Greg
has spent the past ten years working in the development of system-level
software in both managerial and development roles. He has spent the
past five years working in start-up software companies, where he has
gained a broad experience, including: sales and marketing; strategic
decision making; fund-raising; and intellectual property rights. He
also set up a UK subsidiary for a European software company, which he
ran for three years.
Greg is a talented and skilled programmer, particularly fond of applying cunning tricks to low-level software in order to `achieve the impossible'. His Ph.D. thesis (along such lines) was nominated for the British Computer Society's Distinguished Dissertation Award, and he is currently in the process of applying for several patents (also along such lines).
Julian holds a physics degree from Oxford University, and a Ph.D. in
cognitive psychology from the University of Edinburgh. He has spent
the last 12 years writing software professionally, with a focus on
development tools and system-level programming. His Dr. Smith's
Toolkit was (and still is!) a staple tool of programmers of Acorn
computers, the world over.
Julian is a keen cyclist and an accomplished violin, viola and baroque violin player and plays in various chamber music groups, orchestras and a local folk/rock group.
After a degree in Mathematics at Cambridge University, Richard worked in
Computer Graphics and hand-built one of the first graphics terminals to be
built in the UK. Later he moved over to Embedded Systems and designed the
architecture of an engine management system which controls about one third of
the truck and bus diesel engines sold in the USA during the past 14 years.