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Claire Danes, Caitriona Balfe, Stana Katic or Katheryn Winnick? Who are you waiting to meet in 2016?

Claire Danes in Homeland season 6, Caitriona Balfe in Outlander season 2, Stana Katic in Castle season 8 or Katheryn Winnick in Vikings season 4? 2016 promises to be a fantastic year. We have new expectations and hopes. Our small screen is full of great TV shows, some of them are on vacancies, waiting for winter season, some others are been shooting now. Who are your favorite actresses? Who do you expect to meet in 2016? Here, my favorite choices.

Claire Danes in Homeland

Last year, Claire Danes was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. No doubt, she deserves it. Since 2011, she has starred as Carrie Mathison in the Showtime series Homeland, for which she has won two Emmys and two Golden Globes. Remember that on December 9, 2015, Homeland was renewed for a sixth season. We need to see Homeland season 6 soon!

Maybe you also like this post: Homeland season 6. What do you expect from the upcoming episodes?

Caitriona Balfe playing the role as Claire Randall/Fraser in Outlander (Starz) is one of the most romantic and epic feminine characters that everybody is waiting to see again. Don’t worry! Outlander season 2 will return in spring 2016.

Stana Katic playing the role of Detective Kate Beckett in Castle season 8 returns on February 1, 2016. New funny episodes of this classic TV show are waiting for us! Don’t you love Stana Katic? For sure! She and Nathan Fillion, playing as Richard Castle, are one of the sweetest couples on TV.

Katheryn Winnick in Vikings

Time ago, sexy Katheryn Winnick joined History Channel’s Vikings, starring in the role of Lagertha, a legendary figure in Viking history. On March 26, 2015, History renewed Vikings for an extended fourth season of 20 episodes, which is set to premiere on February 18, 2016. We cannot wait for it!

Thus, Claire Danes, Caitriona Balfe, Stana Katic or Katheryn Winnick? Who are you waiting to meet in 2016? Tell us your opinion now!

Claire Danes returns soon! Take a look!

Enjoy your day, Yareah friends. Art is everywhere and up to you!

Zhou B Art Center, Chicago. National Wet Paint MFA Biennial 2016

Allie Billmeyer
Title of work: Loomer’s Edge
Medium: Oil Paint, Mixed Media on Canvas
Size: 25x25in
Year: 2014

The National Wet Paint MFA Biennial Exhibition 2016 is an outlook and an overview of top MFA painting programs in the United States. Wet Paint refers to the idea that this is a fresh group of artists. They are MFA (Masters of Fine Arts) candidates and recent MFA recipients working primarily in the medium of painting. Now on its fourth edition this growing and highly competitive juried exhibition will bring to Chicago some of the most talented emerging artists in the country. Wet Paint 2016 is fully funded by the Zhou B. Art Center which makes it possible for graduate students to submit works for consideration at no cost. The National Wet Paint MFA Biennial 2016 takes place from January 15 to February 13, 2016 in the spacious second floor gallery of the Zhou B Art Center. Wet Paint is curated by Zhou B Art Center’s curator, Sergio Gomez, MFA.

The National Wet Paint MFA Biennial 2016 seeks to highlight traditional and experimental ways contemporary artists incorporate and embrace painting as their primary medium.

Madeline Winter
Title of Work: In Utero
Medium: Oil and Acrylic on Panel
Size: 12″x12″
Year: 2015

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Marisa Andropolis, University of Mississippi

Yael Ben-Simon, School of the Art Institute Chicago

Justin Bryant, Louisiana State University

Allie Billmeyer, Bowling Green State University

Matt Allyn Chapman, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Angela Cooke, Kendall College of Art & Design of Ferris State University

Eliseo Casiano, Louisiana State University

Erica Elan Ciganek, University of Washington

Gillians Collins, Towson State University

David Cuatlacuatl, The Pennsylvania State University

Shannon Czaja, Kendall College of Art and Design

Johny DeFeo, University of Colorado Boulder

Stephen D’Onofrio, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Erica Field, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Joshua Hale, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Jesse Hazel, Bowling Green State University

Chakila L. Hoskins, Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State

University

Samantha Haring, Northern Illinois University

Hoijin Jung, Purdue University

Karla Kantorovich, University of Miami

Leah Lewman, University of Arizona

Candice Licalzi, Long Island University

Steven Lockwood, Northern Illinois University

Elias Lytton, University of Florida

Kassandra Mattia, University of Iowa

Elizabeth McClellan, University of Texas at Austin

Gil Arnaud Ngole, Memphis College of art

Joelle Provost, Brooklyn College (CUNY)

Travis Rice, Arizona State University

Dustin Rogers, Kendall College of Art and Design

Juan Pablo Ruiz, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Sima Schloss, Lehman College

Nicole Shaver, University of Iowa

Kendra Stenger, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

Orkideh Torabi, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Jordan Walker, Long Island University

Xin Wang, Maine College of Art

Madeline Winter, Indiana University-Bloomington

Hyeonkyeong Yeo, School of Visual Arts

Katie Darby Slater, Rhode Island School of Design

About Zhou B Art Center

The Zhou B Art Center is a private, non-government funded art center designed to facilitate the exchange of contemporary art between Chicago and the international art community. The 87,000 square feet art center offers innumerable possibilities for exploring the arts in a charismatic location and collectively form an extravagant art center fusing culture and creativity.

The Zhou B Art Center was founded in 2003 by the world renowned artists, the Zhou Brothers. It is now home to several exhibition spaces, a cafe, an art store, galleries and artist studios. It has established itself as the premier venue for internationally recognized art shows and events and continues to galvanize the South Side and the Bridgeport neighborhood as the most interesting new area for the arts in Chicago.



Event information:

Type of Event:  Art Opening

Exhibitions Dates:  January 15 to February 13, 2016

Opening Date/Reception: Friday, January 15, 2016

Time: 7 pm to 10 pm

Location:

Zhou B Art Center

Second Floor Gallery

1029 W. 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609

Gallery Hours: Monday through Saturday 10am to 5pm.

Contact:  708-837-4534 (Sergio Gomez)

Website:  www.zhoubartcenter.com

Chicago Exhibitions. Art NXT Level Projects (formerly 33 Contemporary Gallery). GATEWAY. Curated by Janice Bond

Split Second by Lucy Slivinski (sculptor)

Whether overtly and dynamically, or in subtle, subliminal ways, objects,symbols, and people speak to us. Gateway examines these transmissions, multiple dimensions of reality interweaving biological anatomy with spiritual energies and the psychoerotic.

The connection between mathematics, the human form, and art goes back thousands of years. For example, the Garay alphabet that was devised in 1961 by Assane Faye, a Senegalese artist, is used often as the written language of the Wolof. Abstract signs, ideographs, cosmograms, and symbols are deeply significant in indigenous expression, yet such were often long dismissed as either devoid of meaning or merely ornamental. In a relatively recent paradigm shift, it is now widely acknowledged that abstract or nonrepresentational pattern languages and body gesturing of non-Western traditions often provide cohesive, versatile, complex, and sometimes subversive systems of meaning that inscribe core cultural themes and knowledge.

This exhibition invites the viewer to explore the anatomic to academic; ancestral to abstract channels we utilize to access and communicate with each other.

Featured Artists include:

Jason Mc Phillips

Jerome Lagarrigue

Liz Mares

Lucy Slivinski

Natasha Kohli

Marcus Leslie

Natasha Kohli

Raub Welch

Sadie Woods

Sonja Henderson

Vaughn Spann

About Art NXT Level Projects

Art NXT Level (formerly 33 Contemporary Gallery) is a Chicago-based multidisciplinary space dedicated to equipping and coaching artists to manage their art career. The Project space provides national and international artists with a platform to present art projects and exhibitions of high quality and visionary scope.

 

Event information:

Type of Event:  Art Opening

Exhibitions Dates:  January 15 to February 29, 2016

Opening Date/Reception: Friday, January 15, 2016

Time: 7 pm to 10 pm

Location:

Art NXT Level (4th floor)

Zhou B Art Center 1029 W. 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609

Gallery Hours: Monday through Saturday 10am to 5pm.

Contact:  708-837-4534 (Sergio Gomez)

Website:  www.theartistnextlevel.com

Looking for a New Year’s resolution? How about helping more birds to fly..

Give the birds a helping hand this year

That expensive gym membership may help the way the outside world sees us, but what about committing to a New Year’s resolution that’s good for the soul and great for nature; how about helping more birds to fly? Bird food companyHaith’s is encouraging more of us to take up the hobby of bird feeding and they’re contributing to the cost with their affordable “Help to Fly” range of seeds, feeders and foods.

There’s much written about the benefits of feeding the birds; supplementary bird feeding presents a helping hand when “natural” food is scarce.

Often, this scarcity can be at times of the year when birds require nutritional enrichment such as during the breeding season when dry spells can harden the ground and make it near impossible for ground feeding birds to extract worms – leading to a protein deficiency in the diet when protein is needed for youngsters to develop healthily.

However, there’s very little written about the enjoyment people who feed the birds experience in return for feeding wild birds. It’s almost as if it’s supposed to be a chore.

“Well, it’s most certainly a routine task when done correctly,” explains Simon King, Associate Director of Haith’s, “however; I’d never suggest that it is a chore. Although I do accept that we all have a certain responsibility to feed wild birds because – amongst other things – their habitat has been gradually destroyed leaving their future predominantly resting on their ability to adjust from “wild” to “garden” birds.”

More than half of the UK’s population feed wild birds and the truth is, it’s fun! It’s rewarding and enthusiasts get a great deal of satisfaction from observing bird behaviour and feeding habits as species learn to live together.

“Some days it’s happy families – other days it’s pistols at dawn and survival of the fittest, which in bird language often means survival of the biggest. That said, I’ve seen one or two Robins square up to much larger species when there are mealworms on the bird table!” says Simon. “There’s rarely a dull moment in a busy bird garden.”

Supplementary feeding is good for the birds and it’s good for we humans, too. Plus it can complement other interests; for example, many people enjoy amateur photography and the birds make great subjects; they’re photogenic and a reasonably priced camera will capture their aerobatics and feeding station antics.

Haith’s say that it doesn’t matter how big or how small a bird garden is, all that matters is that more of us decide to feed the birds this year – to begin a wonderful new relationship with wildlife and to enjoy embarking on a New Year’s resolution to engage more with nature.

“What could be more enjoyable than helping more birds to fly this New Year?” asks Simon King. “Give me a charm of Goldfinch raiding a bird feeder bursting with juicy sunflower hearts, and I’ll leave the treadmill and Lycra running shorts to those who look better in motion than me. I’ll keep fit by filling the feeders and watching the birds as they prepare for the breeding season. That’s got to be better than Celebrity Big Brother any day of the week.”

How to get started:

Visit Haith’s “Help to Fly” page as they’ve committed to keeping a range of seeds, feeders and foods available at special prices to encourage more people to help birds fly.

Contact Name: Simon King

Company: Haith’s

Contact Email: simon.king@haiths.com

Contact Phone: 01472 357 515

Company Website: www.haiths.com

5 January 2015

Top TV Shows Today, Jan 5: Chicago Fire, NCIS, Limitless

Well, Christmas is over but we have three great shows. Our Top TV Shows Today are: Chicago Fire. Today’s episode is titled The Beating Heart. Season 4. Episode 10. 6:00 pm. NBC. From Wikipedia: Chicago Fire is an American television drama series that airs on NBC and was created by Michael Brandt and Derek Haas with Dick Wolf serving as an executive producer.

Our second choice is for NCIS. Today: Sister City, Part I. Season 13. Episode 12. 5:00 pm. CBS.

And our last recommendation is for Limitless. Today’s episode: The Assassination of Eddie Morra.

7:00 pm. CBS.

Well, we hope you enjoy the shows and have a very nice day, dear friends.

Top TV Shows Today, January 5 Video: Chicago Fire The Beating Heart Season 4 Episode 10

Famous Birthdays Today, Jan 5: January Jones, Bradley Cooper, Deepika Padukone, Marilyn Manson, Heather Dubrow

Well, she is pretty, she’s a great actress and she’s our Top#1 Famous Birthdays Today, January 5. She’s January Jones and she played the role as Betty Draper on Mad Men. She was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota in 1978 and, from Yareah, we wish her and her family all the best in this special day. Congrats and happy birthday, January Jones!

Famous Birthdays Today, January 5: Actress January Jones at the 60th Annual Emmy Awards, Nokia Theatre, Sept. 21, 2008. Source: flickr. Author: Kristin Dos Santos

If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don’t always last. Maybe I’m a pessimistic person. When something just seems too good, I can’t believe it.

January Jones

I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale.

January Jones

Famous Birthdays Today, January 5: Bradley Cooper in Paris at the French premiere of “American Hustle”. Source: Wikipedia. Author: Georges Biard

And today is also the birthday of the actor Bradley Cooper. He’s handsome and he’s a fantastic actor. Congratulations and all the best of luck too.

There’s got to be something you want to tell and that’s the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you’re telling to be a filmmaker.

Bradley Cooper

If you’re a single man and you happen to be in this business, you’re deemed a player. But I don’t see myself as a ladies’ man.

Bradley Cooper

More famous birthdays today, January 5: Deepika Padukone, Bollywood star born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1986; Marilyn Manson, eccentric singer born in Canton, OH in 1969; and Heather Dubrow, star on Real Housewives of Orange County.

Happy birthday to all of them. Have a very nice day, dear friends.

Famous Birthdays Today, January 5 Video: January Jones Is a Throwback Thursday Pro

Princess Charlene of Monaco and Queen Letizia of Spain are always among the stylish women

Princess Charlene of Monaco and Queen Letizia of Spain rock! Who have been the most stylish royal women during 2015? Who will be trend in 2016? Difficult question but Princess Charlene of Monaco and Queen Letizia of Spain are always in the lists of the prettiest princesses and queens? What do you think?

Princess Charlene of Monaco. Photo attribution brunifia on flickr

Princess Charlene of Monaco is the wife of Prince Albert II. She was a former Olympic swimmer for South Africa winning three gold medals and a silver medal at the 1999 All-Africa Games in Johannesburg, and her body is perfect. People also admire her sweet face and elegant style. A great personality!

Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano is the Queen of Spain as the wife of King Felipe VI, who ascended on 19 June 2014 on the abdication of his father King Juan Carlos I. From then, she has been promoting Spanish fashion and her style as well as her daughters’ designs are world trend.

People also love Princess Haya of Jordan, Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, the Queen Consort of Bhutan Jetsun, the fresh style of Princess Kate Middleton, and the smooth elegance of Queen Rania of Jordan.

How about Princess Ameera al-Taweel. She is a Saudi Arabian princess and philanthropist. She assumed the role of Vice Chairperson of Al-Waleed bin Talal Foundation and is a member of the board of trustees at Silatech.

Of course, everybody also likes the fresh style of Princess Madeleine of Sweden and her eternal smile.

What do you think? In your opinion, who are the top ten most beautiful and stylish royal women? Tell us your opinion now.

Princess Charlene of Monaco and Queen Letizia of Spain are always among the stylish women. Take a look at this video!

Enjoy your day, Yareah friends. Art is everywhere and up to you!

Jamie Dornan in 2016. Three films are in post-production

Jamie Dornan in 2016. After the big success of ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ by Sam Taylor-Johnson, where Dornan plays as Christian Grey, the actor had a busy time. Now, three films are in post-production: ‘The 9th Life of Louis Drax,’ ‘Jadotville,’ and Anthropoid. What do you expect from sexy actor Jamie Dornan during this year? Today, some important clues.

Jamie Dornan in 2016. Jadotville film

Jamie Dornan will co-star in the film ‘The 9th Life of Louis Drax’ alongside Sarah Gadon and Aaron Paul. ‘The 9th Life of Louis Drax’ by Alexandre Aja is a supernatural thriller based on Liz Jensen’s best-selling novel of the same title. Jamie Dornan plays as Dr. Allan Pascal, who is looking for the dark circumstances behind Louis Drax accident in his nine birthday.

Also in post-production is ‘Jadotville’ by Richie Smyth. Dornan plays as Pat Quinlan, an Irish Commandant who leaded a stand off with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during in the early 1960s.

Jamie Dornan

Anthropoid by Sean Ellis tells the Second World War story of Operation Anthropoid, an attempt by Czechoslovakia exile soldiers to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, one of the main architects of the Holocaust. Jamie Dornan plays as Jan Kubiš, a Czech soldier who died following this successful assassination.

“You want roles that challenge you and that scare you a little and where you can really discover something, even about yourself, that maybe you didn’t understand.” Jamie Dornan.

Jamie Dornan in 2016. Anthropoid rocks! Take a look!

Enjoy your day, Yareah friends. Art is everywhere and up to you!

“It’s funny when you know you’re playing two characters and you’re aware of how you have to play each one into your performance of the other. You’re constantly at the back of your mind thinking and it all gets a bit confusing.” Jamie Dornan.

Teapot Trust Founder Awarded MBE in Queen’s New Year Honours List

Laura Young MBE

Laura Young, founder of East Lothian-based charity theTeapot Trust, has received a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queen’s New Year Honours List in recognition of her services to chronically ill children in Scotland.

Laura and husband John Young founded the Teapot Trust in 2010 after seeing the gaps in the care of their daughter Verity, who suffered from Lupus (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus) and also cancer before her tragic death, aged just eight, in 2009.

The Teapot Trust provides hospital-based art therapy to children with chronic illnesses in seven Scottish towns and cities: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Dundee, Aberdeen, Kirkcaldy and Melrose, plus Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.

In 2015, the Teapot Trust provided over 3,000 hours of art therapy and interacted with 5,215 children.

On receiving the award, Laura Young said, “Being given an MBE is a great honour and it is wonderful to have recognised the work that we’ve been doing over the last five years. Of course, the award is testament to the contribution of our therapists, support team, volunteers and very kind donors, who make our work possible.

“Our operations are steadily expanding and although we are incredibly proud of what we’ve achieved in 2015 we want to place more art therapists in hospitals further afield to help more children with medicalised routines next year.”

Being named in the New Year Honours List is the latest of many awards and recognitions that Laura and the Teapot Trust received in 2015. In December the charity received two awards at the Charity Champions Awards: Charity of The Year (income under £250,000) and Children’s Charity of The Year.

Laura and John Young, co-founders of the Trust, were named Points of Light by David Cameron in June and Laura was given an honorary doctorate from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh in July.

Renowned Scottish artist and playwright John Byrne also donated his painting ‘West of 8th’ to the charity, which was auctioned by Lyon & Turnbull for a staggering £20,000 in in December.

The Teapot Trust provides art therapy in medical settings for children with chronic illnesses. Laura said, “Art therapy is a powerful tool and makes a huge difference to the lives of chronically ill children.

“One of the most difficult things for many children is expressing themselves verbally – the great thing about art therapy is that it provides an alternative medium of communication.

“This builds confidence, which helps children cope with their conditions.

“If children are worried about being in hospital, or for example frightened of needles, art therapy can also be used to help them to relax.”

The main focus of 2016 for the charity is to continue providing its current services and fundraise for a programme of research. It also hopes to begin one-on-one work in the Borders and begin a group art therapy session in the outpatients department of St John’s Hospital, West Lothian.

The Teapot Trust also hopes to raise enough funds to start providing art therapy to the remaining six NHS regions of the Scottish Paediatric and Adolescent Rheumatology Network (SPARN).

It receives no statutory funding and, with little confirmed year-on-year income and no investments, relies completely on donations to continue its operations.

Timeline:

1990

Laura graduated from the University of Bristol in Chemistry, BSc Hons Graduate Trainee, Science Museum, London

1992

Junior Curator, Medical Collections & Science Box exhibition team

1995

Visitor Services Manager at Exploris Aquarium, Portaferry Northern Ireland

1997

Project manager in Visitor Attractions industry in Northern Ireland

2000

Full-time mother and carer

2005

With husband wrote the children’s book Sandy Starfish

2010

Registered charity set up: Founder and Chair of Trustees Teapot Trust, and fundraising begins

2011

Edinburgh RHSC Rheumatology Group begins 26 September (first provision of art therapy)

2012

Edinburgh RHSC Oncology Ward 2

One-to-one art therapy at RHSC Edinburgh

Glasgow RHSC Yorkhill Rheumatology Group

CHAS Rachel House Hospice

Glasgow 1-2-1 Art Therapy

Runner up in Clarins and YOU Magazine, Most Dynamisante Woman of the Year

2013

Dundee Paediatric Rheumatology Group at Tayside Children’s Hospital

(Ninewells Hospital)

Part-time book Finance Manager Starts

Winner Inspiring Volunteer Achievement Award, City of Edinburgh Council

Family Hero for Scotland 2013

4Children and Take a Break Magazine Awards 2013

Part time Project Manager starts

2014

Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital Rheumatology Group

Tayside Children’s Hospital, Ninewells, Dundee 1-2-1 art therapy

Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, Paediatric Rheumatology Group

Administrator and Community Fund-raiser employed

Clinical Manager Employed

CEO role created

Laura named Tesco Charitable Mum of the Year

Teapot Trust celebrates its fourth birthday party

Teapot Trust operating in 6 Scottish cities and expansion plans announced

2015

Grants assistant employed

Laura and John Young named Points of Light by David Cameron

Laura Young awarded honorary doctorate from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh

‘West of 8th’, donated by artist John Byrne, sold for £20,000

Teapot Trust named Charity of the Year (income under £250,000) and Children’s Charity of the Year at Charity Champions Awards

2016

Laura Young awarded an MBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours List

Former Fujitsu CTO appointed to enhance quality and innovation at Advanced Computer Software Group

Jon Wrennall

New CTO will take Advanced’s product suite to the next level

4 January 2016 – One of the UK’s fastest growing software companies, Advanced Computer Software Group Ltd. (Advanced), today announces the appointment of Jon Wrennall as the new Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Wrennall will focus on enhancing the quality and innovation at Advanced, taking the software development/product suite to the next level.

A renowned thought leader in the technology sector, Wrennall brings 20 years’ experience to his new role. He spent the last five years as CTO of Fujitsu UK and Ireland, overseeing 1,200 architects and driving change across all areas of the business. During his time there, the company, which has an annual turnover of £1.7 billion, grew from a largely public sector client base to nearly 50% private sector.

Prior to moving to Fujitsu, Wrennall served as Chief Information Officer, Transformation Director and SIRO at the Valuation Office Agency (VOA).Before joining the VOA, he served as Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs’ first Chief Technology Officer, leading the integration of the former Inland Revenue and Customs & Excise organisations.

At both organisations, he drove savings of £600 million and led IT and business transformations that have helped shape how UK businesses interface with the public sector.

Wrennall will lead in a collaborative, quick paced environment, where he will enhance the quality and innovation of Advanced’s products.

Wrennall says, “I cannot think of a better time to join Advanced. The business is going through an exciting period of growth and is investing heavily in software development, so I see this as a massive opportunity to build on the broad set of products and services.

“I am looking forward to working with the team to create and deliver truly world class solutions that will enable our customers to compete and to win in a digital enabled world. Without question, Advanced is one of the most dynamic IT companies in the UK and I am eager to be part of their ongoing success story.”

Gordon Wilson, CEO, Advanced Computer Software Group says, “Jon’s appointment as our new CTO is an excellent start to the new year and is an example of the calibre of senior executives who are inspired to join Advanced.

“He brings unrivalled experience to the role as well as a passion for technology and proven leadership skills, which will further enhance our products and take us closer to our goal of becoming a world class business.”

Wrennall is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the British Computer Society, founding Fujitsu Fellow and member of the Advisory Board for leading application intelligence company, AppDynamics.

A strong believer in recognising and harnessing talent, Jon founded the Fujitsu Distinguished Engineer Programme, recognising technology and excellence of role models who are shaping the industry. He will replace James Berry, who developed Adastra, a leading patient management system used by 90% of urgent care organisations across the UK and Ireland.

Founded in 2008, Advanced employs more than 2,000 members of staff and provides healthcare, business and learning management software and services to 20,000 customers. The Group was acquired by private equity firm, Vista Equity Partners (Vista) for an enterprise value of £750 million in March 2015.