Signum Technologies Limited is a privately held technology company formed on 1st July, 1997, when it took over the activities of HighWater Signum Limited in the research, development and marketing of advanced digital watermarking technology.
A wholly British company, Signum Technologies is based in Witney, near Oxford, in England. Its main shareholders are 3i plc, Advent Venture Partners, Schroder Ventures, and HighWater Designs Ltd.
The Mission
In conjunction with strategic partners, Signum's mission is to establish digital watermarking as a key element in a variety of copyright protection and data integrity applications across a wide range of market sectors, notably:
Copyright Protection
Data Integrity
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Key Executives
John Elsden - Chairman
John Elsden was a Director of Trafalgar House Services Ltd until 1993 when he set up Allied Powers Ltd, his own management consultancy, providing services and advice to venture capitalist investors, together with management expertise in IT, acquisitions, and development for individual businesses.
John currently holds a number of non-executive directorships in technology companies and has been very successful in working with start-up and high-growth companies.
Graham Shaw - Managing Director
A graduate of London University, he was formerly head of SoftPress Systems, a developer of Web publishing tools, and Atex Publishing, a leading supplier of newspaper pre-press systems. He has also held various executive posts with a number of blue chip companies including Crosfield Electronics.
As managing director, he has overall operating responsibility for Signum Technologies Ltd.
David Hilton - Technical Director
A graduate of Oxford and Sheffield universities, he is a theoretical physicist and mathematician by profession. For some years he pursued a career in education and was a member of a specialist consultancy team lead by Oxford University.
For many years he has specialised in image processing, being concerned in particular with compression and colour quality. As Signum's principal technologist his main research for the past four years has been into the addition of identifiers into digital data objects, designing SureSign's digital watermarking algorithms and leading a small group of programming and research staff.
Alan Bartlett - Head of Marketing
A graduate in Visual Communications from the Salisbury College of Art, School of Photography, in England, he began his career as a professional photographer later holding key sales and marketing posts with Durst, Polaroid, 3M and Nikon.
For 10 years prior to Signum, he was founder and General Manager of Nikon's European Electronic Imaging Division, marketing desktop scanners, digital image transmission systems and electronic cameras to news-publishing, design, broadcast TV and photographic sectors in Greater European territories. He is the company's product evangelist and is responsible for Signum's marketing activities.
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