Re: UKNM: uk cyber elite

[Sean Phelan]

How about David Bowie?  He is a brit, www.bowie.com ; first major (single?)

released solely on the internet; first artist to securitise his back catalog

(not an internet thing but hyper-innovative).  His own ISP with some kind of

content/connectivity tie-up. Undoubtedly one to watch.


Looking back over the last few years, Peter Dawe and Chris Batterham for

creating Pipex and Cliff Stanford <spelling?> for creating Demon.


Although MFS is US-owned, a lot of its worldwide expansion (fibre in

most European cities, purchase of UUnet, many undersea gigabits) was

driven by Brits... I can look out the names if you want.


Looking back again, Sir Brian Carsberg as head of Oftel was instrumental

in ending the BT/Mercury duopoly in 1992. That is why the UK has gigabits

of internet capacity to the US, while most European countries only have

a few tens of megabits.


Up-and-coming names are a bit sensitive, of course.  There are a couple

of VC funds that are just starting to make waves.


Of course, do you count Brits living in the US?  Or non-brits living

in the UK?


Cheers

Sean (who has never whined about VC, used the word "Leverage", does not

have "Solution" or "Concept" in his company name, and has never knowingly

offered stock options in his biz plan or washroom. Elitism didn't used

to be this easy).



>This week's Time magazine lists what it calls the world's Top 50 Cyber

>Elite - "technology's movers and shakers".

>

>Oddly, the only UK people in the list are, um, dance music band Massive

>Attack. Anyone care to nominate some names from over here that *should*

>have made it in?

>

>This is ultimately for the purposes of a news story, but I promise I

>won't quote anyone.

>

>Giles

>---

>Giles Turnbull / Technology Editor / Press Association

>

t: +44 171 963 7112 / e: gilestpa [dot] press [dot] net

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