Michael O'Regan

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Michael Rowan Hamilton John O'Regan OBE (born c. 1947) is a British businessman and the co-founder of RM plc.

O'Regan graduated with an economics degree from Cambridge University.

In 1973, with Mike Fischer (who had a physics degree from Oxford), O'Regan co-founded Research Machines, a British microcomputer and then software company for the educational market. He was an executive director until 1992, when he became a non-executive director. He has been a non-executive director of a number of other companies as well, including the Oxford Technology Venture Capital Trusts.

O'Regan was awarded an honorary degree by Oxford Brookes University in 1999. [1] With RM co-founder, Mike Fischer O'Regan was awarded an honorary degree by the Open University in 2002. [2]

O'Regan was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2000 Birthday Honours, for services to Education, Training and Economic Development in South East England. [3] [4] He was a governor of Oxford Brookes University and of The Oxford Academy Trust, and a Deputy Lieutenant of Oxfordshire from 2003 until 2014 when he and his wife Jane moved to Wiltshire.[ citation needed ]

O'Regan is the founder and Chair of Hamilton Trust which ran Maths Year 2000 for the British government, and co-founded early years charity Peeple.

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References

  1. ↑ Oxford Brookes information [ permanent dead link ]
  2. ↑ "Honorary Graduates of the Open University 2002" (PDF). Sesame. The Open University. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
  3. ↑ United Kingdom: "No. 55879". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 19 June 2000. p. 12.
  4. ↑ "Queen's Birthday honours". Times Higher Education. TSL Education Ltd. 23 June 2000. Retrieved 9 April 2009.(subscription required)


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