Software Archives - Page 11 of 14

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

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

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

Martyn Thomas CBE

Martyn is a world-renowned expert in software engineering and cybersecurity. He graduated from UCL in 1969 with a degree in Biochemistry and forsaking a career in the law he joined UCL’s Computer Centre. Subsequent to work with South West Universities he went on to form Praxis Systems in 1983, a company renowned for its commercial use of mathematically formal software development methods.

5 October 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 Steve Furber CBE

Steve Furber was working at Acorn Computers having helped develop the BBC Micro and was searching for the follow-on product. He found that the microprocessors then on the market had a deep design flaws: they were too complex. Acorn decided to design its own microprocessor using a novel approach. Furber led the small design team. They called it the Acorn Risc Machine (ARM), later changed to the Advanced Risc Machine and it is now found in over a billion mobile devices worldwide

17 August 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

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