Philip Hulme

Philip William Hulme (born 1948) is the co-founder of Computacenter, one of the United Kingdom's largest computer businesses.

Career

Having graduated at Imperial College, London with a first class degree in engineering, Philip Hulme secured a Harkness Fellowship and joined the MBA Programme at Harvard Business School.[1] He then joined Boston Consulting Group becoming a Vice-President and Director in 1979.[1]

Philip Hulme, together with his former Harvard colleague Peter Ogden founded Computacenter in 1981 and expanded it into one of the United Kingdom's largest computer businesses.[1] When the Company floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1998 Philip gave much of the proceeds from the sale of his shares to charity.[2] He served as Chairman of Computacenter from 1998 to 2001.[3]

Philip is also a substantial shareholder in Dealogic, another British computer business.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Computacenter: Annual Report 1998
  2. ↑ Sunday Times Rich List 2004
  3. ↑ Computacenter: Board of Directors
  4. ↑ Cazenove leads Dealogic flotation Financial News, 14 April 2004
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