Stephen Dawson is non-executive chairman of ECI based in London. An economics graduate from Exeter University, Stephen had fifteen years’ business management experience at Sema, Logica, Reuters, a start-up company and BTG prior to joining ECI in 1985. He became a Managing Director of ECI in 1990 and retired to a non-executive capacity in 2003. Since then he has also been: chairman of Ovum PLC which floated on the LSE in 2006; co-founder and chairman of Impetus Trust
www.impetus.org.uk, the UK pioneer of venture philanthropy; and co-founder and chairman of Jacana Venture Partnership, which invests in the development of venture capital managers in Africa.