User:Thorley
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Les Thorley is English, born in 1944. Before the age of ten he had spent half his life in Egypt as a result of his father's UK Government assignment to that country.
In his early teens he spent further years overseas and at the age of 25, and educated in Radio & Radar Communications, he departed the UK for Canada where he worked in northern Labrador. This was followed by four years in Iran, a year in Greece and over three years in Saudi Arabia. Returning to Greece in 1979 he found himself assigned to the Middle East and North Africa business of his employer (Hewlett-Packard). In late 1982 he was re-assigned to Amsterdam to manage the support business of the Nordic Region, followed by a new assignment in 1985 to Geneva where he was responsible for 75 territories and countries in Europe (including communist East European countries), Africa and the Middle East.
This was followed by one year for a Swiss company in Athens before joining a large Greek IT company where he remained until 2001. He departed Greece in 2005 for the UK after forty years of international travel and residence. He now runs his own business in the UK (http://www.t-data.co.uk) and occasionally travels overseas for pleasure.
