Philip Hulme

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.^[1] He then joined Boston Consulting Group becoming a Vice-President and Director in 1979.^[1]

Hulme, together with his former Harvard colleague Peter Ogden founded Computacenter in 1981 and expanded it into one of the United Kingdom's largest computer businesses.^[1] When the Company floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1998 Hulme gave much of the proceeds from the sale of his shares to charity.^[2] He served as Chairman of Computacenter from 1998 to 2001.^[3]

Hulme is also a substantial shareholder in Dealogic, another British computer business.^[4]

He was knighted in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to technology and philanthropy.^[5]

In the run-up to the 2024 United Kingdom general election, Hulme donated £25,000 to Reform UK.^[6]