Michael O'Regan

Michael O'Regan (born c. 1947) was the co-founder of RM plc.

O'Regan graduated with an economics degree from Cambridge University.

In 1973, with Mike Fischer (who had an physics degree from Oxford), O'Regan co-founded Research Machines, a British microcomputer and then software company for the educational market. He was an executive director until 1992, when he became a non-executive director. He has been a non-executive director of a number of other companies as well, including the Oxford Technology Venture Capital Trust.

O'Regan was awarded an honorary degree by Oxford Brookes University in 1999,. With RM co-founder, Mike Fischer O'Regan was awarded an honorary degree by the Open University in 2002.

O'Regan was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2000.

Mike is the Chair of Hamilton Trust which ran Maths Year 2000 for the British government.

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Michael O'Regan (Medal of Honor)

Private Michael O'Regan (July 22, 1846 – May 28, 1933) was an American soldier in the United States Army who served with the 8th U.S. Cavalry regiment during the Apache Wars. O'Regan was one of several soldiers who received the Medal of Honor for gallantry in fighting Apache Indians in the Arizona Territory between August and October 1868.

Biography

Michael O'Regan was born in Fall River, Massachusetts on July 22, 1846. He later enlisted in the United States Army in Boston, Massachusetts and joined Company B in the 8th U.S. Cavalry regiment. A participant in the Apache Wars during the late 1860s, O'Regan was part of a small cavalry group of approximately fifty troopers tasked with protecting settlers from Apache raiding parties in the Arizona Territory between August and October 1868. During that ninety-day period, O'Regan and his colleaques faced the Apaches in heavy fighting, especially in ambushes and sniper attacks, during their patrols. O'Regan was among the thirty-four soldiers who were received the Medal of Honor, in one of the U.S. Army's largest presentations of the medal at the time, for "bravery in scouts and actions against Indians" on July 25, 1869. O'Regan returned to Fall River after leaving the army and died on May 28, 1933, at the age of 86. He was interred in Saint Patrick's Cemetery.