1970s Archives - Page 13 of 17

Jane Tozer MBE OBE

Jane Tozer MBE OBE has had three phases to her career in IT: an early stage of over 13 years with IBM; a middle period as CEO of a software development start-up; and a third phase with a portfolio of non-executive directorships in the private and public sectors.

6 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 Kenneth Baker

Lord Kenneth Baker is a politician who has had most influence on the UK IT industry. He was appointed the first minister of IT in 1981 and spent four years promoting IT and the IT industry.

He salvaged International Computers Limited (ICL), the state-owned computer company, twice. He launched IT82, a successful awareness campaign, which coincided with the second year of the BBC Micro and its accompanying BBC TV programmes.

30 October 2018

Dr Louise Bennett

Dr Louise Bennett is an IT Security Expert with more than 30 years’ experience in the industry. Her first experience of computing was modelling weather using London University’s Atlas computer.

She worked at the Ministry of Defence as an operations analyst and one of her first roles involved programming in BASIC and Fortran to develop a flying training programme for the RAF.

In the late 1980s she became R&D Director as well as IT Director and moved to Thorn Security where she led early work in biometrics with fingerprint, hand, iris and voice recognition and also worked at AEA Technology (the privatised Atomic Energy Establishment).

As the chair of the security forum at the British Computer Society, she has an excellent bird’s eye view of what’s going right, and wrong, with the nation’s security

16 October 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

Ray Harsant

Having qualified as a Chartered Accountant in London, Ray spent some time working in South America. In the late 60s Ray joined Hoskyns initially as Company Secretary then in 1972 he was promoted to the position of Financial Director. Hoskyns became a market leader in computer services in the UK and a premier software consultancy in Europe. Ray spent 25 years there.

18 September 2018

Professor Frank Land

One of the pioneers of early commercial computing who worked on the Lyons Electronic Office (LEO) and became the first Professor of Informatics in the United Kingdom.

28 August 2018

Dr Richard Sykes

Richard worked worldwide for ICI for a period of 26 years and between 1993 & 1999 was their Group Vice -President, IT. Since that time Richard has worked for a number of organisations as an independent strategic analyst, advisor and assurer in information technology & business process management & sourcing

9 August 2018

Paul Barry-Walsh

Paul Barry-Walsh is an IT entrepreneur and investor. After leaving IBM in 1986 Paul founded Safetynet; then in 1996 Netstore; and in 2001 he founded the Fredericks Foundation, which has become one of the UK’s leading micro finance organisations.

In 2005 alongside Paul & Peter Sedgwick, he founded Frank Investments. This business was established to provide long-term investment management services to a partnership of investors. Paul has made over private 30 investments since 2000 and typically invests between £250-£ 500k each year.

15 June 2018

Philip Virgo

Philip Virgo worked for Standard Telephones and Cables, and International Computers Limited (ICL). He then worked for the Wellcome Foundation advising on the introduction of IT systems. An active member of the Conservative Party from University he was trusted as a user to help put together Conservative Party policy on IT. He helped form the Parliamentary IT Committee (PITCOM) in the late 1970s to create links between the industry and politicians of all types.