Jason Kingdon | |
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| Alma mater | University College London, Queen Mary University of London, University of Bristol |
Jason Kingdon is a mathematician, computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is currently Executive Chairman of Blue Prism[1] and co-founder of several AI companies.[2]
Education
editKingdon did his undergraduate degree in pure mathematics at Queen Mary University of London, masters in Mathematical Logic and Theory Computation at the University of Bristol and his PhD in Computer Science at University College London.[2] His Phd thesis was on Feed forward neural networks and genetic algorithms for automated financial time series modelling.
Career
editKingdon was one of the earliest pioneers in applying AI for enterprise-scale problems starting in the mid-nineties.
1995
editWhile being a PhD student at UCL, Kingdon co-founded Searchspace and also co-founded the Intelligent Systems Lab.[2] Searchspace pioneered the application of AI to detect money laundering, detect insider-dealing detection at the world’s top tier banks, including RBS, Barclays, Wells Fargo, and stock exchanges including the London Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange. In 2005, Kingdon sold Searchspace to Warburg Pincus for $140 million.[3][4]
2008 Present
editKingdon became an early investor in Blue Prism, which is the global leader in Robotic Process Automation (RPA), a category of enterprise software that it help define. He led business strategy and successful IPO in 2016. Blue Prism software provides a ‘digital workforce’ to organisations that carry out tasks in the same way that existing users currently do. The clients of Blue Prism include 1,400 of the Fortune Global 5,000 organisations in 130 countries such as Siemens, Walgreens and ebay.
Awards
editKingdon has been the recipient of several awards including 2003 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, and on behalf of Searchspace received Deloitte 50 fastest growing technology company in 2002, 2005 and Sunday Times’ Tech Track 100 in 2002 and 2005.
Publications
editSeveral books,[5] patents [6]and papers have been authored by Kingdon in the fields of neural networks, genetic algorithms, fraud detection, robotic process automation and the future of enterprise computing.
His patents include: Method and system for combating robots and rogues[7] and System and supervision procedure.[8]
References
edit- ^ "Blue Prism Rehires Jason Kingdon As Executive Chair Amid Growth". MorningStar. 22 October 2019.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b c "Commercialising RPA - Blue Prism Chairman on "a technology that got invented in the UK - and no-one even noticed"". Diginomica. 29 October 2019.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Why RPA? Blue Prism chairperson exaplains why RPA is a game changer". Information Age. 2019-10-17. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
- ^ TWK (2019-03-28). "Fast Track". Fast Track. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
- ^ www.amazon.com https://www.amazon.com/Intelligent-Financial-Forecasting-Perspectives-Computing/dp/B00MK26TL0/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=jason+kingdon&qid=1583948590&sr=8-1. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ [1], "A method and system for combating robots and rogues", issued 2002-01-03
- ^ [2], "System and supervision procedure.", issued 1998-04-16
- ^ [3], "Method and system for combating robots and rogues", issued 2002-01-03