Our Team » Henry Hyde-Thomson

Henry is an entrepreneur and is the founder and chairman of Anglo Scientific, 21Net, Phasor Solutions, Phagenesis, Microtest Matrices and On Sun Systems, and serves on the board of L3Technology.

Before starting Anglo Scientific, Henry was the founder and chairman of Speech Machines, a 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 with high technology businesses, both in 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.