Career
In 1984 he co-founded Manchester based software development company Ocean Software with David Ward. After over a decade of success in the gaming industry, he sold Ocean Software to French company Infogrames in April 1996 for United States$100 million. In 2004, Woods was inducted into the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) Hall of Fame for his service to the gaming industry.
Woods was an interviewee in the 2014 documentary From Bedrooms to Billions.
Woods has been a non-executive director at since March 2000. He is known to shy away from media attention at Everton and never comments publicly on current affairs at the club
He is the third largest shareholder in the club and one of only four directors. At 2004 EGM, Woods said: "Well my colleagues have had a lot to say, as has been evident in the last few months.
But this is hardly a forum where there is anything to contribute, necessarily.
There isn’t anything more to say." Woods was appointed Chairman of Cheshire (United Kingdom) headquartered in June, 2013. The company provides Software Consultancy Services to clientele in over 30 countries, helping them to Implement, Enhance, Upgrade, Rollout, Support and Replace their Enterprise resource planning applications.
