Our Team.

Simon Davies – Chief Executive Officer

Simon brings to 80/20 Thinking more than thirty years of experience as a consultant, media practitioner, writer and trainer.

He is a Visiting Senior Fellow within the Department of Management of the London School of Economics and has advised dozens of leading companies, professional organisations and government departments, including Microsoft, the UK Treasury, UNISYS, the British Medical Association and the UK Department for Work & Pensions.

Simon is regarded as one of the world’s foremost privacy experts, and is one of the pioneers of the international privacy arena. He is also a Fellow of the British Computer Society and is a Certified IT Professional (CITP).

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Dr Gus Hosein – Senior Consultant

Gus is a Visiting Senior Fellow in the Information Systems & Innovation Group within the Department of Management of the London School of Economics and Political Science. At the LSE he teaches and leads research on technology policy, and he co-directs the Policy Engagement Network. He is also a Senior Fellow at Privacy International where he leads research in international policy and regulation.

He has advised a number of international organisations, non-governmental organisations, governments and leading companies. His most recent work includes research and consultancies on consumer privacy issues and internet companies, the regulation of international financial data flows, and next generation border and identity systems.

He is also a Fellow of the British Computer Society and is a Certified IT Professional (CITP), and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce. He holds a PhD from the University of London and B.Math from the University of Waterloo.

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Dr. Ian Brown

Dr Ian Brown is a leading expert in the analysis of the implications and effect of IT systems. He is a research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University, and an honorary senior lecturer at University College London. His recent work is focused on public policy issues around information and the Internet, particularly privacy, copyright and e-democracy. He also works in the more technical fields of information security, networking and healthcare informatics.

Since 1998 Dr Brown has variously been a director of Privacy International, the Open Rights Group and the Foundation for Information Policy Research and an adviser to Greenpeace and Creative Commons UK. He has consulted for the US Department of Homeland Security, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, Allianz, McAfee, the BBC, the European Commission and the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.

Jeff Sutton - New Media & Technology Consultant

Jeff is a programmer, developer and systems analyst with a degree in Computer Science from the University of Hull. He has many years of experience in dealing with systems utilising large complex data sets for public sector organisations including the NHS, and within the Open Source community. With a proven track record in web and new media systems development Jeff is bringing exciting opportunities for future development into 80/20 Thinking.

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Thomas Dee - Operations Director

Tom has a wide-ranging background in a spectrum of business sectors including investment & private banking, recruitment, telecommunications, IT and Corporate Insurance. He has worked extensively in Europe, the Middle East and the United States and speaks several European languages.

Tom heads up 80/20 Thinking’s operations, logistics and administration.