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David Mann

David Mann, is a former Master of the Worshipful Company, a past President of the British Computer Society, and was the fourth employee of Logica, where he went on to become its Managing Director and Deputy Chairman. From 1995 David has held non-exec roles in the capacity of chairman or director for a number of diverse organisations operating worldwide. He was President of the BCS 1994-95.

31 October 2017

Geoff McMullen

AFter 6 years at UNIVAC Geoff was recruited by Shell where he stayed for neraly 20 years. He was BCS President 2001- 02 and has also been Managing Director then Chief Executive of UKERNA. Geoff was recruited by the Cabinet Office as a High-Risk team leader for Gateway reviews and carried out some 20 between 2006 and 2010.

7 September 2017

Sir George Cox

Sir George Cox had his first job in IT at the Molins Machine Company helping to develop its first IT department. He then worked for Urwick Orr and Diebold before co-founding the Butler Cox consultancy which was taken over by Computer Sciences in 1990. He went on to turn around P-E International and sell it and turn around the European services business of Unisys.

24 August 2017

Sir Anthony Cleaver

Sir Anthony Cleaver spent his career in IBM UK starting in 1962 and rising to chairman and chief executive until his retirement in 1994. He worked with Lloyds Bank to develop the world’s first variable amount cash dispenser installed in 1972. In the early 1980s he gained international experience with IBM’ Europe, Middle East and Africa operation, moving back to the UK in 1982 when he assured the successful launch in the UK of the IBM PC

4 August 2017

Mike Lynch OBE

Mike Lynch founded Autonomy in Cambridge which swiftly became Europe’s largest software company selling its expertise in analysing large data sets. Autonomy was later sold to Hewlett-Packard. In 2012 Lynch formed Invoke capital which believes that entrepreneurs should focus on the technology and not have to manage the sales force or the customer sales desk, which Invoke does for them.

4 August 2017

Jim Norton

Professor Jim Norton is a Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering, an external member of the board of the UK’s Parliament[sic] Office of Science and Technology, a governor of Coventry University, a Visiting Professor of electronic engineering at Sheffield University, a board member and trustee of the Foundation for Information Policy Research, FIPR. He was President of the BCS 2011-12

4 August 2017

Sir Robin Saxby

Sir Robin Saxby was brought in to run ARM in 1991 after it was spun out from Acorn Computers. He devised the business plan which grew the company from a handful of people into an enterprise sold for £24 billion in 2016. ARM only designed Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISC) and licences out the manufacture and use of the designs to others. ARM processors power the mobile world.

4 August 2017

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