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John Bates is a British computer scientist, and businessman. He has started several technology companies in the UK. Bates is CEO at ECM/DMS vendor SER Group.[1][2]

Education

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Bates received his PhD in mobile and distributed computing (computer science) at the University of Cambridge computer laboratory in 1993.[3] His PhD advisor was Jean Bacon.

Career

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Earlier on, he was a lecturer and Fellow of St Catherine's College, Cambridge until 2000.[4] At Cambridge, he led several research projects, often in collaboration with industry, and designed and taught courses covering operating systems, distributed systems, software engineering and mobile computing.

Bates is an entrepreneur in the software industry, focusing on areas such as event-driven architectures, smart environments, business activity monitoring and Internet of Things.[5][6]

In 2011 Wall Street and Technology magazine named him as one of the "10 innovators of the decade".[7] In 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015, Institutional Investor named him in its "Tech 50" of disruptive technologists.[8][9][10][11]

Bates has published 2015 a book entitled Thingalytics: Smart Big Data for the Internet of Things.[12]

Apama

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Bates was co-founder, President and CTO of Apama, the pioneering streaming analytics company.[13]

IONA Technologies

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Bates has been CTO of IONA Technologies Limited since December 2009 and its Executive Vice President since 2011.

Terracotta, Inc

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He has been CTO of Terracotta, Inc. since October 2013. He was a member of the Technology Council at C5 Capital Ltd.[14][15]

Progress Software

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He was a vice president of Progress Software since 3 May 2011 and served as its Divisional general manager.[16] He was CTO of Progress Software Corp. from 2009 to 2013[17] and its Decision Analytics Business Line Leader from 2012 to 2013.[18]

Software AG

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He was the chief marketing officer at Software AG (alternate name Software Aktiengesellschaft) from 2014 to 2015. He was CTO of Intelligent Business Operations & Big Data at Software AG since October, 2013.[19] He served as Head of Industry Solutions at Software AG.

PLAT.ONE Inc.

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He served as CEO of PLAT.ONE Inc. from October, 2015[20] to February, 2017.

TestPlant / Eggplant

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He has been the CEO of TestPlant Limited from February, 2017 to January, 2021. [21]

Sage

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Since May 2019 Bates is an Independent Non-Executive Director and is a member of the Remuneration Committee and the Nomination Committee.[22]

SER Group

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Bates was named CEO in January 2022. [23][24]

References

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  1. ^ "Dr. John Bates new CEO". www.sergroup.com. 25 January 2022. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  2. ^ "Stühlerücken bei SER: Dr. John Bates wird CEO, Holger Kliebe CFO - ECMguide.de". www.ecmguide.de. 31 January 2022. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  3. ^ "Department of Computer Science and Technology: PhD Theses". www.cl.cam.ac.uk.
  4. ^ "Dr. John Bates - Insider". Business Insider.
  5. ^ "Dr. John Bates - Authors & Columnists". Wall Street & Technology. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  6. ^ IoT - Cloudtalks with Dr. John Bates from Testplant, retrieved 15 December 2022
  7. ^ "Top 10 Innovators of the Decade for Capital Markets, Wall Street & Technology, 2013".
  8. ^ "The Tech 50: The Difference Makers". Institutional Investor. 23 July 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
  9. ^ "The 2013 Tech 50: John Bates". Institutional Investor. 16 July 2013. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
  10. ^ "The 2014 Tech 50: John Bates". Institutional Investor. 8 July 2014. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
  11. ^ "The 2015 Tech 50: John Bates". Institutional Investor. 27 July 2015. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
  12. ^ Suzanne Kattau (5 May 2015). "Smart Big Data Analytics for the Internet of Things". RTInsights.com.
  13. ^ "Apama's Bates appointed CTO of Progress - The TRADE". www.thetradenews.com. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  14. ^ "Thinkalytics - About The Author".
  15. ^ "Dr. John Bates, staff of Testplant Inc".
  16. ^ "Posts by John Bates - Progress Blogs". Progress.com. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  17. ^ "Progress Software appoints John Bates as Chief Technology Officer (CTO)". progress.com. 10 December 2009. Retrieved 10 December 2009.
  18. ^ "Video: John Bates, Chief Technology Officer, Progress Software Corp". Institutional Investor. 24 July 2012. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  19. ^ moneycab (22 July 2014). "Software AG: John Bates auch 2014 unter den "Tech 50" des Magazins Institutional Investor". Moneycab (in Swiss High German). Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  20. ^ "PLAT.ONE, Pioneer in Enterprise IoT, Appoints Dr. John Bates as CEO". PRWeb. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  21. ^ Technologies, Keysight. "Eggplant Blog". blog.eggplantsoftware.com. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  22. ^ "Board of directors - Company Information | Sage UK". www.sage.com. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  23. ^ "Dr. John Bates new CEO". www.sergroup.com. 25 January 2022. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  24. ^ "Stühlerücken bei SER: Dr. John Bates wird CEO, Holger Kliebe CFO - ECMguide.de". www.ecmguide.de. 31 January 2022. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
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