# Jason Kingdon

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**Jason Kingdon** is a computer scientist and entrepreneur. He was previously CEO of [Blue Prism](/source/Blue_Prism)[1][2][3] and co-founder of several [AI](/source/Artificial_intelligence) companies.[4] He was co-founder of UCL's Intelligent Systems Lab where he introduced the use of a neural network in live financial forecasting,[4] and co-founder and CEO of Searchspace, a company that applied AI to detect money laundering and detect insider dealing at banks and stock exchanges.[5] In 2008, he joined Blue Prism as executive chairman. The company has been credited with creating the Robotic Process Automation market.[6]

## Education

Kingdon completed his undergraduate degree in pure mathematics at [Queen Mary University of London](/source/Queen_Mary_University_of_London), masters in Mathematical Logic and Theory Computation at the [University of Bristol](/source/University_of_Bristol) and his PhD in Computer Science at [University College London](/source/University_College_London).[4] His PhD thesis was on feed-forward Neural Networks (NN) and genetic algorithms for automated financial time series modelling.[7]

## Career

Since the mid-1990s, Kingdon has worked on applying AI to enterprise-scale problems.

While a PhD student at UCL, he co-founded Searchspace and also co-founded the Intelligent Systems Lab.[4][8] Searchspace applied AI to detect [money laundering](/source/Money_laundering), detect [insider dealing](/source/Insider_dealing) detection at banks[5] and [stock exchanges](/source/Stock_exchange).[6] In 2005, he sold Searchspace to [Warburg Pincus](/source/Warburg_Pincus) for $140 million.[9][10]

Kingdon became an early investor in Blue Prism, a [Robotic Process Automation](/source/Robotic_Process_Automation) (RPA) company,[9] a category of enterprise software that it helped define.[6] He led business strategy and the IPO in 2016. As of 2020, he is the CEO and chairman of the company.[1][11] The company's software provides a 'digital workforce' to organisations that carry out tasks the same way existing users do. It has over 2000 customers in 70 commercial sectors, and in more than 170 countries.[12]

In 2020 in an article for *[Computer Weekly](/source/Computer_Weekly)*, Kingdon introduced the notion of the Digital Singularity where he pointed out that a consequence of robotic process automation was that all digital technologies past, present, and future could now interoperate. He suggests this will usher a new phase of hyper-acceleration of digital technologies akin to the invention of a new Internet.[13]

## Awards

Kingdon received the 2003 [Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year](/source/Ernst_%26_Young_Entrepreneur_of_the_Year),[citation needed] and on behalf of Searchspace received [Deloitte Fast 50](/source/Deloitte_Fast_50) list of fastest growing technology companies in 2002 and 2005,[14] and the *[Sunday Times](/source/Sunday_Times)*’ [Tech Track 100](/source/Tech_Track_100) in 2002 and 2005.[15]

## Publications

Kingdon has published books,[16] patents[17] and papers[18] in the fields of [neural networks](/source/Neural_network), [genetic algorithms](/source/Genetic_algorithm), [fraud detection](/source/Fraud_detection), robotic process automation and the future of enterprise computing.[19]

His patents include: "Method and system for combating robots and rogues"[17] and "Value flow monitoring system".[20]

## References

1. ["Blue Prism Rehires Jason Kingdon As Executive Chair Amid Growth"](https://web.archive.org/web/20200205170149/https://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/news/AN_1571732114008145500/blue-prism-rehires-jason-kingdon-as-executive-chair-amid-growth.aspx). *MorningStar*. 22 October 2019. Archived from [the original](https://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/news/AN_1571732114008145500/blue-prism-rehires-jason-kingdon-as-executive-chair-amid-growth.aspx) on 5 February 2020. Retrieved 21 September 2020.

1. ["What Office Life Might Look Like In The Year 2030"](https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-office-life-might-look-like-in-the-year-2030-11583362501). *The Wall Street Journal*. 2020-03-05. Retrieved 2020-04-01.

1. ["Blue Prism To Raise GBP100 Million Via Placing; CEO Bathgate To Depart"](https://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/news/AN_1587399898171970500/blue-prism-to-raise-gbp100-million-via-placing;-ceo-bathgate-to-depart.aspx). *Morningstar*. Retrieved 2020-04-23.[dead link]

1. ["Commercialising RPA - Blue Prism Chairman on "a technology that got invented in the UK - and no-one even noticed""](https://diginomica.com/commercialising-rpa-blue-prism-chairman-technology-got-invented-uk-and-no-one-even-noticed). *Diginomica*. 29 October 2019.

1. ["Searchspace raises $5.5m from Scottish Equity Partners"](https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/12415/searchspace-raises-55m-from-scottish-equity-partners). *Finextra Research*. 2004-09-01. Retrieved 2020-03-17.

1. ["From Communism To Coding: How Daniel Dines Of $7 Billion UiPath Became The First Bot Billionaire"](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2019/09/11/from-communism-to-coding-how--daniel-dines-of-7-billion-uipath-became-the-first-bot-billionaire/). *Forbes*. 2019-09-11.

1. Kingdon, J. C. (1995). [*Feed forward neural networks and genetic algorithms for automated financial time series modelling*](https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1318052/)

1. ["Blue Prism Group Board Changes"](https://markets.ft.com/data/announce/detail?dockey=1323-14274500-4OSH085B666IKST6A3BCBFHIRI). 2019-10-22.

1. ["Why RPA? Blue Prism chairperson exaplains why RPA is a game changer"](https://www.information-age.com/why-rpa-blue-prism-chairperson-jason-kingdon-rpa-is-a-game-changer-123485759/). *Information Age*. 2019-10-17. Retrieved 2020-01-23.

1. TWK (2019-03-28). ["Fast Track"](https://web.archive.org/web/20200205170147/https://www.fasttrack.co.uk/blue-prism/). *Fast Track*. Archived from [the original](https://www.fasttrack.co.uk/blue-prism/) on 5 February 2020. Retrieved 2020-01-23.

1. ["Blue Prism se presenta en España tras disparar sus beneficios en todo el mundo"](https://web.archive.org/web/20200924110724/https://www.capital.es/2020/03/23/blue-prism-se-presenta-en-espana-tras-disparar-sus-beneficios-en-todo-el-mundo/) (in Spanish). *Capital*. 2020-03-23. Archived from [the original](https://www.capital.es/2020/03/23/blue-prism-se-presenta-en-espana-tras-disparar-sus-beneficios-en-todo-el-mundo/) on 24 September 2020. Retrieved 2020-04-02.

1. ["Blue Prism's executive chairman discusses the rise of RPA"](https://www.information-age.com/blue-prisms-executive-chairman-discusses-the-rise-of-rpa-123488013/). 2020-03-09.

1. ["The automation revolution is happening now - Data Matters"](https://www.computerweekly.com/blog/Data-Matters/The-automation-revolution-is-happening-now). *www.computerweekly.com*. Retrieved 2020-09-30.

1. ["Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50"](https://www.deloitte.co.uk/fast50/winners/previous-winners/index.html). *UK Technology Fast 50*

1. ["Fast Track"](https://web.archive.org/web/20200919123909/https://www.fasttrack.co.uk/league-tables/tech-track-100/). *Fast Track*. Archived from [the original](https://www.fasttrack.co.uk/league-tables/tech-track-100/) on 19 September 2020. Retrieved 21 September 2020.

1. [*Intelligent Systems and Financial Forecasting | Jason Kingdon | Springer*](https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783540760986)

1. "A method and system for combating robots and rogues". No. 2002056157.

1. Kingdon, J. (May 2004). "AI fights money laundering". *IEEE Intelligent Systems*. **19** (3): 87–89. [Bibcode:2004IISys..19c..87K](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004IISys..19c..87K). [doi:10.1109/MIS.2004.1](https://doi.org/10.1109/MIS.2004.1)

1. Kingdon, Jason (17 January 2014). ["Software Robots: The Long Tail of Automation"](https://www.wired.com/insights/2014/01/software-robots-long-tail-automation/). *Wired*

1. "Value flow monitoring system". No. 2321751.

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