Adam Hildreth

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name = Adam Hildreth
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birth_place = Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
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occupation = Entrepreneur
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networth = gain £25 million (US$50 million) [http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/specials/rich_list/article3798752.ece]
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Adam Hildreth (born 25 March, 1985, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England) setup his first company, Dubit Limited when he was 14. [http://www.dubitlimited.com] Dubit Limited went onto become one of the biggest teenage websites in the UK and now markets itself as a 'Youth Marketing Agency', advising major brands on how to market their products to young people.

Hildreth's latest venture is [http://www.crispthinking.com] Crisp Thinking, which develops online child protection technology. The company claims to work closely with both Internet Service Providers and child protection organisations to develop solutions that protect children and teenagers from 'online grooming'.

He was reportedly worth £2m in the 2004 UK top 20 richest teens list and the current (2008) Sunday Times Rich List ranks Hildreth as 23rd in the 100 richest young people in the UK based on a valuation of £25m. In a study of British Millionaires of the Future Adam was predicted to be worth £40m by the year 2020. Hildreth was named the CBI's Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the end of 2006, which was awarded to him by Duncan Bannatyne and Peter Jones from BBC's "Dragons' Den" programme.

Life and career

In 1999 he founded [http://www.dubitlimited.com Dubit] with 7 friends, making the "Guinness Book of Records" for being the youngest group of directors in the UK.

In 2003, he was convicted of drink-driving [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/3232127.stm] .

In 2003 he won an Achievement in Information Technology at the Yorkshire Young Achievers Awards

In 2005 he started [http://www.crispthinking.com Crisp Thinking] , which develops child protection technology for Internet Service Providers.

In 2006 he won the CBI's Young Entrepreneur of the Year accolade at the 2006 Growing Business Awards for his development of Crisp Thinking and its products. He was presented the award at a ceremony compared by Rt Hon. William Hague MP.

Awards and Achievements

*CBI's Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2006
*Yorkshire Young Achievers Award

Television, film, and print

He has been on a number of television shows including BBC2's "Working Lunch", "The Big Breakfast", BBC News 24 and BBC1's "Beat the Boss".

*"Under 30, online and world-beating", "The Observer"
*"The Times", Teenager website was my university of life
*BBC's "Working Lunch", interview
*"Child Protection", BBC Radio One, Newsbeat
*"Director" magazine, Director of the Month
*"The Big Breakfast", interview
*BBC World News, Feature
*"Online Grooming", BBC Radio One, Newsbeat
*"Online Grooming", BBC Radio Five Live
*"Financial Times", interview on the damage raising school leaving age can have on young entrepreneurs
*"Beat the Boss", BBC1

References

* [http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/specials/rich_list/article3798752.ece Times Rich List]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/uk/newsid_3514000/3514011.stm Young Rich List]
* [http://www.growingbusinessawards.co.uk/2006categories.htm Growing Business Awards]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3196045.stm Rich List 2020]
* [http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/enterprise/young/article691217.ece Teenager Website was my university of life]
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2003/09/02/cxdiary02.xml&sSheet=/money/2003/09/02/ixcoms.html#2 Telegraph City Diary]
* [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/76bb4b0a-0414-11dc-a931-000b5df10621.html School Leaving Age]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/beattheboss/teams/index.shtml?episode9 Beat the Boss]

Links

* [http://www.crispthinking.com/ Adam Hildreth's latest company]
* [http://www.dubitlimited.com/ Adam Hildreth's first company, Dubit Limited]