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As Chief Executive Officer of Formic, John is responsible for running all aspects of Formic's business.
John has more than 25 years software industry experience in sales, consulting, product development and executive leadership serving the major European markets. His most recent role was as Vice President, EMEA for Siebel Analytics, a division of Siebel Systems. Under his leadership revenues grew from less than $10M to over $100M in two years.
Prior to joining Siebel, John held executive positions at Brio Technology, Metaphor, Oracle and Lotus Development.
Sir Peter’s family investment vehicle, Stockford, is the main shareholder in Formic. The Stockford Group comprises over 40 different companies in the USA and the UK whose areas of activity include: property, media, IT and software, hotels and viticulture.
Sir Peter is well known as an industrial champion of technology businesses and has been responsible for numerous successful IT businesses. These include Micro Consultants Ltd, Quantel Ltd, UEI plc and Cray Electronics plc as well as various other well-known businesses.
Sir Peter is also one of the founders and Chairman of Classic FM, the largest commercial music station in Europe and a Director of GWR Group plc.
In addition, Sir Peter has been involved in a number of venture capital funds that have invested in over 100 start-up companies in and across the European Union and the USA.
William is Head Legal Advisor to a number of Sir Peter Michael’s investment vehicles and trading companies. He regularly leads on private equity and corporate finance deals as well as being actively involved with the commercial development of the various companies into which investments have been made.
In addition to Formic, he is a non-executive director and/or investor representative of Business Logic Systems Limited, Neverfail Group Limited, Pepper’s Ghost Productions Limited, STWS Limited, and Virtual Music Stores Limited.
