Nigel Deighton

Current

Wireless Industry Advisor, Facilitator and Consultant at Freelance

Past

On at Sabbatical
Vice President and Research Director at Gartner Inc.
Mobile Solutions Portfolio Marketing Manager at Digital Equipment Corporation

Mobile I.N. Program Manager at Digital Equipment Corporation
Product Manager/Consultant at Digital Equipment Corporation
Product Manager at Digital Equipment Corporation Annecy
European Software Manager at Mitel Corporation
Peripheral Software Manager at Mitel Telecom Limited
Sofware Engineer at Mitel Corporation
Software Engineer at Ferranti PLC

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Education

IMD (International Institute for Management Development) - Business Programs
The University of Hull
Leeds Metropolitan University

University of New Brunswick

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Recommended

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Telecommunications

Nigel Deighton’s Summary

My goal has always been to cultivate knowledge and innovation and then apply it. I have a wide ranging experience of information and communications technologies as well as complex product development and solutions marketing. I enjoy the challenge of prospecting for something new and then sharing it.

Wide experience of mobility and wireless telecommunications strategy and technology issues, from supplier and end user perspectives. Strength in emerging technologies which will significantly impact mobile communications over the next five to ten years.
Strong communications and presentation skills, acquired via presentations at global events, on television, to the press and daily interaction with clients.
Broad experience of information technology capabilities ranging from embedded real time, through client server to emerging SOA.
Capacity to manage product development teams (H/W, S/W, marketing and sustainability) as well as product related requirements gathering, specification, prioritisation, investment and business planning.
Passionate about digital media, convergence and how in particular mobility and emerging technologies will enable new types of social networking.

Nigel Deighton’s Specialties:

Technologies which will disruptively enable mobility (e.g. 4G,WiMAX, Ultra Wide Band, 802.xx, ZigBee etc) and which will disruptively enable mobile device usability (e.g. precise location technologies, presence, small scale fuel cells, light emitting polymers, organic LEDs, haptics, wearables, polymer logic and smart clothing etc).
Strong links into the wireless user, service provider and equipment supplier communities.

Nigel Deighton’s Experience

Wireless Industry Advisor, Facilitator and Consultant

Freelance

(Wireless industry)

June 2005 — Present (4 years 2 months)

During the last few years I have been involved in a number of short and long term term contracts for IT and wireless communications companies related to technology, strategy, financing and business development issues. I have also become involved in advising/coaching a number of pre-startup technology companies around the world.

I am a member of the advisory board of GoLife Mobile Corporation (http://www.golifemobile.com/) a pioneering mobile lifestyle company. I am also an advisor to Lifera Networks.
On

Sabbatical

(Wireless industry)

June 2004 — June 2005 (1 year 1 month)

A welcome opportunity to spend time with the familly and make progress on renovating our old farmhouse.
Vice President and Research Director

Gartner Inc.

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Wireless industry)

January 1994 — June 2004 (10 years 6 months)

I spent over 60 percent of my time advising end-users, vendors and service providers on mobile technology and business issues in an independent fashion, often reviewing strategic planning/new product specifications, purchasing decisions and advising on vendor selection. As a V.P. & Research Director at Gartner responsibilities included presentations at seminars and on-going research which was regularly published on the Gartner web site and in client oriented publications. My particular focus was on mobile and wireless communications, mobile business and emerging mobile technologies and their impacts on the industry. My work involved extensive travel and regular contact with vendors, users and service providers at director level and above. During my 10 years at Gartner I consistently predicted future wireless trends and regularly provided keynote presentations at external events.
Mobile Solutions Portfolio Marketing Manager

Digital Equipment Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Wireless industry)

January 1991 — January 1994 (3 years 1 month)

Responsible for Digital's strategy for the mobile communications market. Key roles involved the identification and
selection of third party products to support mobile business goals, identifying strategic product areas and customers and developing a solutions architecture. Reporting directly to the V .P .of the Telecommunications Business Group. Helped grow revenues from $10 million to $95 million, major mobile projects included Optus, DlNET, Televerket Radio, Smartone, SIP, Tokyo Digital Phone and others. Responsible for following emerging technologies (e.g. personal communications) closely to identify new markets. Spent 70% of my time working with major mobile account teams and customers developing client oriented implementation and migration strategies. Reason for leaving, I was head hunted by the Gartner Group in late 1993 and joined in January 1994.
Mobile I.N. Program Manager

Digital Equipment Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

May 1987 — January 1991 (3 years 9 months)

Responsible for Digital's Mobile Intelligent Network program, managing annual investments of several tens of millions of dollars in engineering development through a group of product managers. Prepared several, customer paid, white papers addressing implementation strategies for I.N. Major wins; Orbitel OSM HLR, AUC and EIR; Vodafone selecting Digital's SS7 product for their in-house analogue HLR development; McCaw Cellular selecting Digital as their senior I.T. partner; Cantel selecting a Digital HLR for their cellular network; Tokyo Digital Phone selecting Digital to build customer care and billing. These projects ranged in value from $500K to over $20million.
Product Manager/Consultant

Digital Equipment Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

November 1983 — May 1987 (3 years 7 months)

Head hunted by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1984 as a principal consultant working on the development of an ECMA compliant computer to PABX interface. Later responsible for development of intelligent communications controllers and several major projects with European PTTs
Product Manager

Digital Equipment Corporation Annecy

(Telecommunications industry)

1983 — 1986 (3 years)
European Software Manager

Mitel Corporation

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

1983 — 1984 (1 year)

Promoted to manager of software development for peripheral and line interfaces for the SX2000 and shortly before leaving became the European peripheral software manager for all of Mitel's switch developments, managing a team of 10 engineers.
Peripheral Software Manager

Mitel Telecom Limited

(Telecommunications industry)

1979 — October 1983 (4 years)
Sofware Engineer

Mitel Corporation

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

October 1981 — 1983 (2 years)

Joined Mitel at their European headquarters as a software engineer, initial responsibilities were for the development and support of line interface software for Mitel's range of analogue PABX systems.
Relocated to Canada for one year in 1982 to supervise the development of European line interfaces for the new digital PABX under development at that time. Supported the introduction of this switch (the SX2000) into the U.K. market gaining B.T. type approval in a record three months
Software Engineer

Ferranti PLC

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 1976 — September 1981 (5 years 2 months)

I was hired as a real-time systems programmer working on FM1600B, D and E computer systems used in defense systems. I was later transferred to writing the floating point mathematic libraries for the Coral compiler on the F100L, the world's first 16 bit microprocessor. I spent nearly a year in Manchester on re-location to help Ferranti's commercial system's group develop a steel plant process control system based upon the Argus 700 and PMS. I spent several months at their Bracknell site developing a track while scan radar system and before leaving worked again in Manchester with Ferranti's chief scientist on new machine concepts, while being part of a group reviewing the various strawman, woodman, ironman and stoneman proposals that eventually became the Ada programming language.

Nigel Deighton’s Education

IMD (International Institute for Management Development) - Business Programs

Diplmoa , International Management , 1992 — 1993
The University of Hull

M. Sc. , Operational Research , 1975 — 1976
Leeds Metropolitan University

B.Sc. Hons , Computational Science , 1972 — 1975
University of New Brunswick

B.Sc , General Science , 1968 — 1971