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ThinkingString Ltd is community of thought leaders, within which members debate, explore, explain and ponder range of issues according to their expertise. Technology, business, and the major issues that will shape our future from climate change to energy supplies to which coffee wakes us up best in the mornings.
Members are invited to participate based upon their existing expertise. No one individual is expected to be an expert in all subjects. Rather each brings their own insight into a particular area and by taking an active interest in the coverage area of another is able to present in their consultancy advice and insight that is the sum of the collective expertise of the group.
Any consultancy or other paid services offered by members will be performed independently of ThinkingString Ltd.
The views expressed by contributors on this site are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of other contributors or of ThinkingString Ltd.
Contributors
Simon Perry
Simon Perry specialises in environmental sustainability issues and their implications to business models. His particular interest is the role that IT can play in supporting transformational business society and new ways of working.
Simon has over 20 years experience in the IT industry with a career spanning IT operations, IT security, and systems architecture, He has a broad experience of international operations having been based out of Australia, North America, and England (current).
He is highly regarded for his strategic thinking regarding risks, future technology trends and the implications of technology to society.
From 1996 to 2007 Simon worked for CA, helping to build and direct the company’s newly formed information security business unit from the ground up. During that time he played a number of strategic roles, regularly providing strategic advice to C-level IT and business professionals, and working to ensure that the specific requirements of the international security markets were understood and addressed by product development.
Simon is regularly quoted and has extensive experience as a commentator with print media, radio and video/TV - having appeared on every major US TV channel. He is regarded as a highly skilled, knowledgeable and entertaining conference speaker and has keynoted many major industry conferences around the globe.
View Simon Perry’s ecological disclosure statement here.
View Simon’s blog contributions here.
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Tom Mellor
Tom Mellor
Tom Mellor is the proprietor and principal consultant of Identigrate UK. Tom initially trained as a telecoms and electronics engineer, serving in submarines with the UK Royal Navy for 15 years.
Tom has spent more than 25 years working in IT, both in consultancy and, for 10 years, as Head of IT at a UK information services business.
Tom recently spent nearly 10 years with a Top 5 software vendor, where he contributed to the setting up of that vendor’s security brand and its associated world-wide security practice, holding the posts of Principal Security Architect for EMEA and Senior Principal Consultant EMEA Security and acting as the technical lead on global Identity and Access Management deployments.
Tom is a Chartered Member of the British Computer Society and has held the CISSP certification in security management since 2002.
View Tom’s blog contributions on ThinkingString here.
Tom’s own blog may be found here.
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Fran Howarth
Fran Howarth has been an industry analyst, consultant and journalist for the past 20 years, specialising in IT and physical security, and information governance. She has recently taken an interest in new computing delivery models, based around cloud computing. Her interest in these areas began in the early years of public key infrastructures and she maintains a keen interest in cryptography.
Fran writes regularly on these and other subjects for a wide range of publications and has recently written and spoken widely on the areas of application security, identity and access management, encryption, data security, and the convergence of physical and logical security. The breadth of experience provides her with valuable insight into the actual needs of organisations regarding the use of technology for supporting their operations–rather than technology for technology’s sake.
Fran has worked for the Economist Intelligence Unit, KPMG Consulting, and a number of large and small IT analysis firms, both European and US-based. She started her career in the Far East in Japan and Hong Kong, and had lived in the Netherlands since 1995 providing her with a true international focus. Fran writes regularly for InfoToday’s Security Management Practices, IT Analysis, The Register and Silicon.com, and provides comment for many IT and business publications. She has undertaken many public speaking engagements and acted as a technology judge for SIIA’s Codie awards.
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Email Fran : fhowarth AT gmail DOT com
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Like to contribute?
The ThinkingString website serve as a public collaboration space with a range of content created and maintained by the members.
Contributing members are welcome in the following subject matter coverage areas:
• Climate change
• GHG and ecological footprinting
• Transportation (general)
• Energy generation, distribution, and storage
• Metering and related control systems
• Risk management
• Enterprise project management
• Marketing and media influence
• Technologies and processes that support a ecologically sustainable model of human society (or claim to)
• Technologies and processes that mitigate information and infrastructure security risks
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