Tristan Rogers: A business built on chance encounters

Tristan Rogers counts several big-name retailers amongst his clients. And with ConcretePlatform - his online photographic storage firm - turning over millions, he's now got his sights on America.

For Tristan Rogers, the 1990s dotcom boom came at the right time. A 24-year-old digital media student, he began building websites for blue-chip firms. "There was little competition. If you said you could build a good website, companies took you seriously."

He won contracts with Diageo and the BBC. When he finished his course in 1997, he built up his new firm, ConcretePlatform. "Things soon got a lot more competitive", but Rogers had a head start and by 1998 the firm generated sales of more than £200,000.

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James McKeigue

James graduated from Keele University with a BA (Hons) in English literature and history, and has a certificate in journalism from the NCTJ. James has worked as a freelance journalist in various Latin American countries.He also had a spell at ITV, as welll as wring for Television Business International and covering the European equity markets for the Forbes.com London bureau. James has travelled extensively in emerging markets, reporting for international energy magazines such as Oil and Gas Investor, and institutional publications such as the Commonwealth Business Environment Report. He is currently the managing editor of LatAm INVESTOR, the UK's only Latin American finance magazine.