Allan Boyd

Allan has been COO at AetherWorks for the last 7 years and is Co-founder for distributed computing products FogCoin & ActiveAether, and AetherStore. Allan is on the board of advisors at mixed reality firm Eazel, is a member of the Forbes New York City Business Council, a contributor on the Forbes network, and co-author of the FogBlog at InfoWorld, by IDG.

He received a B.Sc. with Honors in Computer Science from the University of St Andrews in 2005, ranked the number one computer science program in the UK, and was the winner of the Enterprising Mathematics Scotland award.

A seasoned entrepreneur, Allan brings extensive experience in the wireless sector. He bootstrapped his first company, ITOnsite, where he won the Scottish Institute for Enterprise award for “Best Overall Business” in 2005. In 2008 he returned to wireless from finance to join the management team at Kelvin Connect. Overseeing the deployment of their solution throughout the UK, he led the company through its acquisition by Airwave Solutions, now Motorola, in 2011.