GFT to Co-Sponsor ITC Entrepreneur Awards

June 7, 2013 - PRLog -- London, 7 June 2013, International, strategic IT partner The GFT Group, has today announced it will be a sponsor at the ITC (http://www.wcit.org.uk) Entrepreneurs Enterprise Awards. Christopher Ortiz, UK MD, will present an award at tonight’s event. This will be the third annual award winners event at Plaisterers Hall, City of London. GFT has over 25 years of capital markets domain and technology expertise offering its customers innovative strength and outstanding quality to companies around the world.

Christopher Ortiz explains, “GFT has been designing and optimising the business processes of its clients since 1987. We therefore understand the challenges businesses face in retaining their entrepreneurial spirit, encouraging innovation and responding to new technologies. GFT keeps itself and its clients at the cutting-edge by supporting innovative businesses across Europe and now specifically in London, whilst offering new businesses the benefit of our experience”. He continued, “We believe that innovation doesn’t happen by chance, so we created a clearly structured process to make innovation an integral part of our corporate culture, this lead to the creation of our Applied Technologies Team and the development of our Global Innovation Contest CODE_n”.

GFT’s Applied Technologies Group was founded with the goal of promoting open innovation and bringing ideas to market. GFT is a also co-founder of CODE_n, an international innovation initiative, which aims to discover and promote inventive businesses. Through CODE_n, GFT can address the challenge of remaining innovative and provide a platform for pioneering companies. The third CODE_n contest will take place at CeBIT in March 2014.  

The ITC (http://www.wcit.org.uk/) Entrepreneurs’ Forum is part of the Information Technologists' Company, the 100th Livery Company of the City of London. Its annual Enterprise Awards recognise some of the most outstanding achievements of the entrepreneurs being mentored by the ITC.