John Chisholm

Sir John after graduating from Cambridge in Mechanical Sciences, Sir John started his career as a graduate apprentice with General Motors before joining Scicon Ltd, the computing consultancy arm of BP, in 1969. There he specialised in the application of computer systems to physical processes and he rose to be a senior manager. In 1979 he founded the start-up CAP Scientific Ltd. The company grew rapidly under his aegis as managing director to become a core part of the CAP Group plc, a diversified computer software company, which floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1995.