Bracknell: TekHub creates 100 jobs in Bracknell – 50 more in the New Year

Tech start-up The TekHub, a £2 million centre of digital excellence to help support and stimulate innovation in UK industry, has created 100 new jobs in Bracknell.

Created by young Berkshire-based entrepreneurs Dilshad and Barinder Hothi, it is due to launch this Friday (October 16), with plans to recruit a further 50 employees in the New Year.

A 100-strong army of digital experts – including marketers, designers, developers, analysts and engineers – has been recruited for The TekHub's launch.

The business is based at a 10,000 sq ft office at the Reflex building on Cain Road, Bracknell.

Barinder explained: "The TekHub is to be an innovation centre of digital excellence. Its purpose is to create world-class software from mobile apps to complex web-enabled platforms to compete at a global standard."

The entrepreneurial couple is already hugely successful. They are the brains behind Bracknell-based The Knowledge Academy, the world's biggest training company, with 250 staff and an expected £35m turnover this year, offering over 36,000 training courses globally from San Francisco to Sydney, covering over 50 subject areas from business, finance and legal, to IT, HR and project management. Launched in 2009, its clients include Rolls Royce, HSBC, British Airways, PwC, Disney, the MoD, the NHS and the House of Commons.

Barinder added: "We are tremendously excited to launch The TekHub and we hope that it will be the first of many around the UK that provides a unique platform for digital innovation to the UK economy.

"It has already begun its mission to create new jobs, skills and innovation to lead Britain to the front of the digital innovation race.

"Locating the The TekHub in Bracknell and not London has inspired us to rival the success of other digital communities such as Silicon Roundabout in London."

Nearby Reading already has a strong history in digital tech, being home to some of the biggest technology companies in the world including Oracle, Intel, Symantec, Cisco and Microsoft, where TekHub co-founder Barinder Hothi used to work.

The number of tech enterprises in the area is three times the national average, says a report by Tech City UK (www.techcityuk.com/reading). The digital economy in the UK is worth over £120 billion annually, and digital job growth is set to outperform all other sectors by 2020.