Ian Ritchie   Advisory Group

Ian Ritchie was founder and CEO of OWL Ltd., and OWL Inc, developers of the world’s first commercial hypertext product. Ian successfully guided the growth of this business until its eventual sale to Panasonic.

He has been involved in many successful technology companies, including Voxar (sold to Barco), Orbital (sold to Sopheon) and Digital Bridges, and is still on the board of several technology companies.

He was a Director of Scottish Enterprise (1999-2005), the Scottish Institute for Enterprise, and Connect, and is a Member of the UK’s Small Business Investment Taskforce. Ian was awarded a CBE in the 2003 New Years Honours list for services to enterprise and education.

Themes of Interest

Semantic Web, Web 2.0

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