Sir John Chisholm, FREng (born August 1946) is the Executive Chairman and former Chief Executive of QinetiQ and chairman of the Medical Research Council. History Founded in 1976, the Academy was initially known as the Fellowship of Engineering. A chief executive officer ( CEO) or chief executive is typically the highest-ranking corporate officer ( executive) or administrator QinetiQ ( (pronounced, as in Kinetic energy) is a British defence technology company, formed from the greater part of the former government agency The Medical Research Council (MRC is a UK organisation dedicated to "promot the balanced development of medical and related biological research
He attended Cambridge University on a scholarship from General Motors. The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the General Motors Corporation ( GM) ( is a multinational automobile manufacturer founded in 1908 and headquartered in the United States. After completing his studies, he worked at GM, and later at BP's computer-consultancy firm Scicon before forming a software company called CAP Scientific Ltd in 1979. BP plc, previously known as British Petroleum, is the third largest global Energy company, a multinational oil company (" Oil major CAP Scientific Ltd was a British defence software company CAP merged with Sema-Metra SA in 1988 as Sema Group plc which was acquired by Schlumberger in 2001 to become CAP was sold in 1988 to Sema, a French company. Sema Group plc was an Anglo-French IT services company founded in 1988 by the merger of the British CAP Group and the French company Sema-Metra SA This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics.
In 1991, Chisholm was asked by the UK Ministry of Defence to organize a number of their research organisations into a single entity, which eventually became the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA). The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The Ministry of Defence ( MoD) is the United Kingdom government department responsible for implementation of government defence policy and is the headquarters The Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (normally known as DERA) was a part of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD until July 2, 2001. In July 2001, three quarters of DERA was spun off to form a new private company called QinetiQ. QinetiQ ( (pronounced, as in Kinetic energy) is a British defence technology company, formed from the greater part of the former government agency In late 2005 Chisholm became Executive Chairman of QinetiQ, being replaced as CEO by Graham Love. Graham Love is the Chief Executive Officer of QinetiQ Group plc According to The Sunday Times his annual pay was £467,000 in 2004. The Sunday Times is a Sunday Broadsheet Newspaper distributed in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. His £129,000 investment in the company was later worth £23m (a 17,829. 5% return on his investment, almost 180 times the initial value of the investment suggesting the company was undervalued and the taxpayer was ripped off). [1]
Chisholm was a founding member of the British Government's Technology Foresight programme, and has been President of the Electrical Engineering Association. He was President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (2005-2006) and President of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (2006). The Institution of Electrical Engineers or IEE (pronounce I-double-E or I-E-E was a British professional organisation for Electronics, The Institution of Engineering and Technology ( IET) is a British Professional body for those working in Engineering and Technology He was knighted in 1999. Knight is the English term for a social position originating in the Middle Ages.
Appointed chairman of the Medical Research Council in 2006, in 2007 the House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology said "we have serious reservations as to whether Sir John is the right person to guide the MRC Executive through the coming period of change". The Medical Research Council (MRC is a UK organisation dedicated to "promot the balanced development of medical and related biological research The House of Commons' is the Lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords The Science and Technology Committee was a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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- ^ "Qinetiq deal 'cost UK taxpayers'", BBC News, 22 November 2007. Events 498 - Kofi Aseidu- After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Retrieved on 2007-11-22. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 498 - Kofi Aseidu- After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran
- Sir John Chisholm biography at IEE
- Andrew Davidson "Interview: The man who put the Q into QinetiQ" The Sunday Times March 27, 2005
- "The spoils of war" Telegraph. The Sunday Times is a Sunday Broadsheet Newspaper distributed in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. co. uk July 24, 2005
- Chairman - Sir John Chisholm MRC biography.
- Report of House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology 25 July 2007.
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