Andrew Pinder, CBE, (5 May 1947 – 9 April 2017) led the Office of the e-Envoy from 2000 to 2004, reporting directly to the prime minister, Tony Blair.
Pinder's most high-profile position was as the e-Envoy between October 2000 and August 2004, when he was responsible directly to the Prime Minister for coordinating the development of the knowledge economy in the UK.
[But] once enrolled, they can submit transactions from any operating system, since XML - the language used - is totally platform independent.
The rate of return was to the tune of 22% of their gross sales of the intellectual property, which Pinder hoped would "give us quite a lot of money".
[5] Pinder appeared before the Public Accounts Committee on 13 May 2002,[6] 12 June 2002 [6] and 3 May 2002 where Edward Leigh MP was "surprised by the woolly answers"[7] On concluding the job, he pronounced his work a success.