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Ian Richmond

Ian Richmond

Research Director
Geographic Location: United Kingdom
Focus Area: IT Strategy

Ian Richmond has over 35 years experience in I.T. with a background covering consulting, procurement, management of computer services, hardware development and system development.

He was a student apprentice with Telephone Manufacturing whilst at Brunel University. His early career was communications R&D for Microwave Associates, procurement for Directorate of Strategic Communications MOD(PE), Head of Telecommunications for the ARC, and a design authority on the Tornado AI radar for Marconi Avionics.

He moved to the European Research Institute for Ireland and carried out studies on parallel computing for the EU Esprit Programme; the Irish / Greek consortium became EU folk law. Returning to England he was Software Technology Manager for CAP Industry setting up the £3 million Fortune Alvey project and the 7 million ECU Sapphire Esprit project with a direct team of 20 and a virtual team of 100 across Europe. He was MD of Microport International plc, a start-up distribution company, selling Unix software for the Intel chip set across EMEA

He moved to Gartner as a Director for Consulting and worked across the world for multinationals in a wide range of sectors including finance, petrochemicals, airlines, and government. Principle achievements were to create strategies for the application of I.T., quantification of business benefit and design of communications and computer system architectures.

Appointed Vice President he managed the Market and Business Strategy Practice and then the Emerging Markets Practice covering CEE, South Africa and Middle East. He was the "Mr Fix-it" for team issues, client problems and problem projects.

Ian received a First Class Honours Degree from Brunel University in Electrical (Electronics) Engineering. He is a Chartered Engineer and a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology. His spare time is spent flying a Cessna Cardinal 177RG, skiing and keeping a house built in c1620 standing.

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