Andrew Bud

Andrew Bud is CEO of London-based authentication and ID startup iProov, which he founded in 2011. A serial entrepreneur, industry leader adn technologist, he was formerly CEO and then Chairman of mBlox Inc, the world's largest provider of enterprise text messaging services, which he founded in 1999. He is Global Chair of MEF, the trade association of the international mobile content and commerce community, and a non-executive director of several technology businesses. As head of mobile technology for Olivetti in the 1990's he was a founder of the mobile network operator now known as Vodafone Italia and developed the world's first DECT product. He has a first class honours degree in Engineering from the University of Cambridge, and is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.