Henry Hyde Thomson

Chairman

Henry Hyde Thomson is an entrepreneur and is the founder and chairman of Anglo Scientific, 21Net, Phasor Solutions MMIC Solutions.

Before starting Anglo Scientific, a private equity firm specialising in start-ups, Henry was the founder and chairman of Speech Machines, the developer of Internet-based speech recognition systems acquired by Philips in April 2001.

Previously Henry invented and developed ‘Unified Messaging' (integrated voice/fax/email messaging) and was awarded US and international patents for this concept. Henry has over 20 years' experience of high technology businesses and for much of his career has divided his time between the UK and the USA.

Before becoming an entrepreneur Henry graduated from Oxford University with first class honours in Physics, and after two years research in astrophysics then qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Peat Marwick Mitchell (now KPMG). In 1989/90 Henry was a Research Fellow in the Department of Computing at Imperial College, London.