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Crawford W. Beveridge CBE is a Scottish-American technology executive.

Beveridge, originally from Scotland, attended the University of Edinburgh, earning a B.Sc. in social science. He followed that with an M.Sc. in industrial administration from the University of Bradford.

He was given the honor of a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1995 [1] and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2016. [2]

Beveridge's business background included Hewlett-Packard, Digital Equipment Corp. and Analog Devices. [3] In 1985, he joined Sun Microsystems as vice president of corporate resources, where he stayed until 1991, [4] when he left and took the position of chief executive of Scottish Enterprise. [5]

In 2000, he returned to Sun to fill the position of executive vice president people and places and chief human resources officer. [3] He was a board member of corporations outside of Sun, including Autodesk, [6] Memec and Scottish Equity Partners. [7] He is a non-executive chairman of the board in Autodesk and as of July 2016, Beveridge owns approximately $1.9 million worth of Autodesk shares. [8]

He was executive vice president and chairman, EMEA, APAC and the Americas of Sun in 2007. [9] [10]

He chairs the Scottish government's Council of Economic Advisers. [11]

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References

  1. ↑ Wilson, Iain (13 July 1999). "An eight-year reign with its share of calamities and successes". The Herald (Glasgow) . Retrieved 3 April 2010.
  2. ↑ "The Royal Society of Edinburgh | 2016 Elected Fellows". Archived from the original on 8 October 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  3. 1 2 Schein, Edgar H. (2003). DEC is dead, long live DEC: the lasting legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation . Berrett-Koehler Publishers. p.  105. ISBN   978-1-57675-225-8.
  4. ↑ Southwick, Karen (1999). High noon: the inside story of Scott McNealy and the rise of Sun Microsystems . John Wiley and Sons. p.  19. ISBN   978-0-471-29713-0.
  5. ↑ Kanter, Rosabeth Moss (1995). World class: thriving locally in the global economy . Simon & Schuster. p.  368. ISBN   978-0-684-81129-1.
  6. ↑ "To Autodesk — and Beyond?". BusinessWeek . 12 May 2004. Archived from the original on 13 May 2004. Retrieved 3 April 2010.
  7. ↑ "Sun Microsystems Inc". BusinessWeek . Archived from the original on 29 September 2012. Retrieved 3 April 2010.
  8. ↑ "BEVERIDGE CRAWFORD Insider Trading". InsiderMole.com. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
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