1990s Archives - Page 22 of 25

Sir Kenneth Olisa

Sir Ken Olisa was born in Nottingham to a white mother and an absentee Nigerian Father. Today he is Lord Lieutenant of Greater London, a partner in a privately-owned merchant bank focused on technology and a philanthropist focusing on the homeless.

25 May 2018

Charles Hughes

Charles Hughes, is one of the best known and highly regarded managers in the UK information technology business, with a career stretching back to 1967, much of it spent in ICL, the UK’s one-time computer flagship. He has also been a Government adviser, at critical times in the development of the UK IT industry. He was BCS President 2005/6

27 April 2018

Dr Roger Johnson

Past President of both the BCS, 1992 to 1993, and the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies, 1997 to ’99, Roger was Honorary Secretary for the International Federation for Information Processing 1999 to 2010. In 2009 he became a Fellow of Birkbeck, after 23 years as Dean of the Faculty of Social Science.

6 April 2018

Ernest Morris

In the mid-Seventies Ernest became the third President of the Computing Services Association, then known as CSA. Ernest was President of the BCS, the British Computer Society 1987-88. He is a past Chairman of the Computer Conservation Society and between 1993 and 1997 was Chairman of UKERNA, the body responsible for the academic and research network of JANET.

13 February 2018

Sir Nigel Shadbolt

Sir Nigel Shadbolt is Professor of Computing Science at the University of Oxford and Principal of Jesus College. He is Chairman of the Open Data Institute which he co-founded with Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 2012.
He is also a Visiting Professor in Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. During the course of his career he has made significant contributions to the fields of Psychology, Cognitive Science, Computational Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Semantic Web and Web Science.

6 February 2018

Alan Pollard

Alan had an Army career spanning 32 years and rose to the rank of Brigadier. After the Army Alan spent the next 10 years as an IT Consultant working with a number of multinational blue-chip companies such as EDS, Boots, British American Tobacco, H&W Shipyards, BAE Systems & Walkers Foods. He was President of the BCS 2008-09.

30 January 2018

Bob Harvey

After an early career at Ferranti Bob joined the Welcome Foundation as a Systems & Programming Manager. Subsequently he worked for Unilever for 22 years & the Children’s Charity Barnardo’s for 15 years as IT Director. He was elected BCS President 2012 – 13

30 January 2018

David Mann

David Mann, is a former Master of the Worshipful Company, a past President of the British Computer Society, and was the fourth employee of Logica, where he went on to become its Managing Director and Deputy Chairman. From 1995 David has held non-exec roles in the capacity of chairman or director for a number of diverse organisations operating worldwide. He was President of the BCS 1994-95.

31 October 2017

Geoff McMullen

AFter 6 years at UNIVAC Geoff was recruited by Shell where he stayed for neraly 20 years. He was BCS President 2001- 02 and has also been Managing Director then Chief Executive of UKERNA. Geoff was recruited by the Cabinet Office as a High-Risk team leader for Gateway reviews and carried out some 20 between 2006 and 2010.

7 September 2017

Sir George Cox

Sir George Cox had his first job in IT at the Molins Machine Company helping to develop its first IT department. He then worked for Urwick Orr and Diebold before co-founding the Butler Cox consultancy which was taken over by Computer Sciences in 1990. He went on to turn around P-E International and sell it and turn around the European services business of Unisys.

24 August 2017

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