Education
University of Leeds
BSc Hons, Computational Science 1977-01-01 - 1980-01-01Dover Boys Grammer School
Bachelor of Science (BSc), 1970-01-01 - 1977-01-01Work Experience
RChain Publishing Cooperative
Current
RChain Publishing Cooperative
Kingston University, London
Current
Kingston University, London
Pi4 Technologies Foundation Ltd
Current
Pi4 Technologies Foundation Ltd
Electric Miles
2022-10-01 - 2024-05-01
Electric Miles
RChain Cooperative
2018-07-01 - 2022-08-01
RChain Cooperative
Estafet
2017-03-01 - 2019-05-01
Estafet
Thoughtworks
2016-03-01 - 2017-02-01
Thoughtworks
Cognizant
2008-02-01 - 2015-12-01
Cognizant
Hattrick Software Ltd
2005-12-01 - 2008-02-01
Hattrick Software Ltd
NRI Group
2005-06-01 - 2006-02-01
NRI Group
Skills
Summary
2019 - Board member RChain USA 2018 - Chair RChain Europe 2017 - CTO Estafet 2016 - Thoughtworker 2015 - Chief Strategy Officer of ZDLC, a Cognizant funded business unit www.cognizantzdlc.com 2012 - Managing Director/CEO of ZDLC, a Cognizant funded business unit www.cognizantzdlc.com 2011 - Appointed Visiting Professor in Computer Science at Kingston University 1996 - present: Hon Research Fellow Napier University 2005 - present: CEO Pi4 Technologies Foundation Ltd (yes two at one time) 2010 - 2012 European Technology Officer Cognizant 2007 - 2010 Chief Architect ASP Cognizant 2004 - 2006: Chair W3C Web Services http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/cg/ 2003 - 2009: Co-chair W3C Web Services Choreography http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/chor/ 2005 - 2007 CTO Hattrick Software Ltd (yes two at one time) 2004 - co-founder of the REWERSE network of excellence http://www.rewerse.net/ 2009 - co-author SOA Manifesto 2002 - 2005: Chief Scientist and co-founder Enigmatec Corp Ltd. 1997 - 2002: CTO and Chairman and founder of the board SpiritSoft Ltd 1995 - 1997: Architect and independent consultant to Nomura Research Institute on project HOODINI Specialties: * Standards from Web Services to rules to languages. * Architecting large scale distributed systems. * Thinking outside of the norm and being inventive. * Raising VC money (currently over $20M since 2000).