Henry Hyde-Thomson

Bio

An entrepreneur and is the founder and chairman of Anglo Scientific, 21Net, Phasor Solutions and MMIC Solutions. Before starting Anglo Scientific, was the founder and chairman of Speech Machines, a developer of Internet-based speech recognition systems acquired by Philips in April 2001. Previously, invented and developed 'Unified Messaging' (integrated voice/fax/email messaging) and was awarded US and international patents for this concept. Has over 20 years' experience with high technology businesses, both in the UK and the US. Before becoming an entrepreneur, graduated from Oxford University with first class honours in Physics, and after two years research in astrophysics then qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Peat Marwick Mitchell (now KPMG). In 1989/90 was a Research Fellow in the Department of Computing at Imperial College, London.