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)