2000s Archives - Page 15 of 21

John O’Connell

John O’Connell is a high-profile London-based technology entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He founded Staffware, one of the then leading software companies in the UK, which he sold in 2004. Since then he has personally invested in fourteen technology businesses, having chaired the vast majority of them. He also chaired and co-owned the professional rugby club then known as London Wasps. At present he is Chairman of Active Navigation, and he is the founder and Chairman of ScaleUp Group,

13 June 2019

John Yard CBE

John Yard CBE played a pivotal role in the management and outsourcing of IT systems at the Inland Revenue. First EDS got the outsourcing contract and then, for the first time in the market, he managed the transfer of the contract to CapGemini. He helped the Revenue become a pioneer in the implementation of large scale IT systems

7 June 2019

Shirine Khoury-Haq

Shirine’s career has been a transition from finance to consulting, and then to operations. She started in the US public sector before moving on to telecommunications, consumer products, retail and then insurance. She has led global teams delivering large scale technology and business change in FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 organisations, including several mergers and acquisitions. She has worked in the US, UK, across Europe and in Asia Pacific. She spent her childhood traveling around the world due to her father’s job and had lived on every continent except for Antarctica before the age of 12.

6 June 2019

Rebecca George OBE

Rebecca George spent almost twenty years with IBM, as it transitioned from a hardware and software supplier to a services company. In 2006 she joined Deloitte and is now their lead partner for public sector. Rebecca received an OBE in 2006 for services to IT and for her work supporting the Egan Review on sustainable community skills

4 June 2019

Dr Alan Shepherd

Alan has had a long and varied IT career, with a background in research, innovation, technology assessment, and large scale contracting. He has held senior technology management appointments in both public and private sectors, and recently has specialised in highlighting the growing business impact of emerging technologies. He has been responsible for many major projects and investment decisions, and has considerable experience of IT-supported and IT-driven business change programmes. He is very familiar with the difficulty of implementing change that affects workplace culture and tradition, a challenge that’s still very much with us today. Alan is a Chartered Engineer, and has served as a member of the Advisory Board of the Intel Corporation, and as a Council Member of EURIM and of the Parliamentary IT Committee.

30 May 2019

Professor Brian Randell

Brian has had a long and illustrious career in computing, starting work at English Electrics Atomic Power Division in 1957. Brian worked on various programming tasks, including the ALGOL 60 compiler for the KDF9 machine, which was the subject of his book, Algol 60 Implementation, along with Lawford Russell, one of the first books on compilers. Brian then joined IBM Research at Yorktown Heights in 1964, where he worked on computer and systems design. After five years at IBM, Brian became Professor of Computing Science at the Department of Computing Science at Newcastle University, where he has remained since.

30 May 2019

Dr Catherine Breslin

Dr. Catherine Breslin is a machine learning scientist specialising in speech and language technology. She has a distinguished academic background with a degree from Oxford and post-graduate qualifications from Cambridge. Her career has been about the application of speech and language research to real-world problems. She has worked for Toshiba and then Amazon, where she played a major role in developing Alexa onto other platforms.

23 May 2019

Gareth Bunn

Gareth Bunn started his career in IT at what was then known as the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Centre, in 1973. He was later influential in developing the services offered by the government’s Central Computing and Telecommunications Agency. He then became a partner at Ernst & Young and a vice-president at Capgemini before setting up his own company to offer training in communication and leadership.

7 May 2019

Dr Robert (Bob) Nowill

Bob Nowill has had a career as an IT security expert at the Government Communications Head Quarters (GCHQ) and at BT. He helped respond to the change of stance of GCHQ from combating the USSR in the cold war to the more asymmetric challenges faced today. He now works to try to bridge the skills gap between the pool of talent available to combat cyber security issues and the need for more expertise to achieve higher security

2 May 2019

Bridget Blow CBE

Bridget Blow CBE is an experienced independent Non-Executive Director and Chairman with special skills in technology, turnover and profit growth, corporate deals, human resources, change management, strategy, business transformation and governance,