The Speakers
Ray Anderson co-founded Bango in 1999 after realising that the convergence of the Internet with the ubiquity of mobile phones could open up huge opportunities for content and service providers. In 2005, he led the successful floatation of the company, and continues to build and steer the Bango team forward.
In 1988, Ray established IXI which created the industry standard network GUI – X.desktop. IXI was an early leader in the creation of the web. It sponsored the first ever WWW conference at CERN and shipped the world's first mercial web browser. In 1993 the company merged with SCO and then floated on NASDAQ. Ray held senior executive roles in SCO, and played a key role in transforming the company from a small "PC Unix" company to the industry standard Intel Unix provider.
Ray is an entrepreneur, innovator and investor with 20 years experience. He was named "Technology Entrepreneur of the Year" in February 2006 and in September 2006 was given a special award for outstanding contribution to the mobile entertainment industry at the ME Awards. A member of "The Cambridge Angels", Ray was a founding investor in a variety of growing companies including TeamStudio, Tenison Technology, Electronic Share Information (sold to E*Trade), Aspective, Trigenix (sold to Qualcomm), RE5ULT (82ASK), Shortfuze, Midentity and other technology businesses.
