Tony Lowman
Present
Managing Partner - Lymington Plumbing LLP - Gas, Plumbing & Heating Engineers
Established business after choosing early semi-retirement & lifestyle change; retrained as CORGI-registered gas, heating, plumbing & electrical engineer.
Leadership Team Member - Lymington Baptist Church - special responsibility for governance, finance, administration & major projects
Career History
Global Products Director - Misys Asset Management Systems - IT systems supplier to leading asset managers worldwide - acquired & restructured failing business; Chairman / Director General / Managing Director of subsidiary companies in UK, France, Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Australia; established new software development venture in Vietnam
Consultancy Director - Braxxon Technology - IT & systems consultancy in Financial securities Trading - together with two fellow directors, grew company from 3 to 55 consulting staff over 10 years; Member of DTI Foresight Panel on Future of Financial Services Infrastructure (1999)
Head of Information Systems - UBS Philips & Drew - Investment Bankers; integrated IT & financial trading systems of UBS / Philips & Drew following merger
Director of Infrastructure - UBS Securuties - joint Project Manager for construction & fitting out of UBS London HQ at Broadgate
Technical Services Manager - Credit Suisse First Boston - managed all IT & securities trading room systems & services
European Data Centre Manager - Royal Bank of Canada (formerly Orion Bank) - IBM mainframe computer centre manager
Principal Consultant - Computer Analysts & Programmers
Research Assistant - Department of Nuclear Physics, University of Oxford & CERN, Geneva
Education
Merton College, Oxford: Open Major Scholarship
BA Physics;
D.Phil Elementary Particle Physics
Other
Chair of Trustees - Administry - small charity assisting UK churches with organisational & administrative matters
Elder - Greyfriars Church, Reading
Skipper - Ocean racing yacht - competed at UK national level in offshore racing for 15 years including 7 Fastnet races