Software Services Manager at Canonical Ltd.
Tonbridge, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Software Services Manager at Canonical Ltd.
- Advisory Board at amphiLab Limited
- Consultant at Gardeviance
- Past
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- Chief Operating Officer / Chief Technology Officer at Fotango Ltd, a subsidiary of Canon Europe
- Director & Consultant at Hermes Technology Ltd
- Project Manager / Senior Consultant at Quantum Consulting Ltd
- Education
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- Glasgow Caledonian University
- University of Cambridge
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Simon Wardley’s Summary
An innovative strategist who combines significant levels of hands-on business, technical and management expertise in achieving business turnaround and strong revenue growth in high technology and software markets. An accomplished communicator with considerable international speaking experience to expert audiences, he is proficient at crafting and delivering persuasive messages and has robust experience in building and maintaining alliances and strategic partnerships. Simon has an established record of success in business and innovation in a variety of situations and has demonstrated a capability for managing change in both start-up and multi-national environments.
Simon Wardley’s Specialties:
Business strategy, innovation and organisational structure, IT strategy, product development, team management, risk management, project management, finance, planning and R&D incl. fabrication technologies, web 2.0, enterprise 2.0, open source, project methodologies and utility computing.
Simon Wardley’s Experience
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Software Services Manager
Canonical Ltd.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CAJ; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2008 — Present (1 month)
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Advisory Board
amphiLab Limited
(Printing industry)
July 2008 — Present (4 months)
A new funded start-up company in the field of interactive books and printed electronics. I involved in getting the business, planning, financial and operational activities up and running.
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Consultant
Gardeviance
(Management Consulting industry)
October 2007 — Present (1 year 1 month)
I undertake a number of private consultancy projects in the area of innovation & commoditisation, cloud computing, enterprise 2.0 and web 2.0 along with article writing, advisory board work, mentoring and public and private speaking engagements.
Example activities:
• Advisory board member for Enterprise 2.0 Summit, Web 2.0 Expo and Web 2.0 Strategies.
• Spoke internationally at 12 major events and was consistently rated as one of the best speakers.
• Worked with different companies on the development of process, open source and enterprise 2.0 strategies.
• Author of several articles published in The Butler Group Review. -
Chief Operating Officer / Chief Technology Officer
Fotango Ltd, a subsidiary of Canon Europe
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2000 — August 2007 (6 years 10 months)
When I originally joined Fotango, the company was not profitable, had technically poor systems and dwindling cash reserves. It was not expected to survive more than six months. As the CTO I was responsible for first its technical transformation, a major factor in its acquisition by Canon, and then subsequently as the COO the overall running of the business. Under my leadership Fotango became, and remained at the date of my leaving, a highly profitable company which had created significant cash reserves and annual revenues in excess of $6M. p.a.
In seven years, I transformed Fotango from a “collapsing” company into a highly innovative, well organised and profitable company at the forefront of web 2.0 and with considerable expertise in web services, agile methodologies, open source technologies, collaborative enterprise techniques, virtualisation and utility computing. -
Director & Consultant
Hermes Technology Ltd
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1998 — October 2000 (2 years 10 months)
IT consultancy (security and software development) for a number of companies include Harrods, EMI, Merrill Lynch and the finance sector.
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Project Manager / Senior Consultant
Quantum Consulting Ltd
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 1993 — January 1998 (4 years 3 months)
Mixture of strategy, business analysis and application development work. Managed a number of projects across Europe for Fritolay Intl (part of the PepsiCo group).
Simon Wardley’s Education
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Glasgow Caledonian University
MSc (dsc), Energy & Environmental Management, 1991 — 1993
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University of Cambridge
MA, Natural Sciences (PART II - Genetics), 1987 — 1990
- Activities and Societies:
- Karate, Judo, Chess, Varsity Newspaper, Footlights, Union.
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