About Dick Newell
Dick Newell was a British businessperson and ornithologist.
Career Newell holds degrees in Civil Engineering and Numerical Analysis and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College, London. Newell co-founded Smallworld Systems in 1988. The company was successfully floated, on NASDAQ in 1996 and was subsequently sold to General Electric Corporation (GE) in 2000.
Newell held the position of Chairman of both CIS and Smallworld Systems.
He is currently a Non-Executive Director of UltraVision CLPL with business partners J. Keith Lomas and John H. Clamp. He is also a Director of Ubisense and Digital Spring.
Newell has also held a council member position for the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO). In 2016 he received the BTO's Marsh Award for Innovative Ornithology for his work with Action for Swifts.
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