Michael Jeffrey CEO and Founder

Michael Jeffrey has more than 20 years of experience in the computer industry, specifically managing start-up companies including Sea-Change Ltd. and HCI Ltd. He received his degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of York, England in 1981. From 1983 to 1988, Michael was the technical director of Sea-Change Ltd., a start-up in the UK where he developed a 4GL language and application generator named SeaChange, and was instrumental in building the company up to 60 staff. In 1988 he left to form his own company, HCI Ltd. Over the following 8 years he developed HCI Ltd. into a small and highly profitable organisation specialising in large scale distributed Internet applications, including Internet Auctioneering and Internet Games. Michael remains a non-executive director of HCI Ltd. as well as Auctioneering Systems Consultants Ltd., a company that specialises in systems for Internet Auctioneering. In 1996, Michael formed Vita Nuova together with Dr. Charles Forsyth and John Bates to exploit the newly announced Inferno Operating System from Bell Labs.

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