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Cliff Stanford is a British entrepreneur and businessman who is best known for founding the internet service provider Demon Internet in 1992. He is also the founder of the Redbus Group, a venture capital firm. Stanford was born in London, England, and attended the University of Manchester, where he studied computer science. After graduating, he worked as a software engineer for a number of companies, including IBM and Digital Equipment Corporation. In 1992, Stanford founded Demon Internet, one of the first internet service providers in the United Kingdom. The company was sold to Scottish Telecom in 1997 for £66 million. In 2000, Stanford founded the Redbus Group, a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies. He is also the founder of the Stanford Group, a private equity firm. Stanford is a philanthropist and has donated to a number of charities, including the British Red Cross and the Prince's Trust. He is also a patron of the Royal Academy of Arts. As of 2021, Cliff Stanford's net worth is estimated to be approximately $200 million.

Popular As Clifford Martin Stanford
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Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 12 October, 1954
Birthday 12 October
Birthplace London, England
Date of death February 24, 2022
Died Place Estonia
Nationality United Kingdom

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2005

In September 2005 Stanford was convicted under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 of intercepting emails belonging to John Porter, son of Dame Shirley and then chairman of Redbus. Despite pleading guilty, Stanford claimed that what he had done was legal as "someone on the inside ... put in a redirect". He was given a suspended sentence, ordered to pay a fine of £20,000 and, in a later hearing, was denied leave to appeal.

2003

In 2003, whilst attempting to gather information about possible wrongdoings by the board of Redbus Interhouse, Stanford discovered and exposed more than £34m of assets of Dame Shirley Porter This resulted directly in her repaying £12m to Westminster Council.

2000

Stanford has a son, Tony, and as of 2000 was in a relationship with Sylvia Spruck Wrigley.

1999

Stanford is a chess enthusiast. He sponsored a Redbus knockout Grandmaster chess event each Easter in Southend since 1999. Following the death of his uncle, Jack Speigel, who had for many years organised the annual Southend Easter chess congress, Stanford inaugurated a Jack Speigel Memorial Invitational Tournament, also at Easter and in Southend. The first Redbus event and the first Speigel Memorial event were each won by James Plaskett.

1998

Following the sale of Demon Internet to Scottish Telecom in 1998 for £66 million, Stanford founded Redbus Investments, a venture capital firm involved in film production and a variety of other ventures. Redbus Investments provided seed capital for a number of investments including Redbus Interhouse and Redbus Film Distribution. After a boardroom fall-out at Redbus Interhouse, he resigned in June 2002.

1990

In the early 1990s Pipex began marketing leased line internet connections for £20,000 a year. After recruiting 200 subscribers willing to pay a "tenner a month" for dial-up internet access, in 1992 Stanford co-founded Demon Internet, the first Internet Service Provider in the United Kingdom for individual subscribers. Initially equipped with eight modems and a single leased line, the number of subscribers grew quickly, particularly after the appearance of the World Wide Web in 1993. By 1996 Demon Internet had 50,000 subscribers and more than 4,000 modems.

1954

Clifford Martin Stanford was born on 12 October 1954 and grew up in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. His father was a civil servant, but left the family when Stanford was 11; his mother was a book-keeper.

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