Nigel runs Passionate Innovation Ltd to help organisations to build an effective and continuing innovation culture. Nigel was the first chairman of the Surrey Enterprise Hub; he led on Open Innovation for Surrey and the Thames Valley Innovation & Growth Teams; he has been entrepreneur-in-residence at the University of Surrey for nine years.
After working for twenty years in engineering organisations Nigel founded software company Pixology in 1987 and later launched and sold The Digital Camera Company as the first internet-based camera retailer. Pixology developed the first general image management software for digital cameras; the first software to send pictures over satellite phones; it developed picture tagging and searching 5 years before Flickr; it was the first company in the UK to enable picture printing from retailer web sites and it was the first company in the world to develop red-eye correction in camera! The company floated on AIM in 2003 and Nigel left in 2006.
He is an entrepreneur, innovator, trained mentor and was recently a UK main stage finalist in the Professional Speaking Association “Speaker Factor” competition.
