Executive profiles

Andy Harter, Chief Executive Officer
Andy Harter has a BA and PhD in Computer Science from Cambridge. Since then he has held executive roles in industrial research and at the AT&T Cambridge Laboratory where he was responsible for many hardware and software projects, including VNC. Dr Harter is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of The Institution of Engineering and Technology, a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Visiting Fellow of Cambridge University Computer Laboratory and a Fellow of St Edmund's College Cambridge.

Tristan Richardson, Chief Technology Officer
With a BA in Computer Science from Cambridge and an MPhil in Computer Speech and Language Processing, Tristan Richardson joined the AT&T Cambridge Laboratory in 1992 and started work on VNC. He was the principal architect of the system, having designed the protocols and written reference implementations for Unix and Java.

James Weatherall, Head of Systems Engineering
With a BA and PhD in Computer Science from Cambridge, James Weatherall joined the AT&T Laboratory in 1997 and worked on VNC, producing the first VNC server implementation for the Microsoft Windows platform. Dr Weatherall is a Member of the British Computer Society.

Jon Hoskin, Head of Software
Jon studied Mathematics Warwick and Cambridge before earning a DPhil from Oxford. He has extensive technical and commercial experience particularly spanning the embedded, mobile and Internet spaces. He has held CTO positions at Insignia Solutions, ANT and Intuwave and has been responsible for creating many innovative and successful products and technologies.

Lily Harter, Head of Operations
With a career spanning both legal and financial professions, Lily Harter brings considerable experience to a wide range of company activities. She is responsible for company operations, including accounting and finance, sales, marketing, public relations and human resources.

Andy Hopper, Chairman
Andy Hopper is Head of the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge and previously headed up the AT&T Cambridge Laboratory. He is well known for successfully forging academic and industrial activities in all aspects of communications technology. Professor Hopper is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Head of the Computer Laboratory at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was awarded a CBE for services to the computer industry.

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