Laurence Holt
Chief Product Officer and Executive Vice President

Laurence Holt oversees product development at Wireless Generation. He leads product strategy and management for the company and oversees the engineering, design, and production of the company's software solutions.

Prior to joining Wireless Generation, Holt founded Quidnunc, a business and technology consulting firm with clients such as Apple Computer, Sprint, the BBC, and Goldman Sachs. As CEO and later Chairman of Quidnunc, Holt led major consulting engagements; facilitated more than 100 workshops; spoke frequently at events such as The Economist CIO conference; authored papers on Customer Interaction and E-Commerce; and ran two private equity rounds raising $30 million. He also joined the Board of Directors of the Computing Software and Services Association.

Under Holt’s leadership, Quidnunc grew to 300 people with offices in London, New York, and San Francisco. Quidnunc also won the prestigious Economist Knowledge Culture Award for Europe.

More recently, Holt followed a long-time interest in knowledge acquisition and learning processes by founding Stikky, a publisher of research-driven instructional books on topics ranging from weight management to tree identification. In addition, Holt has written three award-winning books.

Previously a bond trader with Credit Suisse First Boston, Holt also created "multi-user calendaring" software, which was acquired by Microsoft. The application was named Microsoft Schedule+, and was later integrated into Microsoft Outlook.

Holt holds a First Class BSc(Eng) Hons in Computing Science from Imperial College London.