Non-Executive Chairman
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Ian Ritchie is the non-executive Chairman Computer Applications Service, and Krotos and completed his term of office as the Chairman of Iomart plc in August 2018. He founded OWL in 1984, which pioneered hypertext application development (a forerunner to the world wide web) selling the company to Panasonic in 1989. Since then he has been involved in over 40 start-up high-tech businesses. Ian has a degree in Computer Science from Heriot-Watt University (1973) and holds Honorary Doctorates from Robert Gordons, Abertay, Heriot-Watt and Edinburgh Universities. He writes a monthly column in Scottish Business Insider magazine and his TED talk has been viewed over 500,000 times.
