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Sherry Coutu CBE

Sherry Coutu CBE is a serial entrepreneur, former CEO, Angel investor and Non-executive director based in Cambridge, UK and originally from Canada. In 2015 Sherry was voted one of the most inspiring women in Europe and named one of the most philanthropic entrepreneurs in the UK.

2 November 2018

Alistair Fulton

Alistair has been involved with the Triad group of companies since 1978, moving from Senior Consultant, through Chief Executive to his current position as a non-exec director. He currently represents the UK ICT industry on the Singapore and Philippines British Business Councils.

1 November 2018

Lord Iain Vallance

Lord Vallance had an illustrious career in first of all the GPO and then what became British Telecom, both a public and a private organisation, and also a networking organisation.

20 September 2018

David Cleevely CBE

A telecoms & wireless expert, a serial entrepreneur, an advisor to Government on both a National & Local level, a businessman with strong links to academia who vigorously promotes networking, collaboration and the City of Cambridge. David is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology & a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering

19 June 2018

Sir Bryan Carsberg

Sir Bryan Carsberg started work as an accountant in accountancy partnerships and then moved to become professor of accounting at the London School of Economics. While there and subsequently at Manchester he started advising the government. He was the first choice to head Oftel, the telecommunications regulation organisation set to in the mid 1984 when BT was privatised to supervise it.

1 August 2017

John Carrington

John Carrington worked in the Post Office when it was a state-owned monopoly on first the postal side and then the telecommunications side. He was appointed as the founding managing director of Cellnet, BT’s mobile telecoms arm, in 1983. He helped European partners to develop the GSM standard which became and world de-facto standard. He moved to run BT’s US operations. He then had a variety of jobs in telecommunication including working for Cable and Wireless.

28 July 2017

Sir Peter Bonfield

Sir Peter Bonfield worked in the electronics component, computing and telecommunications sides of IT. He was invited in 1981 to become operations manager of ICL, the state-owned computer company rapidly running out of cash designing a new range of mainframes. In 1984 ICL was taken over by STC and Sir Peter became MD. In 1996 Sir Peter moved to BT and helped to lead it through a transformation from a utility company into a growth company

14 July 2017

John Leighfield CBE

John Leighfield CBE was a pioneering IT user, applying the technology offered by vendors to the benefit of users, particularly in manufacturing. He started in IT with Ford in Dagenham in what would now be called systems analysis. He joined Plessey in 1965 and was on the board of Plessey as the head of IT. John moved to British Leyland in 1972, working in BL Systems, later renamed as ISTEL. It was privatised and John and others succeeded in a management buyout.

14 July 2017

Christopher Curry

Chris Curry was a central figure in the Cambridge phenomena which was Sinclair, Acorn and ARM. He started on the production line at PYE, worked for the Royal Radar Establishment and eventually arrived at Sinclair Radionics in 1966. He then helped set up Acorn Computers with its first product the Atom. Acorn was approached by the BBC and devised the BBC Micro, launched in 1980 it sold 3 million.

14 July 2017

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Sherry Coutu CBE

Alistair Fulton

Lord Iain Vallance

David Cleevely CBE

Sir Bryan Carsberg

John Carrington

Sir Peter Bonfield

John Leighfield CBE

Christopher Curry