Stephen Oliver

Founder director. Lead developer on commercial implementation of iLC (Generalised Algorithm for Iterative Learning Control). Sales and Marketing, in particular undertaking the recruitment of distributors in the US and Far East.

Expraxis is a business advice, consulting and interim management company. We work with academics, entrepreneurs and inventors who need help bringing new ideas to market. Member of Initiatives in Business Development since July 2005.

EACH supports families and cares for children and young people with life-threatening conditions across Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk. We provide care and support wherever the family wishes – in families’ own homes, in hospital or at one of our hospices in Ipswich, Milton and Quidenham. Trustee with specific responsibility for finance, fundraising and marketing. Treasurer. Participated in user consultation for "Closer to Home" (restructuring service delivery to achieve more community focus).

Annovation is a venture management organisation. Our mission is to create shareholder value from emerging software technologies. Annovation commercialises software-based intellectual property flowing from academic research. It generates shareholder value through finished goods sales, exit of mature software businesses and aggregation of software IP properties to establish a valuable asset base.

Air charter company (Victoria Aviation). Renewed the fleet, hired new staff and implemented new operating procedures. Test marketed scheduled services between Exeter, Luton and Manchester with very high PR visibility, 30% load factors within 2 months. Operations abandoned due to collapse of venture capital interest after 11-9-01.

Managed liaison with senior Computer Science academics from leading universities in Germany, Netherlands and Austria.

European Marketing Manager from 1995 to 1998 with the Advanced Consumer Technology Group, then the Internet Customer Unit. Oversaw the European introduction of Internet browser, developer and server products. Manager, Sales Tools from 1994 to 1995, driving European implementation of Microsoft Partner Network (a private online service supporting the Solution Provider programme). Negotiated with vendors, promoted content development, drove European marketing. Product Manager from 1992 to 1994, European co

Market research company working in finance, telecom and PC industries. Reports published by IDC, Frost & Sullivan and Datapro. Customers included SWIFT, Apple, IBM, Canon, Alcatel and Telindus.

Managing Consultant in Brussels from 1984 to 1987 in the finance and telecom industries, undertaking marketing and technical studies for customers such as Morgan Guaranty, SWIFT, the European Commission. Consultant in London from 1982 to 1984, undertaking market feasibility and product acquisition projects in the telecom and electronics sectors. Customers included Plessey, Ferranti, SWIFT, Reuters.

International Business Finance International Development

Trusts International Trade