Interview · 19 March 2019
On the record with the Archives of IT.
Sir Peter sits down with Richard Sharpe for the Archives of IT - the British national archive of the UK information-technology sector - at the Rigby Group offices in Stratford-Upon-Avon. An hour on the boy from Crosby who set his heart on the RAF, the £2,000 recruitment business that became Europe's largest privately owned IT services group, and the philosophy of staying private.
Audio · Archives of IT
Sir Peter Rigby in conversation with Richard Sharpe
Capturing the past, inspiring the future
From the conversation
When I was about ten or eleven, I decided my career would be in aviation. And that is something that stuck with me throughout my life.
I had few contacts, but nonetheless, through my mother I ended up with an interview with a company called NCR, National Cash Register. And over the next five years I obtained a really good grounding in the basics of technology at that time.
Two years ago I was commissioned in the Auxiliary Air Force as a Group Captain, 601 Squadron. And I now advise senior leadership members of the Royal Air Force. It is an absolute privilege.
Transcript
The conversation, in full.
An hour and thirteen minutes of plain speaking. The Liverpool grammar-school boy, the £2,000 recruitment business, the seventy-five acquisitions, and the return to the Royal Air Force - in the words of the man who lived it.
~51 min read
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Audio and transcript © Archives of IT, the British national archive of the UK information-technology sector. Registered charity 1164198.