John Harvey-Jones is dead

JOHN HARVEY-JONES, the former ICI chief executive who went on to be a regular speaker about technology, has died aged 83.

Harvey-Jones was credited with turning around the fortunes of the British pharmaceutical giant in the 1980s but went on to find more fame as a TV business expert on the Troubleshooter series.

In one of the best of the programmes, he advised Apricot boss Roger Foster to pull out of the PC business and interviewed legendary UK journalist Guy Kewney.

He later became a regular speaker at technology conferences, chiding vendors for poor usability, and noting that he couldn’t type when he was running ICI. µ