Richard
Holway@Farnham
Consulting
Holway's Hotviews (OLD
Index)
Richard Holway is considered to be one of the UK's leading ICT analysts. He provides his personal services to clients via Farnham Consulting.
In 1986, Richard Holway founded Richard Holway Ltd - the publishers of the annual Holway report, SYSTEMHOUSE, and the acclaimed Hotnews service. Richard Holway Ltd was sold to Ovum in 2000 where Richard served as a director of Ovum plc. He was closely involved in Ovum's successful IPO onto AIM in March 2006. Ovum plc was acquired by Datamonitor for c£42m in Dec 06; a very considerable premium.
Richard currently serves on BT Global Services' Advisory Board and on the advisory board of Elderstreet Capital Partners. In January 2007 he was appointed as a non executive director at Finsbury Technology Trust (FTT) - now renamed RCM Technology Trust plc. In April 07, Richard was appointed as a non executive director on the board of Regent Partners International Ltd - the holding company of M&A specialists Regent Associates.
Richard became the chairman of the Prince's Trust Technology Leadership Group (of which he was founder in 2002) in Apr. 07.
Holway
the Wise Grey Owl
FINANCIAL TIMES 3rd December 2002
The figures every senior
executive needs to know
Richard
Holway is the wise
grey owl
of the UK technology sector, which he has been involved in for 36
years, 16 of them as an influential, fiercely independent and
highly-respected analyst. His deep and intricate knowledge of the
technology industry allowed him to be one of the few analysts to
recognise and describe the technology and internet boom of recent
years for what it was: a crazy, passing fad.
In 1992 his company, which was sold to Ovum in 2000,
began the Boring Award, for companies that recorded 10 years of
consistent earnings growth. It has been awarded to just two existing
companies - Sage and Capita - and is proudly displayed in the headquarters
of both.
Holway
the Legend
Computing 2nd
March 2002
His views are not to be taken lightly - the man is something of a legend in the UK IT industry .For years he and his team have produced the leading analysis of the UK software and services sector. There is no equivalent of the Holway Report anywhere in the world. Many can compete with the mass of statistics that Holway produces, but few can compete with the knowledge and experience of Holway himself. It was Holway who correctly predicted (back in 1997) that the IT industry would catch a cold once the fuss over the millennium bug was over. Colin Barker, Editor, Computing 2nd March 2003.