Andy Harter

Who is Andy Harter?

Andy Harter FREng CEng FIET FBCS CITP is a British computer scientist, best known as the founder and CEO of RealVNC.

Born in Yorkshire in 1961, Harter attended the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Wakefield. He went on to the University of Cambridge, where he studied Mathematics and Computer Science at Fitzwilliam College and Corpus Christi College. His doctoral thesis, supervised by Andy Hopper, was judged the best UK Computer Science dissertation of 1990, and was published by Cambridge University Press. He subsequently became a Fellow of St Edmund's College and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. He is probably best known for VNC, a ubiquitous remote access technology he developed in the mid 90s. He founded RealVNC in 2002 and remains its Chief Executive. In recent years he has worked on embedding the technology in Google and Intel products. Under his leadership, in 2013 the company received its third Queen's Award for Enterprise in three years and he was named the Cambridge Businessman of the Year in 2011.