David Rowe (entrepreneur)

David Rowe (born 1958) is a London-based high tech entrepreneur who founded Easynet,[1][2] a U.K. ISP in 1994, alongside Cyberia, one of the world's first commercial cybercafes. Easynet was one of the first Internet companies in the U.K. to list on AIM in 1996, and subsequently on the LSE in 1999.[3] The company created subsidiaries in a number of European countries and pioneered alternative local loop infrastructure in the UK.[4] In 2001 Easynet merged with Ipsaris, the U.K. fibre optic infrastructure provider owned by Marconi. In 2006 Easynet was bought by BSkyB for £211m[5] and Rowe worked for James Murdoch as part of the Sky management team. In 2010, Rowe led the buyout team of Easynet Corporate services from Sky alongside LDC, a UK private equity company owned by Lloyds Bank.[6]

Rowe left Easynet to start his own high tech venture capital business Black Green Capital in 2013.[7]

Rowe was selected by the National Portrait Gallery for entrepreneurship in Telecoms and the Internet.[8]