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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

Mike Lynch OBE

Mike Lynch founded Autonomy in Cambridge which swiftly became Europe’s largest software company selling its expertise in analysing large data sets. Autonomy was later sold to Hewlett-Packard. In 2012 Lynch formed Invoke capital which believes that entrepreneurs should focus on the technology and not have to manage the sales force or the customer sales desk, which Invoke does for them.

4 August 2017

Sir Robin Saxby

Sir Robin Saxby was brought in to run ARM in 1991 after it was spun out from Acorn Computers. He devised the business plan which grew the company from a handful of people into an enterprise sold for £24 billion in 2016. ARM only designed Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISC) and licences out the manufacture and use of the designs to others. ARM processors power the mobile world.

4 August 2017

Geoff Shingles CBE

Geoff Shingles CBE joined Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) UK when it had three people in 1965. DEC was a Boston-based minicomputer company mostly then serving the technical and scientific communities. In his first year the PDP-8 was launched. It was the first commercially-successful minicomputer with over 50,000 sold worldwide during its life. He was soon MD of the UK and stayed with DEC until he was 55 after which he split his time between IT start-ups.

3 August 2017

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

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

Eben Upton CBE

Dr Eben Upton is world renowned for inventing the bare-bones computer named Raspberry Pi which is based upon the ARM processor. One of his fondest memories at school was of programming the BBC Micro, and the Raspberry Pi model numbers follow those of the BBC Microcomputer series.

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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Sir Nigel Shadbolt

Mike Lynch OBE

Sir Robin Saxby

Geoff Shingles CBE

Iann Barron

Philip Hughes CBE

Sir Peter Gershon

John Carrington

Eben Upton CBE

Richard Holway MBE