Philip M J Taysom
Joint CEO
Peratech Limited

Always on ... isn’t always a good thing

With a 25 year career in computing and telecommunications businesses, Philip started developing music and copy protection utilities for the early computer games industry in the mid 1980’s. This led to his appointment as Activision’s European Technical Co-Ordinator.
In 1994 at the naissance of the commercialisation of the Internet, Philip’s experience and skills were in demand from organisations such as Reuters, Conde Nast and several other large publishing and retail groups.
Philip co-founded Planet Online – Europe’s largest business to business ISP – and later the creator of the wildly successful Freeserve service. In late 1998 Planet Online was sold to Energis plc for a total deal amounting to around £150m Sterling. Philip then co-founded VData – later floated into the InTechnology plc vehicle for a combined £454m Sterling and represented the most successful technology IPO in Europe during the year 2000. Philip Taysom is joint CEO and an executive director.
Peratech is the inventor and world leader in Quantum Tunnelling Composite (QTC) technology. QTC’s are electro-active polymeric materials which enable the action of ‘touch’ to be translated into an electrical reaction, enabling a vast array of devices to incorporate very thin and highly robust ‘sensing’ of touch and pressure. Already widely used in robotics and defence, Peratech commercialised its QTC technology at the beginning of 2006 and is currently working with a number of key technology clients who are implementing QTC sensing technology within their own products.