Founder, Tento
United Kingdom
- Current
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- Founder at Tento
- Past
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- Founder at Tento
- Project Manager, House Construction, France at Not disclosed
- OSS Vendor Manager at BT
- Education
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- London Business School
- London School of Economics and Political Science
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Howard Yates’s Summary
IT entrepreneur, currently excited by a new identity management and authentication technology - see the website.
Always interested in meeting potential partners, investors, employees and, of course, customers.
London Business School MBA with many years experience in business development and project management.
Howard Yates’s Specialties:
Business development, internet, entrepreneur
Howard Yates’s Experience
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Founder
Tento
(Computer & Network Security industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
Tento™ has developed a new technology with applications in security, identity authentication and marketing.
Tento™ Technology underpins all our products. It is a simple but highly effective way of encrypting and de-encrypting images. This technology is currently patent pending.
Tento™ licenses its products to companies in all market sectors. -
Founder
Tento
(Internet industry)
2008 — 2008 (less than a year)
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Project Manager, House Construction, France
Not disclosed
(Internet industry)
January 2007 — January 2008 (1 year 1 month)
Acquired land in S.W.France, obtained planning permission for eco-friendly houses. Hired architect, battled with planning authorities, invited tenders, appointed sub-contractors, contract management, budgetary control, risk management.
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OSS Vendor Manager
BT
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BT; Telecommunications industry)
June 2006 — December 2006 (7 months)
Managing vendors engaged in supplying OSS systems to BT's 21CN project.
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Project Director
Openwave
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2005 — December 2005 (11 months)
Howard managed an email infrastructure upgrade for NTL, one of the UK's leading telcos, on behalf of Openwave.
Openwave are the world's leading supplier of industrial-strength messaging systems.
www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds13032.html
www.openwave.com/us/news_room/press_releases/2004/20040115_opwv_ntl_0115.htm
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Programme Manager
Virgin.net
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
October 2003 — October 2004 (1 year 1 month)
Howard managed an email migration project for Virgin Net, one of the leading UK Internet Service Providers. This high-profile project involved migrating Virgin’s account base from an Openwave platform to Critical Path.
Virgin users now benefit from world-class antispam and antivirus filtering, webmail and other benefits. The new service has received much customer acclaim.
He also managed a number of broadband-related projects for Virgin Net.
www.virgin.net http://www.cp.net/news/pr-040713.jsp
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Operations Director
mynet
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year )
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Founder/Director
The Personal Email Co
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1996 — July 1999 (2 years 11 months)
H and a partner founded The Personal Email Co to develop and provide the UK's first webmail service in the same year that Hotmail started in the USA. Too innovative for VC's at the time, we raised private equity and went on to provide Freeserve's first webmail offering (FSmail) with over 500,000 users. Sold to a larger telecoms company and moved on.
www.sun.com/desktop/success/personalmail.html
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IT Director
Energis
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)
August 1994 — August 1997 (3 years 1 month)
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Business Development Director
BT plc
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
1990 — 1994 (4 years )
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GM, IT Strategy & Planning
BT
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
1989 — 1990 (1 year )
Howard Yates’s Education
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London Business School
MBA , 1985 — 1987
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London School of Economics and Political Science
BSc(Econ) , Economics , 1969 — 1972
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Howard Yates’s Groups:
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Information Security Community -
Club Energis
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