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Here are all the UK tech figures named in the Queen's New Year's Honours list

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Here are all the UK tech figures named in the Queen's New Year's Honours list

Dr Dave Watson from IBM Research UK

Dr Dave Watson from IBM Research UK

Dr Dave Watson is the director of IBM Research in the UK. He manages IBM's UK research team, and focuses on a partnership with the Science & Technology Facilities Council which researches big data.

IBM Research is also working with the Ministry of Defence and the US Army Research Laboratory.

Watson has worked for IBM since graduating from the University of Southampton in 1984.

Watson receives a CBE for services to science and engineering research.

Imran Gulamhuseinwala from EY

Imran Gulamhuseinwala from EY

Imran Gulamhuseinwala is the global head of fintech at EY. He leads the company's fintech operations, working with the UK's fintech scene, as well as corporate clients.

Gulamhuseinwala is also one of the cofounders of London startup CommuterClub, which lets customers pay for annual travelcards through monthly instalments. The company's card can reportedly save people up to £300 people a year on Oyster Card travel.

Gulamhuseinwala receives an OBE for services to financial services.

Hazel Moore from FirstCapital

Hazel Moore from FirstCapital

Hazel Moore is the chairman and cofounder of FirstCapital, an investment bank for technology companies. The company says it works with European technology businesses valued between $50 million (£40 million) and $500 million (£406 million). It also works with larger companies that want to acquire startups. Moore is also a member of the governing board of Innovate UK.

Moore receives an OBE for services to entrepreneurship and innovation.

Maggie Philbin from TeenTech

Maggie Philbin from TeenTech

TeenTech is a not-for-profit organisation that organises events in the UK and Republic of Ireland aimed at encouraging young people to explore careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Philbin is the CEO and cofounder of TeenTech and also a radio and television presenter. She was a presenter on "Multi-Coloured Swap Shop" alongside Noel Edmonds, and also presented "Tomorrow's World."

Philbin receives an OBE for services to promoting careers in STEM and creative industries.

Danny Rimer from Index Ventures

Danny Rimer from Index Ventures

Danny Rimer joined VC fund Index Ventures in 2002 and helped set up its office in London. He now works from the firm's San Francisco office, which he helped establish in 2012.

Rimer's investments include Anki, Dropbox, Etsy, Farfetch, Flipboard, King, Nasty Gal, Patreon, Viagogo, and Zesty. He was previously a director at Etsy, Sky, Last.fm, Lovefilm, and Skype.

Alongside his investment activities, Rimer also sits on the board of Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres. The drop-in centres include locations in the UK and Hong Kong.

Rimer receives an OBE for services to business and charity.

Caroline Taylor from IBM

Caroline Taylor from IBM

Caroline Taylor is the vice president of global marketing & communications at IBM's sales & distribution division. She was previously CMO of IBM Europe.

Taylor joined IBM in 1997 and has worked in marketing roles in the technology company since the early nineties. She is also the chair of trustees of Stop the Traffik, which campaigns to stop the spread of human trafficking around the world.

Taylor receives an OBE for services to marketing, diversity, and prevention of human trafficking.

Imran Amed from The Business of Fashion

Imran Amed from The Business of Fashion

Imran Amed is founder and CEO of The Business of Fashion, the online news site for the fashion industry.

Amed started his site in 2007 as a blog about the fashion industry, but it has become one of the leading sources of news in the fashion world. The site raised a Series A funding round in 2015 from investors including Index Ventures, LVMH, Carmen Busquets, and Felix Capital.

Amed was previously a management consultant at McKinsey & Co. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor of commerce degree from McGill University.

Amed receives an MBE for services to fashion.

Robin Christopherson from AbilityNet

Robin Christopherson from AbilityNet

Robin Christopherson is the head of digital inclusion at AbilityNet, a UK charity that aims to help disabled adults and children use technology.

Christopherson's family is thought to be the only one in the world with a rare retina inflammation disorder which has left them all visually impaired. He has lead AbilityNet's digital inclusion efforts since 1998, and has a masters degree in engineering from Cambridge University.

Christopherson receives an MBE for services to digital inclusion.

Alesha De-Freitas from The Department of Business & Energy, UK

Alesha De-Freitas from The Department of Business & Energy, UK

Alesha De-Freitas is the head of digital single market at the Department of Business & Energy. The digital single market is a project by the European Commission to create a single marketplace for technology in the European Union. De-Freitas is the government's chief advocate for the project.

De-Freitas receives an MBE for services to the digital single market and voluntary service to education.

Technology investor Gi Fernando

Technology investor Gi Fernando

Gi Fernando is a technology investor based in the UK who has backed businesses such as Citymapper, BookingBug, Car Throttle, and YPlan.

Fernando previously founded social media marketing company Techlightenment, which was acquired by Experian in 2011. The company started life when a friend bet Fernando £6 that he couldn't start a company and get a paying client within five days.

Fernando receives an MBE for services to the digital economy.

Debbie Forster from Apps For Good

Debbie Forster from Apps For Good

Debbie Forster is the co-CEO of Apps For Good, an organisation that encourages young people to develop apps. The organisation says it has reached 75,000 young people.

Forster previously worked as the headteacher of a school in Berkshire, and worked in teaching throughout the nineties.

Forster receives an MBE for services to digital technology and tech development.

Anne-Marie Imafidon from Stemettes

Anne-Marie Imafidon from Stemettes

Anne-Marie Imafidon is CEO of Stemettes, an organisation that is helping bring young women into science, technology, engineering, and mathematics roles. Stemettes says that 13,000 girls in Europe have attended events run by the organisation.

Imafidon was a child prodigy who was one of the youngest people in the UK to pass an A-Level exam. She passed her computing A-Level aged just 11. She also passed her GCSEs in maths and IT aged 11, and graduated from Oxford University with a degree in computer science aged 20.

After leaving university, Imafidon interned at Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs and worked as an analyst at Deutsche Bank.

Imafidon receives an MBE for services to young women within STEM sectors.

Kathryn Parsons from Decoded

Kathryn Parsons from Decoded

Kathryn Parsons is CEO of Decoded, the company that helps teach people to code by running a series of one-day intensive courses that run people through the basics of programming.

Decoded was founded in 2011 and has grown to include offices in London, New York, and Sydney. Decoded says it has taught in over 40 cities around the world since its launch.

Parsons receives an MBE for services to digital education.

Joe White from Entrepreneur First

Joe White from Entrepreneur First

Joe White is a general partner at London-based startup accelerator Entrepreneur First. It was announced that he had joined the accelerator along with his wife, Wendy Tan White, in March.

White and his wife previously founded website and online shop builder Moonfruit in 1999. Since then, over 5 million websites have been created using the service. White served as COO, CFO, CEO, and product director during his time at the company. Moonfruit was sold to Yell in 2012 for $37 million (£30 million).

White's wife, Moonfruit cofounder Wendy Tan White, received an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list back in June. And his colleagues at Entrepreneur First, cofounders Alice Bentinck and Matt Clifford, also received MBEs in June.

White receives an MBE for services to technology businesses.

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