Don Phillips, Chair Bubble Enterprises
Don Phillips has worked within the IT industry for 25 years.
He joined Hewlett-Packard after graduating from the University of Salford. He spent twenty years working for the company as it travelled the journey from being a minor player to being the largest IT organisation in the world.
Fifteen years was spent in business development. He worked in areas such as market development, channel development, account development and new business creation.
Latterly he moved into operational roles culminating in being a company director at an EMEA level. He was in this as HP went through Y2K, the dot com 'boom and bust', and then through the 'merge' with Compaq.