Jason Kingdon


Jason Kingdon is a mathematician, computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is currently CEO and Executive Chairman of Blue Prism and co-founder of several AI companies.

Education

Kingdon did his undergraduate degree in pure mathematics at Queen Mary University of London, masters in Mathematical Logic and Theory Computation at the University of Bristol and his PhD in Computer Science at University College London. His PhD thesis was on feed-forward Neural Networks and genetic algorithms for automated financial time series modelling.

Career

Kingdon was one of the earliest pioneers in applying AI for enterprise-scale problems starting in the mid-nineties.

1995

While being a PhD student at UCL, Kingdon co-founded Searchspace and also co-founded the Intelligent Systems Lab. Searchspace pioneered the application of AI to detect money laundering, detect insider dealing detection at banks including RBS, Barclays, Wells Fargo, and stock exchanges including the London Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange. In 2005, Kingdon sold Searchspace to Warburg Pincus for $140 million.

2008-Present

Kingdon became an early investor in Blue Prism, a Robotic Process Automation company, a category of enterprise software that it helped define. He led business strategy and successful IPO in 2016. As of 2020, Kingdon is the CEO and Executive Chairman of Blue Prism. Blue Prism software provides a ‘digital workforce’ to organisations that carry out tasks in the same way that existing users currently do. Blue Prism has more than 1,677 global customers across 70 commercial sectors, and with users in more than 170 countries, including names like Siemens, Walgreens and eBay.

Awards

Kingdon received the 2003 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, and on behalf of Searchspace received Deloitte Fast 50 list of fastest growing technology companies in 2002 and 2005, and the Sunday Times’ Tech Track 100 in 2002 and 2005.

Publications

Several books, patents and papers have been authored by Kingdon in the fields of neural networks, genetic algorithms, fraud detection, robotic process automation and the future of enterprise computing.
His patents include: Method and system for combating robots and rogues and System and supervision procedure.