Richard Thomas Email & Phone Number

England, United Kingdom

England, United Kingdom

Elstead, England, Gb

Highlight is a Software-as-a-Service company. We deliver easy-to-read, real-time visualization of health and performance for Services, Applications and Data Networks. We partner with Service Providers who want to strengthen their relationships with their Enterprise customers. Currently, we’re helping over 12,000 users in 85 countries and counting, with partners including Verizon, Gamma, Claranet and Telstra. As the CEO, I lead my team towards the company's vision, driving both product strategy and expansion of the company’s presence globally. Externally, I play an active part in winning and retaining clients whilst strategizing and upgrading the services to ensure a customer-centric approach across the business. Highlight has been awarded the TechWorld award for Cloud/ Shared Services, and has grown consistently more than 25% per year for the last four years.My accomplishment as a CEO has been the phenomenal growth of our business in the last 16 years and it continuing to present a promising outlook in the future. Our product Highlight has been well received and appreciated by our clients which has lead to positive reviews about the company and its services across the industry circle. As a team our strength lies in the increasing number of large organisations which are beginning to adopt Highlight as a reliable source of information.

IT Consulting organisation providing advice on network technology, implementing and managing large data networks for large clients in the UK. Customers included Disney, Credit Suisse, BZW, Bank of England, Allied Dunbar, Vodafone and the Arts Council of England.

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Worked a number of shows as an Interop NOC Team member, helping to stage, build and run the network which linked hundreds of exhibitors together, and to the outside world, for Interop conventions in Paris, Atlanta, and Las Vegas. Being a part of this team is a truly unique experience, impossible to describe accurately - huge time pressure, new technology, large quantities of caffeine, and working over a few chaotic days within a team built from some of the best networking heads in the world. Roles in the NOC Team are loosely-defined at the best of times but as well as helping specify and build the Network Management platform and diagnostic tools, I hung fibre cables from cherry-pickers 40ft in the air, gave guided tours to show attendees, and talked exhibitors through the stages of taking part in the world's largest show network. Oh, and helped protect a six-foot, stuffed Pink Panther from being kidnapped by enemy agents. As I said, you had to be there.

Data Communications was a US-based magazine covering the IT and Datacomms industry - particularly good at deep-dive analysis of technology and products. After submitting some articles on WAN Performance I was invited to be a contributing editor, and over the next few years had the chance to do some interesting work on their behalf including in-depth tests of technologies like RMON, Network Management platforms and Internetworking Technologies - plus op-ed pieces, and reviews of the Service Provider market. I really enjoyed working with the team at DataComm ; however, CMP bought the publication and merged it with a less-technical parent magazine. Still in touch with several of the people who worked there, though !

Communique was a startup in the 'data network' market which in 1987 was just emerging and starting to grow rapidly. The internet didn't really exist at that time (not in the public eye anyway) and at this stage, the networking industry consisted of Novell, 3Com, IBM and a few smaller companies. Communique grew organically and extremely quickly but unfortunately suffered 'growing pains' and failed after two years.