Edward Wolton
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Edward Wolton was elected the 12th Chairman of the BCS Young Professionals Group, where he also served as a member of British Computer Society's Advisory Council.
Wolton founded Cygnet Computer Solutions in July, 1997. Since then he has worked worldwide with companies and individuals from Colorado to Georgia to Normandy, France. His work has involved security and network consulting, hardware and software evaluations and implementations, training clients in IT systems and working with people from government ministers to individuals.
Wolton is a Freeman of the City of London and of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists, working with a number of charitable programmes for the advancement of others.
Woltan is a member of the Council (governing committee) of the Parliamentary Information Technology Committee in the House of Commons and sits on the committee of the Parliamentary Maritime Group in the House of Lords. He is actively involved in I.T. in education initiatives such as JAPONITE, the Joint Advisory Panel On IT in Education, and with endeavours to promote computing in rural communities. With regard to his transatlantic business interests he is a member of the British American Business Group and of the British American Chamber of Commerce and in addition he is an executive director of Fernhazel Ltd, a property investment company in the United Kingdom.
A fluent French speaker, Wolton qualified from the Université Paris 5 in France with a Master's degree in Computing and a Bachelor's in the same subject from the University of Brighton in the United Kingdom. In addition he has received diplomas in Modern Languages and Computing and Information Systems from Brighton and a diploma in Accounting from Georgia State University in the United States of America. He has also attended Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. to study areas of specialist medicine relevant to his medical clients, for which he received a diploma in "Mini-Medicine."
