After filing the initial patents and being joined by co-founder Dr. Sam Bakri in 2007, the team attracted business angel and latterly undisclosed venture capital from industrials Martin Beaumont, Grant Berry, and Sir Peter Davis.
After various commercials and industrials, Blaise was cast in his first feature film, Solitude Point, playing the grandson of Bo Svenson and Mitsuko Baisho.
Since her graduation she has appeared in films, commercials, industrials and voiceovers, representing companies such as Perkinelmer, Canon, UBS Investment Bank and PUMA, where she is the voice of the PUMA Perfume Animagical global commercial campaign, featuring Usain Bolt.
He also had a productive career in karting, taking the Parma Industrials Karting Championship, a championship that was previously won by Scuderia Ferrari reserve driver Giancarlo Fisichella.
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The next few years would see Metcalfe move into the European stage of karting and in 2003 the youngster won his first Major European title – the Parma Industrials Karting Championship, previous won by Formula One race winner Giancarlo Fisichella.
The property had gone into debt and was in need of major investment when the German government and contributions from German industrials on initiative of Elard von Oldenburg-Januschau, gave Paul von Hindenburg clear title to Neudeck in 1927, for his services in World War I and as Reich President.
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