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Crawford W. Beveridge CBE is a Scottish-American technology executive.
Beveridge, originally from Scotland, attended the University of Edinburgh, earning a B.Sc. in social science. He followed that with an M.Sc. in industrial administration from the University of Bradford.
He was given the honor of a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1995 and was elected a Fellow of the
Crawford Beveridge Bio Page on Autodesk
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Crawford W. Beveridge CBE is a Scottish-American technology executive.
Beveridge, originally from Scotland, attended the University of Edinburgh, earning a B.Sc. in social science. He followed that with an M.Sc. in industrial administration from the University of Bradford.
He was given the honor of a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1995 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent and non-partisan basis and provides public benefit throughout Scotland. It was established i ...
in 2016.
Beveridge's business background included Hewlett-Packard
The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard ( ) or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. HP developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components ...
, Digital Equipment Corp.
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and Analog Devices
Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), also known simply as Analog, is an American multinational semiconductor company specializing in data conversion, signal processing and power management technology, headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts.
The co ...
. In 1985, he joined Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the ...
as vice president of corporate resources, where he stayed until 1991, when he left and took the position of chief executive of Scottish Enterprise.
In 2000, he returned to Sun to fill the position of executive vice president people and places and chief human resources officer. He was a board member of corporations outside of Sun, including Autodesk, Memec and Scottish Equity Partners. He is a non-executive chairman of the board in Autodesk and as of July 2016, Beveridge owns approximately $1.9 million worth of Autodesk shares.
He was executive vice president and chairman, EMEA, APAC and the Americas of Sun in 2007.
He chairs the Scottish government's Council of Economic Advisers.
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Crawford Beveridge Bio Page on Autodesk
Scottish chief executives Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Alumni of the University of Bradford Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Human resource management people Autodesk people {{Scotland-business-bio-stub