Pembroke College

The Parmee Prize competition is an annual event that offers students a chance to win £2000 to kickstart their business. Richard Parmee (1970) is the driving force behind the prize. He began at Pembroke in the Natural Sciences Tripos, but after two years had migrated to Electrical Sciences in Engineering. This, it transpired, was a good decision, as he did well enough there to begin research in what is now signal processing.  However, he also started his first business around this time, and although it took a while to grow, it began to take off after a year or so: “The problem was that by the time I got to the…