Stephen Bernard Streater (born 1965) is a British technology

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Career

In 1990, he co-founded

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, a company specialising in

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and

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s, particularly for computers running the

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operating system. He later sold and left Eidos, which had moved into the

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market.

Personal life

Streater is married to Victoria Jane (née Fantl) and has three daughters. Streater's father,

Ray Streater Raymond Frederick Streater (born 1936) is a British physicist, and professor emeritus of Applied Mathematics at King's College London. He is best known for co-authoring a text on quantum field theory, the 1964 ''PCT, Spin and Statistics and Al ...

, is a professor of mathematics at

King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public university, public research university in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of George IV of the United Kingdom, King George IV ...

References

1965 births Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Alumni of King's College London English businesspeople Living people {{UK-business-bio-1960s-stub