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Dr Nicola Hodson

Dr Nicola Hodson is an technology industry leader with extensive experience in business and digital transformation. In June 2023, she ranked highly in Computer Weekly’s list of the 50 most influential people in UK technology. She was appointed as UK Chief Executive, IBM UK and Ireland in January 2023, where she is responsible for the company’s business operations.

26 May 2026

Dr. Mike Burrows

After studying for a PhD in electrical engineering, Mike was offered a job at DEC’s Systems Research Centre in Palo Alto. There he worked on the Alta Vista search engine, which became the most popular search engine in the 1990s. After DEC, Mike moved on to jobs at Microsoft and Google, where he developed a distributed lock server, still in use today

29 April 2025

Trudy Norris-Grey

Trudy trained as an accountant, working for Vodafone predecessor Racal, and then DEC as a financial analyst. She worked her way up to become DEC’s first female board member. She moved on to Kodak and then became Vice President at Oracle. She became the first female leader of a major tech company in the UK in 2005 when she headed Sun Microsystems UK.

15 April 2025

Supercomputers and the Met Office: at the forefront of weather and climate science

Main image: The Cray XC40 supercomputer. The Met Office currently has three XC40s, installed in…

28 June 2023

Technology in the 90s

Paving the way for a new millennium In the last decade of the 20th Century,…

28 August 2022

The Takeover of the NatWest Banking Group by The Royal Bank of Scotland

By Stephen Baker

20 March 2022

Gary Turner

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 became co-founder of Xero, a three-person accounting software start-up. 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.

15 July 2021

Sarah Bond

Sarah Bond is an IT executive who helped invent unlimited data packages in the mobile phone industry before moving on to lead Microsoft’s gaming business development team.

2 January 2020

Dr Andrew Herbert OBE

Dr Andrew Herbert OBE retired in 2011, after a long and eventful career in IT. He has been a lecturer and researcher, an entrepreneur, a manager of SMEs, and finally Director and then Chairman of Microsoft Research EMEA.

26 July 2019

Simon Peyton Jones

Simon Peyton Jones has dedicated his career to functional programming, and was the designer of the Haskell functional programming language. In 1989 he became Professor of Computing Science at Glasgow University, and is now a principal researcher at Microsoft. He has just been appointed chair of the new National Centre for Computing Education.

22 March 2019

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