John Bates (technology executive)
John Bates is a British computer scientist, and businessman. He has started several technology companies in the UK. Bates is CEO at ECM/DMS vendor Doxis.
Education
Bates received his PhD in mobile and distributed computing at the University of Cambridge computer laboratory in 1993. His PhD advisor was Jean Bacon.Career
Earlier on, he was a lecturer and Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge 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.Bates is an entrepreneur in the software industry, focusing on areas such as event-driven architectures, smart environments, business activity monitoring and Internet of Things.
In 2011 Wall Street and Technology magazine named him as one of the "10 innovators of the decade". In 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015, Institutional Investor 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.