on Investment Banking over the past two decades,
and I have no wish to invoke Thomas Piketty here.
There were stimulating intellectual challenges and
the customary compensations, but my near-quartercentury is frankly a blur of dealing rooms, airports and
PowerPoint presentations. I was principally employed as
an Investment Analyst. Investment Analysts, especially
at the turn of the present century, were, for commercial
reasons, related to the generation of trading volumes
in a particular stock, notorious for what AJP Taylor
might have termed ‘extreme views, weakly held.’
Latterly, I co-founded with some innovative software
engineers, and for the past eight years have chaired, a
British technology company called Lumi Technologies.
Lumi has developed a unique and patented technology
that fosters interaction and facilitates the expression
of opinion and gaining of insight through the
mobile device. The technology is deployed in
meetings and events, the market research industry
and above all in education where it helps draw out
the opinions of the reticent yet talented and quietly
enthusiastic in the classroom and lecture theatre.
Despite my estrangement from Winchester, I have
never forgotten nor under-valued the liberal nature
of my education, designed to foster an open mind, to
inspire the imagination and nurture habits of critical
thinking. I knew that Div, in particular, had given me a
substantial advantage in life from the moment I went to
my Oxford interview. The concept and practice of Div,
as the 2014 Wyk