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Peter Cunningham

Peter Cunningham founded the INPUT market research company in California in November 1974 after starting in his native UK in IT and moving to the USA. INPUT had an unsung and important role in the classification of software products, a vital contribution to the development of the software industry. INPUT fed vital information to vendors of IT services and software, helping them hone their strategies in this fast growing area until he sold it in 2010.

8 January 2019

Bruce Bond

Bruce Bond worked as a strategy director for BT from 1989 to 1996 closely working with Lord Iain Vallance. He had worked for over 20 years in the US telecommunications industry in AT&T and the parts of the Bell network when AT&T was split up in 1982

3 January 2019

Professor Liz Bacon

Liz Bacon is a Professor of Software Engineering who helped change the school curriculum in computing and set-up more than 200 computers at school hubs across the country. In 2016 Liz became a Trustee and Director of Bletchley Park Trust, the home of British code breaking.

13 December 2018

Dr Mike Short CBE

After holding senior executive positions with Cellnet, O2 and Telefonica for 40 years, Mike joined the Department for International Trade as the department’s first chief scientific adviser in December 2017.

22 November 2018

Dr Michael Taylor

Michael Taylor has had a varied career, much of it working on sensitive systems. He did pioneering work on speech recognition for use by pilots and helped the Metropolitan Police to “join up” its databases. He went on to become the IT champion of the UK’s joint intelligence committee within the cabinet office.

13 November 2018

Sheila Flavell CBE

COO and Executive Board Director of FDM Group. Sheila also sits on the Tech UK Women in Technology Council and advises various government committees. Sheila is ranked in the top fifteen most influential women in the UK.

8 November 2018

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

Lord Kenneth Baker

Lord Kenneth Baker is a politician who has had most influence on the UK IT industry. He was appointed the first minister of IT in 1981 and spent four years promoting IT and the IT industry.

He salvaged International Computers Limited (ICL), the state-owned computer company, twice. He launched IT82, a successful awareness campaign, which coincided with the second year of the BBC Micro and its accompanying BBC TV programmes.

30 October 2018

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