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- John_Leighfield abstract "John P. Leighfield CBE is a British IT industry businessman and was previously chairman of RM plc from 1993 until 2011.Currently John Leighfield is a Director of Getmapping, the UK's leading supplier of aerial photography, mapping products and data hosting solutions. He is also Chairman of Governors of the WMG Academy for Young Engineers (a UTC). John Leighfield was born in Oxford, England, and was a pupil at Magdalen College School. He then read Greats at Exeter College, Oxford. He has an MA from Oxford, Honorary Doctorates from the University of Central England in Birmingham (DUniv), from De Montford University (DTech), from Wolverhampton University (DTech) and from the University of Warwick (DLL). He is a Fellow of the RSA, RGS, CMI, IET and BCS.Leighfield has pursued a career in IT, initially in the 1960s with the Ford Motor Company where he did pioneering work on computer systems in finance and manufacturing, Plessey (where he was Head of Management Services) and British Leyland (from the early 1970s). In 1987, he led an employee buy out of Istel Ltd, which he had established as a subsidiary of British Leyland. In 1989, the company was subsequently taken over by AT&T. He was the Executive Chairman of AT&T Istel until April 1993.In November 1993, he joined RM (a British educational computing company) as a non-executive director and in October 1994 became the non-executive Chairman. He has been a non-executive director of a number of other companies as well, including Halifax plc and Synstar plc (of which he is also non-executive Chairman).Leighfield was President of the British Computer Society (1993–4) and the Computing Services and Software Association (1995–6). He is President of the Institute for the Management of Information Systems (IMIS), a UK professional association. He has been a member of the Council of University of Warwick, Chairman of the Advisory Board, and an honorary visiting professor at the Warwick Business School. He was Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Council at the University of Warwick from 2002 to 2011. In the Queen's Birthday Honours 1998 Leighfield was appointed as a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. In 2006 Leighfield was awarded the Mountbatten Medal.In 2005, he was appointed as a non-executive director of Getmapping plc and Master of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists.Leighfield lives in Oxford. He was formerly Chairman of the Governors of Magdalen College School. He is Chairman of the Oxford Philomusica Advisory Council, the Resident Professional Orchestra at the University of Oxford. In his spare time, he has an interest in maps, especially of Oxfordshire. He is married with children and grandchildren.".
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- John_Leighfield comment "John P. Leighfield CBE is a British IT industry businessman and was previously chairman of RM plc from 1993 until 2011.Currently John Leighfield is a Director of Getmapping, the UK's leading supplier of aerial photography, mapping products and data hosting solutions. He is also Chairman of Governors of the WMG Academy for Young Engineers (a UTC). John Leighfield was born in Oxford, England, and was a pupil at Magdalen College School. He then read Greats at Exeter College, Oxford.".