Gary founder of Global Web Limited (an Internet for business solutions company based in 1994) and founder of Patterns Limited (research and technology company). During his career Gary has carried out work for both public and private organisations including research work at the European Space Agency (ESA) as well as within international defence organisations. Gary is a graduate of University of Birmingham (BSc), University of Nottingham (MSc) and University of Aberdeen (PhD). Gary has been the chair at several international conferences and published over 20 research papers on various topics including: object-oriented systems, neural computing, knowledge representation, software re-engineering and building large scale web-based systems.