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Dr Ian Cullimore
President, CEO and Founder

Management Team

For the past twenty years, Dr. Cullimore has pioneered future operating system and mobile network management strategies and design in the US and UK. He has been involved in many innovative technologies and start-up companies, including being the founder of the Guildford-based company D.I.P. Ltd in 1985 (where he created the world's first "pocket PC", subsequently brought to market as the Atari Portfolio), and being the original founder of Silicon Valley's Poqet Computer Corporation in 1988 (where he created The Poqet PC palmtop, backed by investment from Fujitsu). He was also the very original founder of the PCMCIA PC Card industry standards association. He has also held positions in major UK and US corporation such as Psion (one of the very first software engineers in 1983), Novell, and Xircom, Inc. in Southern California. Dr Cullimore invented the novel concept of „Informal Interfaces" in his innovative PhD thesis in Human-Computer Interaction. He has lived for many years in California, and is now resident again in the UK. Dr Cullimore is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham.

 

Rodney Hornstein,
Non-Executive Director

 

Appointed by Informal's first-round investors Hanson Capital. Rodney has a rich history as a senior executive with wide experience in general management, having been involved with the information technology industry since 1958. With a broad spectrum of management experience, technical, sales, marketing and general management, he is very familiar with the formulation and implementation of strategic, business and marketing plans. He also has extensive experience of raising capital from both venture capital sources and in the City of London for listed companies. Rodney is also Chairman of a high-technology company, Alphameric plc.

Prof. Mike Sharples BSc, PhD, FRSA,
Advisor to the Board

Mike Sharples holds the Kodak/Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Educational Technology at the University of Birmingham, UK. He leads the University’s Educational Technology Research Group, comprising some 35 staff and postgraduate researchers. The focus of the Group’s research is human-centred design of new technologies for learning, collaboration and informal interaction.
Current work includes two major projects funded by the EC Information Society Technologies programme. MOBILearn involves partners from Europe, USA and Australia, to develop “Next-generation paradigms and interfaces for technology supported learning in a mobile environment exploring the potential of ambient intelligence”. The Lab of Tomorrow is a project to design wearable and embedded technology for science learning. Professor Sharples also has research collaborations with companies and public sector organisations including Eastman Kodak (children’s use of digital imaging technology), BT (tools for conversational learning), and IBM (user engineering).