critique of Lawrence Lessig's book Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. He later received a Master's degree from the London School of Economics.^[1]

His father, Dr. David Bregman, is a cardiac surgeon in the US and inventor of the Intra-aortic balloon pump.^[2]

eCourier.co.uk

In 2003, Bregman started eCourier.co.uk in London with fellow Dartmouth alumnus Tom Allason. They developed the idea after a failed delivery of tickets to Queen’s tennis^[3]. At the time, Bregman was taking an entrepreneurship course at the LSE. The two researched the industry, outlined the problems with traditional operators, and developed an IT platform to better them. Bregman designed "Larry", eCourier's intelligent despatch system, which uses Operational Research^[4] techniques to assign new orders to couriers in real time.^[5] eCourier has won a number of awards for its innovative use of technology.^[6] ^[7] ^[8] ^[9] ^[10]

Awards

Evening Standard / o2 Most Inspirational Business (2007)^[11]
Courvoisier Future 500 (2008)^[12]
Medallist, IT Director of the Year, British Computer Society (2005)^[13]

Interests

Bregman speaks on technology, in particular Location Based Services^[14] and mobile technology^[15], as well as entrepreneurship.^[16]^[17]^[18]
He was a member of the Office of Fair Trading's Futures Advisory Board, advising the regulator on new trends in the relationship between markets and government.^[19]

References

Sources

[1] "Dartmouth Philosopher Unites a Generation of Deep Thinkers", Dartmouth Life

[2] "New York-Presbyterian Heart 'Firsts'"

[3] Moules, Jonathan: Couriers Have High-Speed Connection, Financial Times, 18 March 2006

[4] Dyson, Esther: "Dr. Market: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Lose Control", Release 1.0 23(6):9

[5] Attanasio A., Bregman J., Ghiani G., Manni, E., "Real Time Fleet Management at eCourier Ltd." in Zeimpekis, V., et. al., Dynamic Fleet Managment: Concepts, Systems, Algorithms & Case Studies, Springer, 2007.

[6] Triple Winner: Most Innovative Use of IT, Most Effective Use of Communications Technology, Most Effective Use of IT in Manufacturing and Logistics, Information Age Effective IT Awards, 2006

[7] Business Achievement Flagship Award, British Computer Society

[8] Mobile Product or Initiative of the Year, CNET UK Technology Awards 2006

[9] Best Use of Technology, Natwest Startups Awards 2005

[10] DTI eCommerce Award, Transport Category, 2005

[11] Evening Standard / o2 Inspiration Award

[12] The Future 500

[13] Medallists of the Individual Excellence Awards 2005

[14] Location Based Services Forum 2008, 14-16 January, 2008, Amsterdam

[15] Real world. Real Time. Can the web deliver?, BT Big Thinkers series, Moderated by Esther Dyson, 11 December 2005, New York City

[16] "It's a Small World", 10th London Business School Entrepreneurship Conference, 25 April 2008

[17] "Pitch Camp", 16 October 2007

[18] "eCourier.co.uk," The Garage Launch Event, Imperial Entrepreneurs, Imperial College, London (23 October 2007)

[19] "Consultation on emerging trends", Office of Fair Trading (2008)

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