The Rosenbrock Report made it clear that the ICF should be run by an engineer:
The management of the interactive service therefore needs to be in the hands of a man who has some experience in engineering research, preferably in a university environment. He must have a wide knowledge of interactive computing, extending if possible to interactive graphics. He must be able to deal with difficult and conflicting requirements requested by users. To find such a man will not be easy, but an unsuitable appointment for this position could easily jeopardise the success of the service.
The post was advertised in May 1977 and Peter Davey was recruited and started work in the Autumn of 1977. Peter was a High Energy Physicist by training and had been running a PDP10 facility at the University of Oxford. This was one of the systems looked at when contemplating the purchase of the Chilton system. Peter, as well as being a physicist, was also an engineer and satisfied the criteria above. Peter ran the ICF from 1977 until 1984.
Mike Jane of RAL provided overall management for the university facilities after that until the last machine was shutdown on the 30 March 1990.