Clive Humby is a British inventor and Director. He was the founder of the Customer Data Science company called ‘Dunnhumby’ of which he co-found with his wife Edwina Dunn. He studied Maths at the University of Sheffield before later working at CACI. He would eventually end up receiving an honorary doctorate in Engineering from the university later on in life. However, he stopped working thereafter deciding that he wanted to go into business by himself. The business was started in 1989 and quickly began acquiring huge clients such as BMW and Cable & Wireless.
Humby was also a prominent contributor in helping Tesco release their ‘Clubcard’ scheme. Clive is also a chief data scientist at Starcount, which is one of the top data consultancies in London. Starcount is spearheaded by Humby and can uncover information from data generated by 1.3 billion consumers online. The reason he was chosen as one of the reasons companies will employ the services of Starcount is to create a customer loyalty programme, which of course is what he did at Dunnhumby for Tesco and their Clubcard scheme.
In 2019 Humby was awarded an OBE for his services to both Data and Business, with his wife having been given the same honour in the same year. He is also known for founding the phrase ‘Data is the New Oil’. He is also an in-demand consultant from companies at all levels in over 30 countries.
