Steve Shirley

For the professional baseball player, see Steve Shirley (baseball).

Dame
Steve Shirley
CH DBE FREng DFBCS
Shirley in 2013
Born
Vera Stephanie Buchthal[1]

(1933-09-16) 16 September 1933 (age 91)
Dortmund, Nazi Germany
Occupation(s)Businesswoman and philanthropist
Organization(s)Freelance Programmers (Xansa, now part of SopraSteria)
The Shirley Foundation; Oxford Internet Institute; Autism at Kingwood; Prior's Court Foundation; Autistica; Autism Cymru; All-Party Parliamentary Group on Autism
Known forPhilanthropy and founding the IT company Freelance Programmers (now part of Sopra Steria)
AwardsFREng (2001)
CHM Fellow (2018)
HonoursDBE
CH
Multiple doctorates
Websitesteveshirley.com
Steve Shirley's voice
Recorded May 2010 from the BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs
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Dame Vera Stephanie "Steve" Shirley CH, DBE, , FREng, DFBCS (previously Brook, née Buchthal; born 16 September 1933) is an information technology pioneer, businesswoman and philanthropist (naturalised British in 1951).[2][3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference shropstar was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Beaty, Zoe (14 June 2019). "The 85-year-old tech entrepreneur who made her staff millionaires". The Telegraph – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  3. ^ Smale, Will (17 June 2019). "I just got fed up with the sexism. It was everywhere". BBC News.