Editing Logica (section)

===Origins===
Logica was started as a [[systems integration]] business in 1969.<ref name="hscot-jmcn"/> Its founders were five people who left Scicon, an American computer company that had opened a London-based UK subsidiary and that had then been bought by [[BP]].<ref name="hscot-jmcn"/> Chief among these were Len Taylor, who took the operational helm, and Philip Hughes, who served in the visionary role.<ref name="quest">{{cite news | url=https://www.questia.com/magazine/1G1-16126892/logica-s-new-face | title=Logica's New Face | author-first = Anita | author-last=van de Vliet | magazine=Management Today | date=June 1994 }}</ref><ref name="dir">{{cite book | title=International Directory of Company Histories, Volume 37 | publisher=St James Press | date=2001 | pages=230–33}}</ref> Indeed a later profile would call Hughes "one of the architects of the information age."<ref name="alca"/>

The other founders were Pat Coen,<ref name=inde>{{cite news | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/corporate-profile-the-logica-solution-1132465.html | title=Corporate Profile: The Logica Solution | author-first=Jim | author-last=Levi | newspaper=The Independent | date=15 December 1999}}</ref> Steve Feldman,<ref name="is-stint">{{cite news | url=http://data.synthesis.ie/site_media/trec/FT/FT941-7303.txt | title=People: Mann's long stint at Logica comes to an end | newspaper=Financial Times | date=25 February 1994 | access-date=17 August 2013 | archive-date=17 August 2013 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130817164548/http://data.synthesis.ie/site_media/trec/FT/FT941-7303.txt | url-status=dead }}</ref> and John McNeil.<ref name="hscot-jmcn">{{cite news | url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/john-mcneil-pioneer-of-the-uk-computer-software-industry-1.70194 | title=John McNeil Pioneer of the UK computer software industry | newspaper=Herald Scotland | date=19 November 2004}}</ref>  Another important figure, David Mann, joined the fledgling outfit a few weeks later.<ref name="is-stint"/>