A 35-year career in Information technology with international experience in varied business scenarios: start-up, turnaround, .com, market leader, all presenting different challenges and outcomes.  Deal experience in consortia bidding, trade sale and Initial Public Offering.  

An early pioneer of cloud computing and recognised by Microsoft and Google as a subject matter expert in this field with seven books published for Microsoft and two for Google. 

Now with a portfolio career he was awarded the Financial Times Non-Executive Director Diploma (2015) and is qualified to advise on General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) following completion of the GDPR Transition Programme at Henley Business School.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankbennett/ 

Portfolio: www.frankbennett.co.uk 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/fboncloud

Website: http://thedigiboard.co.uk 

Son’s Websites: http://workoutwithfrank.co.uk http://gpexercisereferral.com 

Current positions

Co-founder and Director Digi-Board Limited 

Co-founder, Inventor and Director MTR (Europe) Limited 

Deputy Chair Cloud Industry Forum

Director Federation Against Software Theft

Board Advisor to C-Digital Studio

Board Advisor to Behind Every Cloud

Independent Expert to European Union Horizon 20:20 programme

Mentor to Microsoft Startups (London)

Fellow of the RSA

Member of IoD

Member of EY Independent Director Programme

Affiliate member ICSA:Governance Institute

Financial Times NED Alumni (invitation only)