John was previously with the Trafalgar House Group for 22 years, where he held a number of senior management positions becoming Managing Director of Allied Business Systems, a leader in Open Systems, where he introduced several pioneering technologies to the UK. In 1989 he became Chairman of ABS Computers Ltd, Shortlands Computing Services and Multibus Ltd. John was Chairman of Integrated Services Ltd and Nordic Integrated Services AB until he sold these businesses to IBM in March 96.

 

In January 97 John became non-executive Chairman of Adaptive Ltd, a company which was bought out from the Abbey National Bank. In November he joined Webdevelopment in London as non-executive Chairman, a company that  floated at £13 million.  More recently has been appointed to the board of Planet 3 Publishing, Grid Xitek, Enseal Systems and IEA in Cardiff - more on these organisations can be found in this web site.

 

John masterminded the acquisition of ElectricMail by Kewill plc and helped Nexus Electronics with their sale as well as Micrologic’s sale to ARM.

 

Additionally John has helped a significant number of companies raise capital to enable continued growth.

 

Current Directorships include The Electric Software Company Ltd as well as a number of companies mentioned before, and Chairmansip of Broadreach Neworks, and Signum Electronics Ltd.

 

John is also a member of The Worshipful Company of Information Technologists, a Freeman of the City of London, a fellow of the British Computer Society where he sits on the council of the Elite Group.

 

He is a Fellow of The Institute for the Management of Information Systems (IMIS) is the as well as a non-executive Director of a number of companies and is on the 3i Independent Directors Program and is on the Technical Advisory Board of Albany Ventures.