Returns to UK, hired by NBC
Highfield returns to the UK, where he is hired as head of IT for NBC Europe. He is tasked with the set up one of the first television websites in the UK.
Sent to South Africa, works with ANC
Highfield is sent to work in South Africa, where his is employed by the ANC shortly after it is pitched into crisis by the arrest of Winnie Mandela in relation to the death of activist Stompie Moeketsi Seipei. Amid allegations of financial irregularities, Highfield is asked to get the books in order. He employs Olive Mungadze, a Zimbabwean, who is the only female black chartered accountant in sub-Saharan Africa. During the project, Mungadze and Highfield go into a remote Afrikaaner diner in Transkei.
I had never known an entire restaurant stop eating and just turn round and stare at me, a suited white businessman, with Olive, a suited black woman. They just stared at us for the whole dinner. An utterly different world. It was only 1993.
Hired by Coopers & Lybrand Consulting
0 0 Mark Devlin Mark Devlin2016-04-07 20:00:552016-04-07 20:08:25Hired by Coopers & Lybrand ConsultingAttends City University Business School
0 CommentsHighfield attends City University Business School where he studies Business Computing Systems.
Attends Elizabeth College
0 CommentsHighfield attends Elizabeth College, a private school in Guernsey. While there his interest in computers is sparked by the BBC Micro, a low-cost computer made for the corporation by Acorn.
It’s a thing that you learned to program and connected up to a television set. The amazing thing now is that they’re all totally useless.