1980s Archives - Page 22 of 23

Iann Barron

Iann Barron nurtured three generations of computer designers in the UK at Elliott Brothers, Computer Technology (CT) and InMos.

He designed a computer at Elliott’s for the RAF and left to form his own company, CT, in 1965, raising private capital to fund it, one of the first to do so in the world.

He was forced out of CT in 1975 and after a spell as a consultant joined the InMos venture of the National Enterprise Board designing the transputer microprocessor and advising Motorola, Texas Instruments and Fairchild and also telling Intel what was wrong with their microprocessors.

1 August 2017

Philip Hughes CBE

Philip Hughes CBE co-founded Logica. The systems development company pioneered the use of minicomputers in commercial and government applications. After leaving Logica, Philip became a full-time artist.

1 August 2017

Sir Peter Gershon

Graduating from Cambridge with a First in mathematics was a perfect start to an accelerated graduate career which brought Peter to the board of ICL. This was a springboard for Peter to move to the board of GEC and ultimately as the first Chief Executive of Government Commerce where he worked to identify where the government could save £6bn, which he did in 2003 producing the Gershon Review in 2005.

1 August 2017

Charlie Ross

Charles Ross co-founded the Real Time Club of pioneers in real time computing over 50 years ago. He spent his life as a serial entrepreneur in the IT sector. He helped to develop one of the first online systems and pioneered computer typesetting. He helped get the European Union interested in funding Quantum computing developments. He was also involved in getting IT more widely appreciated by helping to found publishing alliances

28 July 2017

Ken Barnes

Ken Barnes co-founded one of the first software companies in the UK: Systems Programming Limited (SPL) in 1963.

It started with three programmers and within two years was employing 150 people. It eventually became the largest software company in Europe.

In the early 1980s he was approached by the new Minister for Information Technology, Kenneth Baker, to run a year-long campaign promoting the uses of IT in the UK: IT82.

28 July 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

Ninian Eadie

Ninian Eadie spent most of his career in the IT industry in ICL after working for LEO Computers and the Post Office. He saw the good times and the bad in ICL as it gained traction after he joined it in 1969. He ran ICL’s European business which, at its height, had about 7% of the Europe’s IT market outside the UK. He was in charge of successfully selling off many of the companies ICL disposed of as it shrank.

28 July 2017

John Handby

John Handby has directed the IT strategies and operations of IT users in the public and private sector. He has worked in the Royal Mail, National Power and Glaxo SmithKline, among others. He was Chief Executive of CIO Connect, an organisation set up to enable chief information officers to talk about the issues they were facing. He had a formative role in the introduction of clinical systems in the NHS.

28 July 2017

Victor Basta

Victor Basta is a maestro of mergers and acquisitions in the IT sector. He says he is somebody who helps other people through deals rather than doling deals himself.

In 1986 he came across the IT industry through his activities in mergers and acquisitions working in New York for the General Motors Treasurer’s Office. Between September 1989 and November 2001 he worked at Broadview International an then became Managing Director of Magister, a boutique investment bank based in London and San Francisco. His first deal was selling LoveFilm to Amazon for around $350 million, now Amazon Prime Video.

28 July 2017

Richard Holway MBE

After being described as (one of) the UK’s Leading IT Analysts for nearly three decades, Richard Holway now prefers the title “Trusted Influencer”. He is now progressing a “pluralist” career after selling his company of 20 years, in late 2006, and using a lifetime’s networking experience to help other companies where he has joined the board as a NED. In 2009 he established TechmarketView LLP.

27 July 2017

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Iann Barron

Philip Hughes CBE

Sir Peter Gershon

Charlie Ross

Ken Barnes

John Carrington

Ninian Eadie

John Handby

Victor Basta

Richard Holway MBE