Simon David Buckingham. Late 20th century English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 information society

Information society

The aim of the information society is to gain competitive advantage internationally through using IT in a creative and productive way. An information society is a society in which the creation, distribution, diffusion, use, integration and manipulation of information is a significant economic,...

 theorist. The originator of the term unorganisation

Unorganisation

Unorganisation is an approach to organisational structure and design that consciously removes or avoids layers of management and bureaucracy, eschews job titles, and instead attempts to operate with the minimum of formal structure so as to become as flexible and effective as possible.Unorganisation...

.

Biography

Simon Buckingham created and published in 1996 the unorganisation philosophy. Subsequently, Simon became a serial entrepreneur, founding his first start up in 1999. Mobile Lifestreams as it was initially called started out as a research and consulting company with Simon authoring the "Yes 2 SMS" report that accurately predicted the success of the SMS text messaging service. Renamed Mobile Streams, Simon registered and launched the domain name and service ringtones.com. Mobile Streams completed its Initial Public Offering in February 2006 (LSE:MOS). At the same time, Liberty Media, the U.S. content company became a strategic investor in the company.

In January 2006, Simon Buckingham also become the CEO of Zoombak, a provider of GPS devices and services for family safety and enterprise applications. Zoombak is owned by Liberty Media but managed by Simon and Mobile Streams. More than 100,000 Zoombak devices had been shipped by October 2009.

In 2010, Simon founded his third start up in New York Appitalism, Inc. (http://www.appitalism.com). Launched in September 2010 in 51 countries, Appitalism is an open app store for the democratic discovery of digital and mobile apps and content including music, apps, games, eBooks and videos.

Born in Oxford, England, Simon has been based in New York since 2005.