Simon Coles
Co-Founder & CEO at Amphora Research Systems Ltd.
Greater Reading Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Coles is a seasoned software entrepreneur and CEO with 17 years of experience leading Amphora Research Systems, the creator of the first commercial Electronic Laboratory Notebook, and sustaining a privately owned company serving global customers. He combines product-focused engineering leadership with a long-standing interest in Clean Language, founding consulting and foundation efforts to improve organisational conversations and help teams collaborate more effectively. A trained information systems engineer (MEng, University of Surrey) who cut his teeth on early web and Lotus Notes projects, he brings practical systems thinking from Motorola and large ELN deployments to long-term product stewardship. Simon’s background reveals a rare blend of hands-on technical delivery, commercial product build-out, and attention to human communication practices that improve how organisations learn and work together.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Gresham's SchoolMEng Information Systems Engineering, MEng Information Systems Engineering at University of Surrey
Github Skills (2)
pdf4
pdf-generation3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Better-Conversations/betterconversations.foundation
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
The web site at betterconversations.foundation
Contributions:3 reviews, 29 PRs, 111 pushes in 5 months
Amphora-Community/systemic-modelling-guide
Dec 2020 - Apr 2021
Systemic Modelling Guide
Contributions:2 reviews, 37 PRs, 46 pushes in 3 months
modelling
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