Bob Hodgson is the managing director of Zernike (UK). He has over twenty years of international business experience. Prior to the launching of Zernike (UK), Bob was for 14 years an executive director of SQW Ltd., which is best known for its path-breaking study The Cambridge Phenomenon, published in 1983 and recently updated with an analysis of the position among high tech firms in the Cambridge region in 1999. Bob remains on the board of SQW as a non-executive director.
He is a non-executive director of Emerging Market Economics, a specialist economics consultancy offering services to the private sector and international financial institutions interested in emerging markets. Prior to his time with SQW, he spent 8 years with the consultancy side of Coopers & Lybrand, working internationally from a London base.