21Net

Henry Hyde-Thomson is an entrepreneur and the founder of a number of technology businesses including Anglo Scientific, 21Net, L3Technology, MicrotestMatrices, Phagenesis, On Sun Systems and Phasor Solutions. Before starting Anglo Scientific, a private equity firm specializing in start-ups, Henry was the founder and chairman of Speech Machines, the developer of Internet based speech recognition systems acquired by Philips in April 2001. Previously Henry invented and developed “Unified Messaging” (integrated voice/fax/email messaging) and was awarded US and international patents for this concept. Henry has over 25 years experience in the high-tech business and has spent much of his career splitting his time between the UK and the USA. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Henry graduated from Oxford University with a first-class honours degree in Physics, and after two years research in astrophysics, he then qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Peat Marwick Mitchell (now KPMG). In 1989/90 Henry was a Research Fellow in the Department of Computing at Imperial College, London.