John Bates is a British computer scientist, and businessman. He has started several technology companies in the UK. Bates is

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/ DMS vendor SER Group.

Education

Bates received his PhD in mobile and distributed computing (computer science) at the University of Cambridge computer laboratory in 1993. His PhD advisor was

Jean Bacon Jean Bacon (born 1942) is a British emeritus professor of distributed systems at the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, where she co-headed the Opera Research Group from its founding in the 1990s. Previously, she taught at Hatf ...

Career

Earlier on, he was a lecturer and Fellow of

St Catherine's College, Cambridge St Catharine's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1473 as Katharine Hall, it adopted its current name in 1860. The college is nicknamed "Catz". The college is located in the historic city-centre of Ca ...

until 2000. At Cambridge, he led several research projects, often in collaboration with industry, and designed and taught courses covering operating systems, distributed systems, software engineering and

mobile computing Mobile computing is human–computer interaction in which a computer is expected to be transported during normal usage, which allows for the transmission of data, voice, and video. Mobile computing involves mobile communication, mobile hardware ...

. Bates is an entrepreneur in the software industry, focusing on areas such as event-driven architectures, smart environments,

business activity monitoring Business activity monitoring (BAM) is software that aids the monitoring of business activities which are implemented in computer systems. The term was originally coined by analysts at Gartner, Inc. and refers to the aggregation, analysis, and ...

and

Internet of Things The Internet of things (IoT) describes physical objects (or groups of such objects) with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other comm ...

. In 2011 ''Wall Street and Technology'' magazine named him as one of the "10 innovators of the decade". In 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015, ''

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'' named him in its "Tech 50" of disruptive technologists. Bates has published 2015 a book entitled ''Thingalytics: Smart Big Data for the Internet of Things''.

Apama

Bates was co-founder, President and CTO of Apama, the pioneering streaming analytics company.

IONA Technologies

Bates has been CTO of

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since December 2009 and its Executive Vice President since 2011.

Terracotta, Inc

He has been CTO of

Terracotta, Inc. Terracotta, Inc., is a computer-software company that specializes in database applications. The company is owned by Software AG. History Terracotta started as a provider of clustering technologies to move clustering and caching services to t ...

since October 2013. He was a member of the Technology Council at C5 Capital Ltd.

Progress Software

He was a vice president of Progress Software since 3 May 2011 and served as its Divisional general manager. He was CTO of Progress Software Corp. from 2009 to 2013 and its Decision Analytics Business Line Leader from 2012 to 2013.

Software AG

He was the chief marketing officer at Software AG (alternate name Software Aktiengesellschaft) from 2014 to 2015. He was CTO of Intelligent Business Operations & Big Data at Software AG since October, 2013. He served as Head of Industry Solutions at Software AG.

PLAT.ONE Inc.

He served as CEO of PLAT.ONE Inc. from October, 2015 to February, 2017.

TestPlant / Eggplant

He has been the CEO of TestPlant Limited from February, 2017 to January, 2021.

Sage

Since May 2019 Bates is an Independent Non-Executive Director and is a member of the Remuneration Committee and the Nomination Committee.

SER Group

Bates was named CEO in January 2022.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bates, John Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge British computer scientists English engineers Living people Members of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory Year of birth missing (living people)