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John Lazar (engineer)
British investor and engineer (born 1959)
Sir John Wilfred LazarCBE FREng FBCS (born March 1959) is a British investor, engineer and businessman [1] who is the current president of the Royal Academy of Engineering.[2][3] He spent much of his career at Metaswitch, where he served as chairman and CEO, after starting at the company as a software engineer.
He received his CBE in 2016 for services to engineering. Lazar currently serves as the chairman for the Raspberry Pi Foundation and co-founder & General Partner at Enza Capital.[4]
Education and career
Lazar graduated in Computer science from the University of the Witwatersrand and then completed an MSc in that subject and a DPhil in History at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.[5]
He began his career in 1987 at Metaswitch, rising through the company and becoming its CEO in 2009,[6] and then chairman in 2015.