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Simon Segars

Simon Segars joined the computer industry as a graduate trainee with the telecoms company STC in 1986. He joined ARM, the designer of reduced instruction set computer microprocessors in 1991 as the 16th employee in the most junior role as a design engineer. He rose as ARM as it became a world-leading vendor of IT microprocessor design handling customer relations, sales, acquisitions and became CEO in 2013. He advises the UK government on military innovation. He piloted the takeover of ARM by the Japanese SoftBank Group and is a broad member of the SoftBank board.

Interview with Sir Andrew Hopper

Andy Hopper studied computer science at Swansea under Professor David Aspinall then did his PhD in Cambridge where he worked on the Cambridge Ring.  His LAN company came to the attention of Acorn Computers and was taken into Acorn in 1979.   Hopper was appointed managing director of the Olivetti Cambridge Research lab in 1986.  As MD he helped more than 10 venture operations become independent companies under the benign eye of Olivetti.  On the closure of the lab Hopper focused on his professorship at Cambridge where he developed a strategy to get over 200 ventures from Cambridge University into the market.