Angus Fox
ANGUS FOX Director of Multizone Limited, has 25 years experience of software product management and marketing worldwide at HP, BT, Microsoft, Lotus and Oracle and numerous startups and corporate clients.
He is a subject matter expert in collaboration, cloud computing, mobile, operating systems, and their ecosystems.
Multizone concentrates on creation of low cost mobile applications for the public sector and for policing in particular, as well as providing strategic consulting on collaboration, social software, mobile applications and the strategies of major software companies in these markets.
Clients of our best practice workshops and field training in the use of social media are able to exploit social media with measurable results.
Since early 2009 Angus has led the ‘Devnest’ technology community for developers of social networking technology at The Guardian in London. Devnest is free to all and sponsored by Multizone, The Guardian Open Platform, and Amazon Web Services and officially supported but independent of Twitter Corporation.
In May 2011 Multizone delivered a revolutionary mobile application for Surrey Police developed using local developers from the Devnest community enabling the police to provide better, faster, and more engaging information to local communities using public real time social information networks and open data. This project uses open data and Twitter as its platform, and is one of six Home Office trailblazer projects.
Angus was listed in Wired Magazine, November 2009 as part of the ‘UK Twitterati’
His subject matter expertise includes: -
- Enterprise collaboration technologies including Lotus Notes, Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange.
- Internet Standards based collaboration and messaging systems.
- Managed Hosting Services.
- Mobile phone applications software and middleware.
- Cloud computing technology strategies being employed by major software vendors.
His experience has included:
- Substantial product direction experience gained in Fortune 100 software companies including senior roles in Sun Microsystems, IBM/Lotus, Microsoft Limited, Oracle Corporation.
- Experience gained by leading product creation in the demanding regulated environment at British Telecommunications plc and subsequently at multiple software technology startups backed by venture capital firms such as 3i and Nokia Ventures
- eCal Corporation, technology acquired by Sendmail Inc (the inventors of Internet email)
- Intuwave, acquired by Mercury Corporation, then Hewlett Packard
- Interim management engagement with Pinpoint Global contributed to acquisition by NASDAQ quoted company Epiq Systems
- Due diligence consultancy and interim management engagement which resulted in acquisition of a US based social network for the patent community, by Cambridge IP Limited, a retained client
- Strategic marketing interim management engagement resulting in a turnaround strategy for Applicable Limited, a retained client who are a specialist in enterprise collaboration.
- Since early 2009 the leader of the ‘devnest’ community of interest, a south east of england based technology community for developers of social networking technology. Devnest is a monthly event and annual conference held at the offices of The Guardian in London attracting around 100 people, sponsored by The Guardian Open Platform, and Paypal Developer network. Each month attracting specialist presenters from the likes of Yahoo, Google, and Twitter.
- Deep experience with public service provision at senior management levels including chairing the management committee for the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award in the London Borough or Merton for almost ten years after initially working there as a qualified part time youth worker, and chairing the BBC London advisory council, an appointment which was extended twice during the transition of accountability at the BBC to the BBC Trust.
Multizone have provided product management and product marketing services for software companies, typically technology startups for many years. The diversification of Multizone into the public safety area is a deliberate strategy to begin the transformation of Multizone into a UK technology software company.
For the past 18 months Multizone has been developing skill and comprehension of Social Media and Social Network technology. We helped our client, Cambridge IP, to acquire a specialist social network, of massive scale. We run social media focused developer community events in London and the South East and have visited Twitter in San Francisco, as well as immersing ourselves in the technology and its competition to understand what it means for enterprise collaboration - our original specialist subject area which we keep current with frequent visits to the United States to Microsoft and IBM events and meetings.
