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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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