Michael Rowan Hamilton John O'Regan OBE (born c. 1947) is a British businessman and the co-founder of RM plc. O'Regan graduated with an

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degree from

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. In 1973, with

Mike Fischer Mike David Fischer CBE is the co-founder of the computer company RM plc. Fischer graduated with a physics degree from Oxford University. In 1973, with Mike O'Regan (who had an economics degree from Cambridge), Fischer co-founded Research Machi ...

(who had a

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degree from

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), O'Regan co-founded Research Machines, a British

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and then

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company for the educational market. He was an executive director until 1992, when he became a non-executive director. He has been a non-executive director of a number of other companies as well, including the

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. O'Regan was awarded an honorary degree by

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in 1999. With RM co-founder,

O'Regan was awarded an honorary degree by the

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in 2002. O'Regan was awarded an

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in the

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in 2000. He was a governor of Oxford Brookes University and of The Oxford Academy Trust, and a Deputy Lieutenant of Oxfordshire from 2003 until 2014 when he and his wife Jane moved to Wiltshire. O'Regan is the founder and Chair o
Hamilton Trust
which ran Maths Year 2000 for the British government, and co-founded early years charit
Peeple

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