David BrabenDr. David Braben has been a software engineer for 42 years, beginning when he co-wrote the best-selling computer game Elite while still at Cambridge University in the early 1980s. He founded Frontier Developments plc in January 1994, a 50-person company based on the Science Park in Cambridge, which floated in 2013 (AIM: FDEV), and co-founded the Raspberry Pi Foundation in 2008, a charity that supports education worldwide, and sells small educational computers for as little as $5.
He supports start-ups, particularly in the environmental space through his membership of Cambridge Angels. He was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2012, a Fellowship of BAFTA in 2015 (one of only 97 since the first was given to Alfred Hitchcock in 1971), honorary doctorates from Abertay University, the Open University, and York University, and an OBE in 2014.
He loves games, sailing, films, and is a BAFTA film judge. Read More Read Less