
Founder, Tento
United Kingdom

Founder, Tento
United Kingdom
IT entrepreneur, currently excited by a new identity management and authentication technology - see the website.
Always interested in meeting potential partners, investors, employees and, of course, customers.
London Business School MBA with many years experience in business development and project management.
Business development, internet, entrepreneur
(Privately Held; Computer & Network Security industry)
January 2008 — Present (2 years 3 months)
Tento™ has developed a new technology with applications in security, identity management and transaction authentication.
Tento™ Technology underpins all our products. It is a simple but highly effective way of encrypting and de-encrypting images. This technology is currently patent pending.
Tento™ licenses its products to companies in all market sectors.
(Internet industry)
2008 — 2008 (less than a year)
(Internet industry)
January 2007 — January 2008 (1 year 1 month)
Acquired land in S.W.France, obtained planning permission for eco-friendly houses. Hired architect, battled with planning authorities, invited tenders, appointed sub-contractors, contract management, budgetary control, risk management.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BT; Telecommunications industry)
June 2006 — December 2006 (7 months)
Managing vendors engaged in supplying OSS systems to BT's 21CN project.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2005 — December 2005 (11 months)
Howard managed an email infrastructure upgrade for NTL, one of the UK's leading telcos, on behalf of Openwave.
Openwave are the world's leading supplier of industrial-strength messaging systems.
www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds13032.html
www.openwave.com/us/news_room/press_releases/2004/20040115_opwv_ntl_0115.htm
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(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
October 2003 — October 2004 (1 year 1 month)
Howard managed an email migration project for Virgin Net, one of the leading UK Internet Service Providers. This high-profile project involved migrating Virgins account base from an Openwave platform to Critical Path.
Virgin users now benefit from world-class antispam and antivirus filtering, webmail and other benefits. The new service has received much customer acclaim.
He also managed a number of broadband-related projects for Virgin Net.
www.virgin.net http://www.cp.net/news/pr-040713.jsp
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(Information Technology and Services industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year )
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1996 — July 1999 (2 years 11 months)
H and a partner founded The Personal Email Co to develop and provide the UK's first webmail service in the same year that Hotmail started in the USA. Too innovative for VC's at the time, we raised private equity and went on to provide Freeserve's first webmail offering (FSmail) with over 500,000 users. Sold to a larger telecoms company and moved on.
www.sun.com/desktop/success/personalmail.html
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(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)
August 1994 — August 1997 (3 years 1 month)
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
1990 — 1994 (4 years )
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
1989 — 1990 (1 year )
MBA , 1985 — 1987
BSc(Econ) , Economics , 1969 — 1972