Nick Lanyon

Lanyon, Inc.
Chairman

Postal Address
1521 North Cooper, Suite 800
76011 Arlington
TX
USA
Telephon
+1 817 226 5656
E-mail

Biography
Nick Lanyon - Nick Lanyon worked for CAP Gemini, British Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways and as an independent consultant before founding Lanyon Ltd. in 1984. Lanyon pioneered the use of a communications co-processor board in a PC to emulate a cluster of terminals using the ALC communications protocol, offering a uniform programming interface for the many variants of this protocol used across the travel industry. Following the 1999 sale of Lanyon’s connectivity business to Attachmate Corporation, Mr Lanyon is owner and Chairman of Lanyon, Inc, in Arlington, Texas. The company develops and markets application software and services to help the travel industry distribute its products, through both Internet-based and traditional channels. Mr Lanyon has a bachelor’s degree in physics from Oxford University. He has served on IBM’s Software Vendor Advisory Council and on Sabre’s Innovations Council. He is currently on the Board of the OpenTravel Alliance, and lives in London.

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PaperHow the OpenTravel Alliance is agreeing an XML vocabulary
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