Tom Robert Rowbotham

Dr. Rowbotham came to Vesbridge from St. Paul Venture Capital, where he has been a venture partner since retiring from British Telecom in 2000.
Dr. Rowbotham has served as a director or advisor to a number of Vesbridge portfolio companies, including Granite Networks, Optical Solutions, Teltier, and Visage.
Dr. Rowbotham has been instrumental in driving the major carrier business development initiative for the networking companies in the Vesbridge portfolio.
Prior to SPVC, he was with BT since 1964, serving most recently as Director of Technology.
Dr. Rowbotham was also Senior Vice President of Concert and General Manager and Director of several of BT’s organizations with responsibility for upward of 3000 people.
In addition to his 35 year career at British Telecom, Dr. Rowbotham also founded Kimberley Communications, which was acquired by Flomerics and where he is currently the Deputy Chairman.
Dr. Rowbotham has been very active with many significant technology boards, serving as a director of IEEE, and is currently a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers.
He also served at Intelsat where he was Chief of Communications R&D, in Washington DC.
Dr. Rowbotham holds a B.Sc.
from Queens University, Belfast, a M.Sc from the University of Surreya, and a PhD from the University of Nottingham.
He is a director for Flomerics.