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Richard Christou

Richard has a background of three different cultures that he’s worked with, the telecommunication supply side, he worked for ICL as it then was and he’s worked extensively for Fujitsu and particularly in the services sector.

21 June 2019

Frank Jones

Frank Jones during his long career as an executive in IT service companies was known as the outsourcing man. Outsourcing gave financial directors back control: control they had lost to IT managers. But there were drawbacks. He also grew businesses by acquisitions. Frank has experience with the different cultures of UK and continental European companies as well as Asian ones.

5 March 2019

Philip Virgo

Philip Virgo worked for Standard Telephones and Cables, and International Computers Limited (ICL). He then worked for the Wellcome Foundation advising on the introduction of IT systems. An active member of the Conservative Party from University he was trusted as a user to help put together Conservative Party policy on IT. He helped form the Parliamentary IT Committee (PITCOM) in the late 1970s to create links between the industry and politicians of all types.

15 June 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

ICL

ICL (International Computers Limited) existed as a commercial entity and brand from 1968 to 2002;…

5 September 2017

Bill Ellis

Bill Ellis started work in the IT industry in BTM, before it merged to form ICT. He supported clients through the adoption of new systems. He worked with insurance companies for ICT and ICL, competing against IBM, the dominant vendor. He moved to the start-up Software Sciences which and helped build it into a £100 million-turnover company with 2,000 people. Bill was on the council of the Computing Services Association for six years.

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

Ken Barnes

Ken Barnes co-founded one of the first software companies in the UK: Systems Programming Limited (SPL) in 1963.

It started with three programmers and within two years was employing 150 people. It eventually became the largest software company in Europe.

In the early 1980s he was approached by the new Minister for Information Technology, Kenneth Baker, to run a year-long campaign promoting the uses of IT in the UK: IT82.

28 July 2017

Ninian Eadie

Ninian Eadie spent most of his career in the IT industry in ICL after working for LEO Computers and the Post Office. He saw the good times and the bad in ICL as it gained traction after he joined it in 1969. He ran ICL’s European business which, at its height, had about 7% of the Europe’s IT market outside the UK. He was in charge of successfully selling off many of the companies ICL disposed of as it shrank.