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Stephen B. Streater

Stephen Streater founded a company with £1m of venture capital whilst still at university. Having graduated in Mathematics from Cambridge University, he was too busy to complete his thesis for a PhD at King's College London, having founded Eidos, the data compression company.

Eidos, which went on to acquire Tomb Raider and Lara Croft, became one of the fastest growing companies of the 1990s, with huge success in the electronic games industry. Stephen left Eidos in 1998, which had then become a games marketing company.

Following a brief retirement, Stephen soon returned to data compression, by founding Forbidden Technologies plc, in 1998. The company has been active since 1999, specialising in video compression technology, following on from the groundbreaking work started at Eidos in 1990.
 

The company began with an intense burst of technology development, leading to the first product launch in 2001, preceded by a successful AIM-listed flotation of shares in February 2000. Stephen is a true visionary. "We want to be pushing the frontiers of technology and mankind's knowledge. We want millions, if not billions, of people to benefit from our technology" he said in March 2000.

Forbidden is a technology pioneer, creating video and audio products for the mobile and internet markets. Its software enables video playback over the Internet using a standard modem connection. In February 2005 Forbidden announced a deal with GMTV to stream the breakfast programme live to its network of field reporters on location across the world. Stephen was recently quoted as saying: "The fact that four MPs used it in the run up to the election demonstrates it must be easy to use."

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