Nigel Clifford
Nigel Richard Clifford (born June 1959) was the chief executive of Ordnance Survey from June 2015 to June 2018 . He has previously held a number of chief executive and senior positions, mainly in technology companies. He was also chief executive of Glasgow Royal Infirmary NHS Trust.[1]
Early life
Nigel Clifford was born in June 1959. He has a degree from Downing College, Cambridge in Geography and an MBA from the University of Strathclyde.[2]
Career
He worked for British Telecom in a variety of roles from 1981 to 1992. He was chief executive of Glasgow Royal Infirmary NHS Trust from 1992 to 1998.[2][3] From 1998 to 2000 he was service delivery director at Cable & Wireless. He was chief executive of Tertio from 2000 to 2005.[2]
From 2005 to 2008 he was chief executive of Symbian Software[2] (a joint venture of handset vendors) which was eventually sold and integrated into Nokia in 2008.[4] He was technology director at Nokia from 2008 to 2010 and chief executive of Micro Focus International from 2010 to 2011.[2] He was CEO of Procserve – the cloud based e-commerce network from 2012 to 2015.[2]
He has held non-executive director positions at Anite, and Alliance Pharma.[5]
He was chief executive officer of Ordnance Survey, a British government-owned mapping business, from June 2015 for three years .[6]
Personal life
He is married and has three adult children.[2] His personal interests include fell-walking, running and kayaking.[7]
References
- "Nigel Clifford, Non-Executive Director". Alliance Pharma.
- "When you are head of this business, it pays to know where you are going", Robert Lea, The Times, 19 August 2017, p. 57.
- "A remote meeting of minds". HeraldScotland.com. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
- "BBC NEWS - Business - Nokia in full buy-out of Symbian". News.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
- "Regulatory News". Alliancepharma.co.uk. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
- "BUSINESS MINISTER MATTHEW HANCOCK ANNOUNCES THE APPOINTMENT OF NIGEL CLIFFORD AS THE NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF ORDNANCE SURVEY". Ordnance Survey. Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- "Why apps won't be ousting maps any time soon as Ordnance Survey chief charts a digital future". Telegraph. Telegraph. Retrieved 19 October 2015.