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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

Hayley Sudbury

Hayley Sudbury is founder and CEO of WERKIN, a company which helps to create, track and activate mentoring and career development programmes, supporting workplace inclusion like professional LGBT+ communities, and BAME talents. She is an active mentor of Stemettes speaker for Founders for Schools. She is an ambassador of LB Women, a network created to inspire, inform and celebrate success of professional lesbian and bisexual women. She is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and in 2017 and ’18 Hayley was on the OUTstanding Financial Times Leading 100 LGBT+ Executives list.

Ian Taylor MBE

Ian Taylor MBE was Minister for Science, Space and Technology from 1994 to 1997 in the Conservative government under John Major. He has continued to take a strong interest in science and technology during the remainder of his parliamentary career. After standing down as an MP in 2010, he has pursued his business interests with a wide portfolio of directorships and advisory roles, mostly with science and technology companies and those who invest in them.

Michael Tobin OBE

Michael Tobin is a serial technology entrepreneur, writer and philanthropist. He has a multitude of awards including an OBE for services to the digital economy in 2014. He thinks that giving back to society is incredibly important and the more success we have the more we need to remember that that success isn’t permanent and the luck we have had to achieve it needs to be recycled back into the community

Gary Turner

It was the “catastrophic” failure of his parents’ business in Glasgow when he was just leaving school that triggered Gary Turner’s lifelong drive and passion for helping small enterprises succeed. Forced to abandon his university aspirations, he had always wanted to work in computing, and a sympathetic recruitment consultant helped him get his first job.

Gary’s ability to empathise with customer problems helped him rise through the IT industry to senior positions at Pegasus, Microsoft and Systems Union. Then, in 2009, he took a step which he says “must have looked crazy”, becoming co-founder of Xero, a three-person accounting software start-up.

It proved an excellent move. As Xero’s UK managing director, Gary grew the business to a turnover of £110M by 2020, with more than 600,000 UK customers. He has also served as a mentor at TechStars London and is a seed investor in early-stage start-ups across the UK and Europe.

Geoff Unwin

Geoff Unwin helped build CapGemini into a world-leading computer services company after running Hoskyns, who he was recruited by in 1968 to work on problems for customers using time sharing computers. He turned CapGemini into an integrated global consultancy. Geoff pioneered the use of Indian programmers to develop systems off shore.

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