Philip Hulme

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Sir Philip William Hulme (born 1948) is the co-founder of Computacenter, one of the United Kingdom's largest computer businesses.

Computacenter company

Computacenter plc is a European company that provides computer services to public- and private-sector customers. It is a UK company based in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.

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Career

Having graduated at Imperial College, London with a first class degree in engineering, Hulme secured a Harkness Fellowship and joined the MBA Programme at Harvard Business School. [1] He then joined Boston Consulting Group becoming a Vice-President and Director in 1979. [1]

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Hulme, together with his former Harvard colleague Peter Ogden founded Computacenter in 1981 and expanded it into one of the United Kingdom's largest computer businesses. [1] When the Company floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1998 Hulme gave much of the proceeds from the sale of his shares to charity. [2] He served as Chairman of Computacenter from 1998 to 2001. [3]

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Hulme is also a substantial shareholder in Dealogic, another British computer business. [4]

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He was knighted in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to technology and philanthropy. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Computacenter: Annual Report 1998
  2. ↑ Sunday Times Rich List 2004
  3. ↑ Computacenter: Board of Directors
  4. ↑ Cazenove leads Dealogic flotation Financial News, 14 April 2004
  5. ↑ "No. 61608". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 June 2016. p. B2.
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