Steve Bowbrick is CEO and co-founder of another.com, a personalised email service.

Steve has been described by John Browning, European Editor of Wired Magazine and founder of First Tuesday, as 'Britain's most experienced web entrepreneur'.

He has been messing around where computers and media meet since he found some early Macintoshes in a concealed room at Central London Poly in 1985. Since then he has driven a van, worked in a library, taken wedding photos, lectured in universities and colleges and written computer manuals.

In 1992 he discovered the net, got a Demon account and an email address. In 1993 he helped Ivan Pope to publish the world's first magazine about the web. Called 3W magazine, it survived until its fourth issue and spanned the happy period between the arrival of the first web browsers and about the 100,000th web site.

In 1994 he and Ivan founded the now legendary Webmedia - Britain's first really serious web design house. There, he helped dozens of Britain's biggest firms - from Lloyds Bank to Arcadia Group to The Consumers Association - take their first steps on the net.

Steve raised money from Maurice Saatchi's Megalomedia PLC in 1996. The firm peaked at 65 staff and span off four distinct businesses, some of which still exist. Webmedia itself went bust in 1998. Steve publicly blames ambition, child-like naivety (and invisible weasels) for the failure, No one will ever really know.

Some random highlights from those highly entertaining early years would have to include:

Pitching John Doerr while standing on one of those wobbly gold banqueting chairs in the middle of the ballroom at The Rainbow Room in The Rockefeller Center.

Appearing on the front cover of the doomed UK edition of Wired Magazine while three feet above the ground (is there anything so melancholy as a defunct magazine?).

Selling part of the company to ad-land legend Maurice Saatchi while trading from a tiny, sweaty wine-cellar beneath the Cyberia Internet Cafe in London

Since 1999 he has been running another.com, the only truly personalised email service in the world. In 2000, Steve raised money for the firm at what was then the second-highest first round valuation for a UK dot.com ever (Boo.com pipped him to the top spot!). This seemed pretty cool at the time.

another.com recently left behind the increasingly airless mirror-world of the dot.com economy and began charging consumers for the use of their funky email addresses. As a result, the business is now a tenth of its former size and will break even this year. Blimey.

Steve's writing has been published all over the place - from the FT to Design Week, The Guardian to Marketing Week. He's also spoken on three continents about management, entrepreneurship, technology, identity, Internet economics and the web.

Steve is married to Juliet and lives in Hertfordshire, where occasionally you'll find him pretending to work in the shed at the bottom of the garden. They have two kids, Olly, born in 1998 and Billie in 2000. Write to Steve if you'd like to know more.

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