James Goodfellow OBE

James Goodfellow OBE is presented with his award by Iain Gray - Chief Executive, Technology Strategy Board. 

A special discretionary award for Outstanding Achievement in Innovation was handed to Glasgow born chip and pin inventor James Goodfellow OBE. The 73-year-old aws honoured for his contribution to Scottish innovation.

Pioneered in 1965 to allow banking customers more flexible access to their money a solution to automatic money dispensing was created. In order to protect customers and their cash, our recipient this evening devised a machine readable and decidable Personal Identification Number – known to us now a PIN number. 

This innovation solved the problem of securely accessing money from ATM Cash Machines and has been adopted across the world and is still the only ATM Cash Access system in use today, 45 years and 1.5M installed machines later. In addition, POS (point of sale terminals) now use the system.