Energising and Transforming ICL
Andrew Boswell ICL Chief Technology Officer
Energising and Transforming ICL
Andrew Boswell ICL Chief Technology Officer
ICL is changing. From the hardware and software vendor you once knew to the exciting global IT services company you see today.We focus on making our customers' businesses more competitive and effective by the use of IT. Already we enable our customers to touch the lives of millions of people every day, soon this will be billions of people.
What vision has driven us to do this? What influences our decisions? How are we making our offerings more relevant for organisations who need to adapt to the evolving networked world?
The world is still changing too.
About Andrew Boswell:
As Chief Technology Officer of the ICL Group and ICL Board member, Andrew Boswell is particularly concerned with the impact of technology on people's lives at work, at home and at play.
Andrew's role is to ensure ICL has the right technical capabilities, and access to the right technologies, to be the best European IT services company. It is also his responsibility to ensure ICL is properly understood as a leading technology company. He is responsible for ICL's network of alliances with technology companies and research establishments.
In the wider business community Andrew is chairman of the InterForum Government Group. He is also a board member of the Federation of the Electronics Industry.
Andrew was Chairman of the UK National Information Infrastructure Task Force, which worked with the Department of Trade and Industry on IT issues. It is in this capacity that he has helped shape the National Grid for learning, and the Government's Information Society Initiative, and the IT for ALL programme.
Andrew is in constant demand as a speaker, both at home and abroad, on the fundamental issues facing the IT industry and the impact of the Information Revolution on society as a whole.
Andrew graduated from Oxford where he gained a degree in Natural Sciences [Nuclear Physics]. He joined ICL initially as a computer performance analyst, then moved into computer systems development in Manchester. He led the system design team for Series 39 in the early 1980's and was appointed head of VME software development in 1986. He directed a major programme of quality improvement for VME, for which he was given an ICL Gold Excellence Award for Quality. He also introduced the Open VME development.
Moving to Bracknell in 1991, Andrew created OPENframework as ICL's systems architecture, and established ICL's capabilities in Multimedia, Internet, Smart Card, Process Management and Multivendor Systems Integration.
Andrew lives in Crowthorne with his wife, Ann. They have three children.
September 1999
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