Philip Hulme
{{Short description|British businessman (born 1948)}}
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Sir Philip William Hulme (born 1948) is the co-founder of Computacenter, one of the United Kingdom's largest computer businesses.
Career
Having graduated at Imperial College, London with a first class degree in engineering, Hulme secured a Harkness Fellowship and joined the MBA Programme at Harvard Business School.[http://production.investis.com/computacenter/cc_htmlreports/report98/bod/ Computacenter: Annual Report 1998] He then joined Boston Consulting Group becoming a Vice-President and Director in 1979.
Hulme, together with his former Harvard colleague Peter Ogden founded Computacenter in 1981 and expanded it into one of the United Kingdom's largest computer businesses. When the Company floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1998 Hulme gave much of the proceeds from the sale of his shares to charity.[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/richlist/person/0,,33757,00.html Sunday Times Rich List 2004]{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} He served as Chairman of Computacenter from 1998 to 2001.[http://production.investis.com/computacenter/cc_board/ Computacenter: Board of Directors]
Hulme is also a substantial shareholder in Dealogic, another British computer business.[https://web.archive.org/web/20121026094923/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-115416115.html Cazenove leads Dealogic flotation] Financial News, 14 April 2004
He was knighted in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to technology and philanthropy.{{London Gazette|issue=61608|supp=y|page=B2|date=11 June 2016}}
In the run-up to the 2024 United Kingdom general election, Hulme donated £25,000 to Reform UK.{{cite web |last1=Scott |first1=Jennifer |title=Tories received £50,000 donation from firm linked to convicted billionaire businessman |url=https://news.sky.com/story/tories-received-50-000-donation-from-firm-linked-to-convicted-billionaire-businessman-13178276 |website=Sky News |access-date=5 August 2024 |date=15 July 2024}}
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