Simon Rockman

• Jeremy Clarkson once changed the wheel on Simon's Lancia Delta for him. Simon was delivering a computer to the presenter that he had commissioned to write for Amstrad User magazine.
• On a press trip to watch an Inmarsat launch in Baikonur, he sat in the training capsule used by Yuri Gagarin when he was the first man in space.
• He was poached from his own business by Motorola to work in Chicago on future innovation and then led a software development team in Cambridge, UK.

Experience

Based in the UK, Simon was the editor of the nation's biggest computer magazine, PCW, in the 1990s. After he left, he founded What Mobile magazine and reviewed hundreds of phones. He's worked for Sony Ericsson in Lund, Sweden, and the mobile phone operator's organization, the GSMA. Simon held the highest status, Wizard, on MUD, the world's first online multiplayer game in 1981.

Education

Simon was taught to write news when he was 12 by his grammar school English teacher, who had been the editor of Motorcycling News before turning to education. His first reviews appeared in Computer & Video Games magazine when he was 14. Now aged 60, he's still writing.