About Philip Hulme
Born 1948. Philip Hulme is a businessperson.
Sir Philip William Hulme (born 1948) is the co-founder of Computacenter, one of the United Kingdom's largest computer businesses.
Career Having graduated at Imperial College, London with a first class degree in engineering, Hulme secured a Harkness Fellowship and joined the MBA Programme at Harvard Business School. He then joined Boston Consulting Group becoming a Vice-President and Director in 1979. He served as Chairman of Computacenter from 1998 to 2001.
Hulme is also a substantial shareholder in Dealogic, another British computer business.
He was knighted in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to technology and philanthropy.
In the run-up to the 2024 United Kingdom general election, Hulme donated £25,000 to Reform UK.
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