Nigel Clifford

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Nigel Richard Clifford (born June 1959) is the President of the Royal Geographical Society, the Deputy Chair of the UK's Geospatial Commission, and Operating Executive for Marlin Equity Partners.[1][2] He has previously held a number of chief executive and senior positions, mainly in technology companies. He has also been chief executive of Great Britain's Ordnance Survey and Glasgow Royal Infirmary NHS Trust.[3]

Early life[]

Nigel Clifford was born in June 1959. He has a degree from Downing College, Cambridge in Geography and an MBA from the University of Strathclyde.[4]

Career[]

He worked for British Telecom in a variety of roles from 1981 to 1992. He was chief executive of Glasgow Royal Infirmary NHS Trust from 1992 to 1998.[4][5] From 1998 to 2000 he was service delivery director at Cable & Wireless. He was chief executive of Tertio from 2000 to 2005.[4]

From 2005 to 2008 he was chief executive of Symbian Software[4] (a joint venture of handset vendors) which was eventually sold and integrated into Nokia in 2008.[6] He was technology director at Nokia from 2008 to 2010 and chief executive of Micro Focus International from 2010 to 2011.[4] He was CEO of – the cloud based e-commerce network from 2012 to 2015.[4]

He has held non-executive director positions at Anite, and Alliance Pharma.[7]

He was chief executive officer of Ordnance Survey, a British government-owned mapping business, from June 2015 for three years .[8]

He is currently President of the Royal Geographical Society.[9]

Personal life[]

He is married and has three adult children.[4] His personal interests include fell-walking, running and kayaking.[10]

References[]

  1. ^ "Nigel Clifford".
  2. ^ "Team".
  3. ^ "Nigel Clifford, Non-Executive Director". Alliance Pharma.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g "When you are head of this business, it pays to know where you are going", Robert Lea, The Times, 19 August 2017, p. 57.
  5. ^ "A remote meeting of minds". HeraldScotland.com. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
  6. ^ "BBC NEWS - Business - Nokia in full buy-out of Symbian". News.bbc.co.uk. 24 June 2008. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
  7. ^ "Regulatory News". Alliancepharma.co.uk. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
  8. ^ "BUSINESS MINISTER MATTHEW HANCOCK ANNOUNCES THE APPOINTMENT OF NIGEL CLIFFORD AS THE NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF ORDNANCE SURVEY". Ordnance Survey. Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
  9. ^ "Royal Geographical Society - Meet our new President, Nigel Clifford".
  10. ^ "Why apps won't be ousting maps any time soon as Ordnance Survey chief charts a digital future". Telegraph. Telegraph. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
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