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'''Kenneth (Ken) Olisa''', [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire|OBE]] [[FRSA]] [[FBCS]] is a British businessman born (1951) of a [[Nigerian]] father and a [[United Kingdom|British]] mother. |
'''Kenneth (Ken) Olisa''', [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire|OBE]] [[FRSA]] [[FBCS]] is a British businessman born (1951) of a [[Nigerian]] father and a [[United Kingdom|British]] mother. |
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Kenneth (Ken) Olisa, OBE FRSA FBCS is a British businessman born (1951) of a Nigerian father and a British mother.
Olisa attained an MA in Natural, Social & Political and Management Sciences from Cambridge University (Fitzwilliam College).
His technology career spans over 30 years commencing with IBM from whom he won a scholarship while at Cambridge University. At IBM he held various posts in systems engineering, sales and marketing, before joining Wang Laboratories in 1981. Following a period as Marketing Director for Europe, Vice President of US Marketing and then of Worldwide Marketing, Ken was appointed Senior Vice President and General Manager of Wang Europe, Africa and the Middle East. In this role, he was responsible for the sales, marketing, support, service and administration activities within 11 subsidiaries and 92 distributors.
After leaving Wang in 1992, Ken founded Interregnum, the technology merchant bank, which he led to a £100+m IPO on AIM in 2000.
Today he leads boutique technology merchant bank — Restoration Partners based in London.
He was elected as a Fellow of the British Computer Society in 2006. In addition to his entrepreneurial/private equity activities, Ken has considerable public company Board-level experience on both sides of the Atlantic. His connection with AIM dates back to the market’s foundation. In 1995, he chaired Voss Net, the first UK ISP (Internet Service Provider) to go public and one of the first companies to list on AIM. He was later Chairman of the Board of the first Israeli company to list its shares on AIM – DMATEK. He is currently a director of Thomson Reuters; and formerly served as Director of Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) from 2008 to 2011, and of Open Text Corporation from 1998 to 2008.
As a Freeman, Ken Olisa is familiar with the workings of the City of London. Further, he is actively involved with the City of London’s governance by serving as Deputy Master of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists; where he was Master from October 2010 - October 2011. In 2003, Ken was named the BVCA/Real Deals Private Equity Personality of the Year and he was named NEDA/Sunday Times Non Executive Director of the Year for 2009. He was named one of the UK's ten most influential black businessmen in the 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 Power Lists.
Ken’s pro bono activities include Chairman of Thames Reach, a charity working to end street homelessness in London, a Director of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, a member of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, and Chairman of the Powerlist Foundation.
Ken was an inaugural member of the Postal Services Commission from 2000 to 2004 and a Governor of the Peabody Trust for a decade until 2007.