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Dr. Christopher J. Horn was an electronics graduate in 1978, and received his PhD in Computer Science in 1983. From 1984 until 1994, he was a lecturer in the Computer Science Department at Trinity College, Dublin, where he was involved in many pan-European IT research projects involving distributed computing. He also worked in Brussels, Belgium for the European Commission, and was an integral part of the ten-year "Esprit" program designed to improve the continent's technology industry.
Dr. Christopher J. Horn is co-founder and currently vice chairman of the board and co-founder of IONA Technologies (established 1991) Dublin, Ireland. He was the initial developer of Orbix® and held the joint offices of IONA's president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board from IONA's inception until May 2000. He served as the chairman of the board of IONA from May 2000 to May 2003 when he re-assumed the CEO position, a post he held until his appointment to vice-chairman in April 2005.
Dr. Horn has been a non-executive director of a number of privately held software companies and business associations and advisor to a number of venture capital firms. He is a former Director of Science Foundation Ireland, a former chair of the "Expert Group on Future Skills", Ireland's Educational Technology Investment Fund, and former chair of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce eCity working group; and a former chairman of the Irish Management Institute. Dr Horn regularly contributes to debate on Ireland's high-tech industry and is a member of the Information & Communications Technology (ICT) working group at IBEC and was the founding chairman of the Ireland China Association. Dr Horn is a former member of the Board of Trinity College Dublin.
He is currently the non-executive chairman of China Crest Professionals, a Beijing based consultancy firm specialising in investment in China; the non-executive chairman of Cloudsmith, a US and Swedish based company offering novel services to the global software development community; and non-executive chairman of LeCayla, an Irish firm offering billing and metering services for software vendors offering pay-as-you-go and SaaS business models. He is the non executive chairman of the strategic board of CTVR, a major national telecommunications research project in the areas of cognitive radio, dynamic spectrum management and advanced photonics, and involving in particular Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, TCD and a number of Irish Universities. He is also the non executive chairman of the Science Gallery, a novel outreach facility to the public on matters of national science policy.
Dr. Horn is vice president of the chartered engineering body in Ireland, Engineers Ireland. He has been involved with a number of charities and is currently the non executive chairman of UNICEF Ireland.
In 2001 he received an honorary Doctor of Science from Trinity College Dublin and became an honorary Fellow of Engineers Ireland. Dr Horn also received the Gold Medal for Industry from the Industry and Commerce Committee of the Royal Dublin Society in the same year.
He blogs fairly regularly at http://chrishornat.blogspot.com | 