Peter Thompson became Chief Technical Officer of Predictable Network Solutions in 2012 after several years as Chief Scientist of GoS Networks (formerly U4EA Technologies). Prior to that, he was CEO and one of the founders (together with Neil Davies) of Degree2 Innovations, a company established to commercialise advanced research into network QoS/QoE, which was undertaken during the four years that he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Partnership in Advanced Computing Technology in Bristol, England. Previously, he spent eleven years at STMicroelectronics (formerly INMOS), where one of his numerous patents for parallel computing and communications received a corporate World-Wide Technical Achievement Award. For five years, he was the Subject Editor for VLSI and Architectures of the journal Microprocessors and Microsystems, which is published by Elsevier. He has degrees in mathematics and physics from the Universities of Warwick and Cambridge, and he spent five years doing research in general relativity and quantum theory at the University of Oxford. Since 2017, he has also been a System Performance Scientist with IOHK, researching blockchain performance.