Personal Information on some of the past speakers to North
London Branch events.
Profile of more recent speakers may be listed earlier.
| July 2007 |
| SHIRIN MADON - Dr Shirin Madon is
a Senior Lecturer in the Information Systems and Innovations Group at the London School of
Economics. The department is one of the largest of its kind in the world. It is well known
for its research and teaching in the social, political and economic dimensions of
Information and Communications Technologies (ICT).
Dr Madon teaches a course entitled 'IT
& Development' and is currently engaged in research on the impact of e-government
systems in India. The focus of this study is on how IT can be used to improve the
efficiency and effectiveness of public administration and on how IT can be used to promote
economic productivity and social welfare in rural communities. |
| EKWOW SPIO-GARBRAH - Dr Ekwow
Spio-Garbrah is Chief Executive of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO).
The CTO is a unique multilateral development partnership between Commonwealth and
non-Commonwealth governments, regulatory agencies, businesses and civil society
organisations focused on ICT and development.
Dr Spio-Garbrah has 25 years experience of
advising governments, multinationals, international banks and multilateral organisations.
He has led the CTO to start a wide range of initiatives covering ICT training and capacity
building and has recently assisted in procuring and managing two World Bank-funded
projects involving some 22 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa. He has contributed to
global debates on ICT issues and has made numerous presentations on the policy and
regulatory aspects of telecommunications development in the Commonwealth and especially in
Africa.
As Ghana’s Ambassador to the United States and Mexico from 1994 to 1997, he
was a member of the government team that oversaw the privatisation of Ghana Telecom. He
was Minister of Communications for Ghana from 1997 to 1998 and Minister of Education from
December 1998 until the beginning of 2001. |
| SIMON BATCHELOR - Dr Simon
Batchelor is Director of Gamos Ltd. Gamos is a small but influential company working with
the social factors surrounding development interventions, organisational development,
technology use and transfer.
Dr Batchelor has over 25 years overseas development
experience. In the 80s his work was mainly with appropriate technology in agriculture
(systems), rural water supplies and renewable technology. In the 90s his work became more
focused on social mobilisation and community development. From 2000 onwards he has grown
increasingly involved in the role of ICT in social empowerment. He has undertaken
planning, training and evaluation of community development projects drawing on his
experience to constructively comment on the social and management components of
programmes. |
| May 2007 |
| IAN HUGHES - Ian Hughes a.k.a.
epredator potato in Second Life is an IBM Consulting IT Specialist who has worked on
leading edge emerging technologies for the past 17 years, a programmer since he was 14. As
a gamer he has seen a massive increase in the capability and design ethics within games
and the rise of online gaming. In 1997 Ian started working on all things web, changing his
perspective on the technology and the business due the much richer mix of people involved
in the web revolution. Graphic Designers, Producers and Programmers all having to work
together. At work he has seen and been part of the Web 2.0 revolution has a top rated blog
inside IBM and jointly writes http://www.eightbar.com
outside. As a digital native his epredator persona spans many places, blogs, Eve Online,
Xbox Live, Twitter, Flickr etc.. He is now officially an IBM Metaverse Evangelist having
led in band of colleagues into Second Life for the past year with a view to understanding
what the social, business and technical implications are of virtual world technology used
with a web 2.0 mentality and user generated content. What makes this work now? What has
caused the massive increase in usage from 70,000 to 4.2 million registrations in less than
a year. How can business become involved without killing the spirit? Who are we online? |
| JIM PURBRICK - Dr Jim Purbrick
has both academic and industry experience in designing and building virtual worlds. At
Nottingham University he worked on the MASSIVE-3 virtual environment system and Prix Ars
Electronica winning mixed reality games with IGDA award winners, Blast Theory. In industry
Jim has worked on Dragon Empires at Codemasters, developed networking and load balancing
technology for Warhammer Online at Climax and is now working on scripting and networking
technology for Second Life at Linden Lab. In his spare time Jim enjoys making music, games
and robots: often with electronics, computers and Second Life. |
| September 2006 |
| MARK KOBAYASHI-HILLARY - Mark
Kobayashi-Hillary is the author of "Outsourcing to India: The Offshore
Advantage" (Springer 2004, 2005) and a contributor to "Technology and Offshore
Outsourcing Strategies" (Palgrave 2005). His forthcoming book "Building a Future
with BRICs" (Springer 2007) examines offshoring global services in Brazil, Russia,
India, and China. Mark has written a new book about globalisation and IT services for the
BCS titled "The Level Playing Field", which has been co-authored with Dr Richard
Sykes - a fellow panellist tonight.
Mark is a board member of the National Outsourcing Association and a founding member of
the BCS working party on offshoring. He is a visiting lecturer on the MBA programme at
London South Bank University and has written a new MBA module on outsourcing for their
2006 MBA intake. He is also conducting his doctoral research on long-term outsourcing
relationships at the London School of Economics. He is a non-executive director of the
peer-to-peer foreign exchange auction system FXA World and has recently advised two new
companies during their start-up phase, including BrainMatics. He is a member of PITCOM,
the UK Parliamentary IT Committee, and the Indo-British Partnership. Mark is a regular
media commentator on outsourcing, with recent contributions to the Financial Times,
Observer, The Times, Radio 4, Radio 5, BBC N24, Silicon.com and Computing.
From 2004 to 2006, Mark was director of technology research at the Commonwealth Business
Council, a trade-promotion agency of the Commonwealth Secretariat where he remains an
advisor on global services and outsourcing. He holds an MBA from the University of
Liverpool. |
| RICHARD SYKES - Dr Richard Sykes
is Chairman of the Outsourcing & Offshore Group of Intellect, the UK trade association
for the IT, Telecoms and Electronics industries. An experienced businessman with a
background that spans the chemical industry, the IT industry and the world of arts he has
held senior executive roles in ICI (he was Group VP IT in the 1990’s) and
non-executive chairmanships in several smaller ventures (he was Chairman of the
outsourcing consultancy Morgan Chambers plc 1999-2004) - and has lived and operated
internationally, including in Japan.
Today Richard has a personal practice (‘Dr Richard Sykes’) as a board-level
counsellor, trusted advisor, strategic coach & facilitator in ICT strategies &
their implementation, sourcing & governance - with a particular focus on the
globalisation of the ICT Services and the Business Process sourcing & outsourcing
market places - and the fast developing wider market place for Technology-Enabled Business
Services. [ ]
He has an advisory non-executive role at Quickstart Global ( http://www.quickstartglobal.com/ ) and is an
Associate at CSC’s Leading Edge Forum ( http://www.lef.csc.com
) . He is co-authoring a new BCS book 'The Level Playing Field' with Mark
Kobayashi-Hilary. |
| RAJEEV SAWHNEY - Corporate Vice President, Europe
HCL Great Britain Rajeev Sawhney joined HCL in 1980 and was one of the
early members of the founding team. He is currently Corporate Vice President of HCL Great
Britain and heads up the European operations.
HCL Enterprise is a leading Global Technology and IT enterprise with annual revenues of US
$3 billion with IT Products and Services contributing to revenues of over $1.2 billion.
The HCL Enterprise comprises two companies listed in India, HCL Technologies & HCL
Infosystems.
The Indian Association for IT and ITES have nominated him as the Convenor of the UK
Chapter of NASSCOM. |
| ANDREW ROGERS - Andrew, has over
twenty years experience in IT service delivery and has held a number of key outsourcing
positions with nationalgrid. He has been on the Board of the National Outsourcing
Association for over Ten Years.
He has just recently carried out the roles of Due Diligence Manager and Transition Manager
for nationalgrid's seven year outsource contract with CSC. |
| March 2004 |
| RACHEL BURNETT - Burnett IT Legal Services Rachel
is a solicitor with her own independent legal practice in IT legal services. Formerly a
partner in City law firms, she has specialised in commercial IT/IP law since the early
days of IT legal practice in the mid-80s. Before her legal career, Rachel was an IT
professional in system development and project management.
Rachel writes and lectures widely on topics relating to IT/IP, e-commerce and law.
She is author of Outsourcing - the Legal Aspects, co-author of Drafting and Negotiating
Computer Contracts, and editor of the series of IT Law Guides published for the Institute
of Chartered Accountants. She is a graduate of Exeter University (B.A. (Hons.) Social
Studies).
Rachel is Vice President (Forums) of the British Computer Society, a Livery Member
of the City of London Worshipful Company of Information Technologists, and former Chair of
the Institute for the Management of Information Systems." |
| RICHARD BOULDERSTONE - Director eStrategy, The
British Library Richard Boulderstone has been the head of IT at the
British Library for the last 18 months. Formerly a CTO and Product Development Director at
a number of international information providers, he has led the creation of many
information based products both in the USA and UK. Between 1984 and 1993 he worked at
Knight-Ridder Financial where he was Senior Vice President responsible for Technology.
Subsequently he worked at Dialog, Reed Elsevier plc and Thomson Financial before spending
two years as Senior Vice President Engineering at Looksmart Ltd, the world's largest
search and web directory business.
Richard is currently leading the British Library's efforts to create a large-scale
digital object management system that will become the primary repository for the
Library's, and hence the UK's, legal deposit collection of electronic resources. |
| PAUL CULLIMORE - Senior Security Consultant,
Microsoft Paul Cullimore (BSc, MCSE 2000, CISSP), Senior Consultant
within the Security Solutions Team, MCS UK. Worked for Microsoft for nearly four years as
an infrastructure consultant with the last three specialising in security. Worked on
Rights Management for over a year being involved both in its development and field
testing. Recently finished delivering a bootcamp course training Microsoft staff in this
new technology. |
| GRAHAM CALLADINE - Senior Security Consultant,
Microsoft Graham Calladine (BEng), Senior Consultant within the
Security Solutions Team, MCS UK. Worked for Microsoft for nearly 4 years specialising in
the government project space. For the last two years has worked on security in code and
more recently Rights Management (RM). Also led one of the earliest Rapid Adoption Programs
this year for RM, and co-presented/wrote the RMS boot camp for MCS staff. |
| February 2004 |
| GRAHAM BROWN - Associate Director, Winmark Ltd Graham
has an MSc in Research Methods in Psychology from Strathclyde University, and is a member
of the Market Research Society. Responsible for the Winmark technology research division,
he has worked on and managed a wide range of qualitative and quantitative projects, with
particular experience in high level vendor/client relationships, brand awareness and new
product development. |
| HYWEL WILSON - Country Manager, Mahindra Consulting
UK An Economics graduate who had a stint with Arthur Anderson before
becoming Vice President of the UK Branch of the international organisation, AIESEC. There
he re-focussed the organisation on its core offering and resulted in a 10-fold increase in
sales. New strategies were also implemented to take advantage of the burgeoning internet.
Hywel then moved into the IT business by joining his present company, Mahindra Consulting,
in India. As Business Development Manager, he sold the company's SAP consulting services
to businesses in Mumbai. Seeking to take advantage of the offshore outsourcing phenomenon,
he set up the UK office of the company in July 2001, which he now heads as Country
Manager. In the past 2 years, the company has grown to over 20 consultants in the UK and
boasts such clients as The BOC Group, Pearson, National Grid Transco and LogicaCMG. |
| ARASH SHAHIDEH - Managing Consultant, IBM Business
Consulting Services Arash Shahideh is a Managing Consultant in IBM
Business Consulting Services with 14 years experience in the full project lifecycle from
project management, business analysis, design and build through to implementation and IT
management.
During the past 5 years his experience has been mainly in the industrial,
consumer product and pharmaceutical industries where he has managed large programmes of
change and has helped clients review and improve the performance of their application
development and IT service delivery functions.
Arash is the leading IBM expert in the
design and implementation of customer focused, service oriented IT organisations. |
| October 2003 |
| STEVE PEARCE - COO, InTechnology He
was divisional sales director for VData and was previously divisional sales director for
Planet Online Limited. Prior to this he was a divisional sales director within Storm and
has previous experience within the technology sector including Digital Equipment
Corporation Ltd, Data General UK Limited and Radius Software Ltd. |
| IAN MURPHY - Independant Consultant IT
Consultant/IT Journalist 15+ years in the IT industry, used to be a Royal marine Commando.
currently produces Tech Monthly, an online IT magazine. |
| June 2003 |
| ANDREW KNOTT - CRM project leader, PwC He
has spent most of his working life in senior marketing positions in professional service
and technology organisations, including Deloitte & Touche, Arthur Andersen Management
Consultants and BT.
He has spent the last six years at PricewaterhouseCoopers and is currently responsible
for running the business side of the firm's PeopleSoft CRM implementation. For this his
remit is to ensure that the system becomes an integral business tool to improve
relationship management, and thereby increase revenues and reduce costs. |
| MICHAEL MARTIN - Senior Consultant, Siebel His
role includes being knowledgable about consultancy services, leading teams to carry out
projects, offering solutions and tracking customer success. Also to:
- Work closely with account teams to identify and qualify appropriate customers.
- Form and lead ad-hoc teams to carry out projects.
- Design and conduct diagnostic reviews that address prerequisites for a successful
implementation before key decisions are made.
- Research industry best practice.
- Compare observations to proven best practice, and offer recommendations to increase
programme effectiveness.
- Address areas including strategy, sponsorship, deployment, education, business processes
and technology.
- Identify gaps that are likely to affect programme success, user adoption and work
effectiveness.
- Work as part of a blended team, including the customer and third parties, with combined
expertise.
- Investigate organisational and system effectiveness through a mix of research,
observation, interviews and survey techniques.
- Report findings and recommendations to executive level, often including CEO, CIO and
board of directors.
- Follow-up with detailed action plan workshops to resolve issues.
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| February 2003 |
| VIV NOOT - e-Business Architect, PwC Viv
Noot is an e-business architect who has worked at PwC for 14 years. When he started with
PwC he was responsible for the firm's European Notes infrastructure and moved to a global
role focusing on standards and architecture shortly after the merger of PW with C&L.
This role expanded to include architectures for e-business. 18 months ago Viv returned to
work for the UK firm, initially managing a team of 20 delivering e-business hosting,
implementing middleware and deploying collaboration tools. Viv's current role focuses on
developing architectures to support a service oriented environment." |
| DAVID VINEY - Business IS Manager, Centrica Group IS As
the technical lead for the Centrica e-Business Programme, David works across a portfolio
of projects, within both business and operational teams, to align strategies and drive out
synergies.
He also takes every opportunity he can to share learning with other companies, through
London Business School’s Future Media Consortium, the British Computer Society and
through Industry Events. He is a regular speaker on e-commerce.
David originally trained and qualified as a chartered accountant with PWC London,
before joining British Airways Finance in 1996.
He moved into IT through Year 2000 & e-business programme management experience,
before joining Centrica in December 2000. |
| ADITYA SHIVRAM - Director of Marketing, TIBCO
Software EMEA. He has been with TIBCO Software since 1999 focusing on
TIBCO’s Business Process Management solutions. He has an MBA from Harvard Business
School.
Prior to TIBCO, Aditya worked for NationsBank, CheckPoint Software and Montgomery
Securities. |
| PAUL VINEY - Director, SmB Solutions Ltd. Paul
Viney is a Director of SmB Solutions Ltd. SmB Solutions is a small consultancy, working
closely with SAP, it’s partners and customers in delivering rapid business solutions
into mid-size companies (below £150m t/o).
Up until August 2002, Paul worked for 8 years at SAP UK. He joined as a Supply Chain
and Distribution consultant and went on to set up and run SAP UK’s Product Management
team. After a year restructuring SAP UK’s support organisation, he was for three
years, Operations Manager, responsible for delivery of integrated templated R/3 solutions
into SAP’s mid-size market sector via it’s channel partners (Value Added
Resellers).
Prior to SAP, Paul worked as a consultant for 4 years at Cincom Systems, following 8
years in the Electronics manufacturing industry. Paul has a degree in Electrical and
Electronic engineering and an MBA from Henley |
| December 2002 |
| ANDREW ABBOUD - UK Director of e-Business, PwC Andrew
Abboud is responsible for the development and implementation of PwC UK’s e-business
strategy. This includes client facing solution sets, infrastructure, brand and process
improvement. He is also the global leader for the PwC Client Relationship Management
project. He started his working career at Arthur Andersen in Paris as a tax consultant. He
then returned to London to follow a freelance IT career before joining Allied Domeq as a
business analyst. He joined PwC as an analyst/programmer in 1992 and realising that he was
no good at programming he moved promptly into project management. This did not play to his
strengths either so he headed up a line of service technology group before moving to a
global technology role. He had a ten month stint with PwC Consulting (now IBM Business
Consulting Services) as the Chief Technology Officer of a (failed!) global B2B e-learning
business. Andrew gained a BSc in Computer Science and Electronics from King’s
College, University of London. However, he describes himself as the “least techy,
techy you will ever meet”! |
| COLIN BARKER - Editor-in-Chief,
"Computing" Colin began writing about IT the year the IBM PC
was first launched and has somehow stuck with this business ever since. He was the editor
of 'Which Computer?' in the 1980s and the European Editor of Byte in the 1990s and now
finds himself editing the leading newspaper for IT management in the UK. In between Colin
has had experience as a serial benchtester for Personal Computer World, and was an
unexpected one-time Technical Editor of PC magazine while not knowing the differences
between an RSJ and an RS232 - such is journalism. He is now happy to talk about industry
trends and Government IT strategies - but don't ask him about the relative merits of Intel
and AMD processors! |
| DAVID K. HENDERSON - Global IT Strategy Leadership
Team, IBM Business Consulting Services David Henderson is responsible
for developing IT strategy for multinational organisations, ensuring the integration of IT
into the planning, design and implementation of strategic change programmes. His
day-to-day work therefore deals with the boardroom agenda for IT, focusing on alignment of
business & IT agendas, assessing business value generated by IT and increasing the
awareness of IT’s potential contribution to achieving business objectives. His
experience spans nearly 30 years, both in industry and consulting, and covers the
following areas:
- Advising on and delivering IT strategies
- Organisational, cultural and business process change
- Multinational organisational transformation
- Technology solutions delivery
- General, commercial and IT management
- Post-merger & acquisition business & IT operating strategy.
David has worked in a wide range of industries including; consumer products,
pharmaceuticals, retailing, distribution, railway transportation, financial services,
manufacturing and engineering. Henderson joined Price Waterhouse Management Consultants
(now IBM Business Consulting Services) in 1987 and was made a partner in 1992. Between
1982 and 1987, Henderson worked in a number of senior IT solutions delivery and marketing
roles with GMIS, the Information Services subsidiary of Grand Metropolitan (now Diageo).
This was preceded by eleven years at Beecham (now GlaxoSmithKline) Group, working in a
range of senior IT and business systems positions.
He gained an BSc from the University of Glasgow and is a member of the following
professional bodies:
- Institute of Management Consultants (Fellow)
- Institute of Management
- British Computer Society
|
| MARTIN TENK - Head of Technology, SAP UK &
Ireland Martin is responsible for the business development, roll-out,
and implementation of the SAP technology solutions in the UK & Ireland. The SAP
technology layer underpins SAP’s world leading business application suite mySAP.com
Martin advises many organizations, from large multi-nationals to local business, on their
IT and applications strategy. Martin studied Software Engineering in the Netherlands and
moved to the UK in 1988. After initially working for a number of hardware vendors in the
UK, Martin began working on SAP projects in 1994 and joined the company in 1996. He
strongly believes that technology should not be implemented or acquired purely for
technology reasons but that the business drivers should set the technology strategy. |
| October 2002 |
| STUART PAYNE - Non-Executive Director, Morgan
Chambers Stuart is a non-executive director of Morgan Chambers and a
practicing consultant.
He brings his extensive industry and management experience to both internal and
external business development initiatives, and spearheaded the early development of our
consulting-lead knowledge transfer services. Prior to joining Morgan Chambers, Stuart was
MD of the UK subsidiary of a major global outsourcing vendor. |
| TOM MARSDEN - Vice President of Cap Gemini Ernst
& Young Tom Marsden is a Vice President of Cap Gemini Ernst &
Young. He is currently head of Outsourcing Consulting, and advises clients on outsourcing
issues. Tom has been in the IT industry for over 30 years, the last 17 with Hoskyns and
its successor companies, now CGE&Y.
He has been involved with Outsourcing for most of this time and has experience of
selling, negotiating, managing and delivering outsourcing deals, which gives him a rounded
view of what works well.
In 2001 Tom led the negotiations for a major transaction with United Utilities
subsidiary Vertex. This resulted in CGE&Y becoming a minority shareholder,
transferring its BPM business to Vertex, and taking over the operational running of Vertex
IT Infrastructure. |
| September 2002 |
| CARL KARSHAGEN - Principal Consultant,
PMProfessional Carl Karshagen is a Principal Consultant with Project
Management Professional Solutions Limited (PMProfessional) with over eighteen years
project management experience gained across a wide range of industry sectors and
environments.
Carl started his career in Project Management in the early eighties within the Atomic
Energy Corporation of South Africa and used this experience as the foundation for
developing his own consulting and training company, Project Planning Systems in Pretoria.
Carl has a particular interested in the infrastructure aspects of Project Management,
effective support for projects being a common theme in much of his work. Carl joined
PMProfessional in 2001 and is a key member of the PMProfessional team providing a wide
range of Project Management consulting, training and mentoring to a diverse client base. |
| DAVID E MARCH MBA, DMS, FMS, MBCS David
is an experienced Consultant and Lecturer who has particular expertise in the introduction
and implementation of structured methods for Project and Programme Management, systems
development, and the introduction, use and application of PRINCE and SSADM.
From an early career in Industrial and Civil Engineering he moved into computing in
1974 in the water industry into a project to design and build a computerised data base for
the National Water Council. After successfully running this database for 7 years he was a
direct entrant (through open competition) into the Civil Service. Here for 8 years he was
a consultant and trainer in the UK Government’s Cabinet Office. He was then
approached to join an international computer services company where he spent five years as
a Managing Consultant. During this time he developed a unique (and commercially
successful) portfolio of software and other tools for users of the PRINCE methodology.
He now runs his own Consultancy and Training Company which provides services to support
users of structured Programme and Project Management methods and the infrastructures that
are needed to support their successful use. David has wide experience in both the public
and private sectors. He is able to work at all levels in an organisation and is known, and
particularly respected for, his practical, pragmatic and helpful approach. His expertise
is internationally recognised and he has written many articles and books on PRINCE and on
Programme Management. He is a regular presenter at national events, conferences and
international seminars. David also develops and presents, on behalf of UNICOM and
Monadnock, a regular programme of International Seminars on Programme and Project
Management. David’s particular specialisation is in the provision of the necessary
infrastructures to support structured Programme and Project Management methods and their
successful use and also in providing guidance to support users of the methods. David is
the Chairman of the PRINCE User Group Executive Committee and a Director of PRINCE User
Group Ltd. and was also a member of the PRINCE Design Authority Board and the PRINCE
Technical Committee. He is a founder member of the Association for Project Management
(APM) Special Interest Group for Programme Management. In June 2001, he became Founder and
Chairman of the Specialist Interest Group for Programme and Project Support Offices. |
| DUNCAN WADE - Director, HIC A
Director of the Human Interface Consultancy specialising in projects, project management
and people working in technology projects.
Duncan worked his way up through most of the roles involved in software development
projects, programmer, senior programmer, systems analyst, senior systems analyst, business
analyst, team leader, project manager and programme manager all positions held during 22
years in the delivery of software systems.
He is the author of the highly successful Learning Tree International Course 340;
Project Management for Software Development and with the Human Interface Consultancy works
extensively within business and government providing mentoring and support for working
project managers. |
| June 2002 |
| RICHARD CHAPPELL - Managing Director, Learning Tree
International Role: As managing director of Learning
Tree International, Richard Chappell oversees more than 140 staff based at the
company’s Leatherhead offices, and the education centre in London.
Richard works
with the Learning Tree management team to drive all aspects of sales, marketing,
operations, product development, HR and IT.
Vision: Learning Tree provides training across over 150 of the latest
technologies, with instructors selected from IT professionals who are leaders in their
areas of expertise. The instructors are active technical practitioners and therefore
possess both expert knowledge and practical real-world experience. Richard is committed to
maintaining this real-world approach, to ensure that Learning Tree retains its position as
a world-leader in high quality, vendor independent, hands-on training for IT
professionals.
Soap Box: Richard can speak with authority and vision on:
- Instructor-led training vs. e-learning
- The management skills gap in IT
- The future of IT training
- Certification and accreditation of training courses
- Return on investment in training
- Training and staff recruitment / retention
Past Life: A Sports Science graduate, Richard began his career in the
Intelligence Corps, where he served in Borneo, Hong Kong and Northern Ireland.
Following military service, Richard spent 6 years with Glaxo Pharmaceuticals, where he
rose to the position of regional business manager, responsible for the South East of
England.
Richard joined Learning Tree International as corporate sales manager in 1995. He was
responsible for all sales and marketing of Learning Tree to corporate clients, both within
the UK and Europe. He was promoted to director of public course sales, and after two
successful years in this post, was appointed managing director in January 2002. |
| MARK LOVELL - Deputy Director of Examinations, BCS Joined
the BCS last October 2001 as Deputy Director (Examinations) after 6 years working at the
London Chamber of Commerce and Industry Examinations Board (LCCIEB) where I was
responsible for the production and quality control of some 200 examinations annually. It
is important to point out from the outset that my area of expertise is examinations and
not IS. In my current role I am in charge of the delivery and quality control of the ISEB
qualifications and the BCS Professional Examination. |
| HANIF SAZEN - Chief Operating Officer, Saffron
Interactive Hanif Sazen is Chief Operating Officer of Saffron
Interactive. He is one of the early proponents of a blended or integrated approach to
learning and has been involved with designing and delivering learning initiatives for IBM,
Deutsche Bank, Swiss Re, Credit Suisse, Universal Pictures, Whirlpool, Liverpool Victoria
and Unisys. |
| BRIAN SUTTON - Chief Educator, QA Brian
is a professional engineer who has worked as a designer in both the machine tool industry
and the aircraft industry. He has served as an Engineering Officer in the Royal Navy and
has held senior management positions both in engineering training and information systems.
He holds a Masters degree in Information Systems Design from the London School of
Economics and has worked extensively in both the private and public sectors in the UK,
Europe and the United States. His last job prior to joining QA was as Professor of Systems
Management at the National Defence University in Washington DC.
With over 25 years experience of running engineering and IS projects, Brian has managed
major initiatives and projects varying in size from hundreds of thousands of pounds to
tens of millions pounds. He has developed comprehensive IS strategies, conducted large
scale reengineering initiatives and led major organisational change.
He is a member of the British Computer Society, a Chartered Engineer and Member of the
Association for Project Management. |
| January 2002 |
| ANDY MULHOLLAND - CTO, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young He
is a Divisional Director & Chief Technology Officer of CGE&Y.
Andy joined Cap Gemini in 1996 with thirteen years experience in senior roles in the IT
industry. An early pioneer in network technology, with a subsequent focus on IT as opposed
to computing, led to recognised International status on Internet based technology. Andy
has written two major White papers in the last five years that have proposed Technology
Architectural models that have subsequently been adopted through out the Technology
industry. He is a regular guest speaker at IT events in the USA and Europe, with frequent
quotes in the Press as well as appearances on Television.
He is particularly knowledgeable on the alignment of IT technology to serve business
aims with emphasis on improving the communication and use of information in business
processes. He has worked in all major industry sectors on strategic initiatives to deliver
business advantage from Technology coining the name ‘Techno Business’.
Andy is an experienced senior Executive with strong skills in strategic, tactical, and
management aspects of technology, and services provision. Drawing on his wide ranging
practical experience he is able to communicate on the business aspects to the Boardroom as
well as directly managing, and motivating, operational staff. He has been the founder, or
cofounder, of four technology companies that have been the subject of either acquisition
by leading multinational technology companies, or have gone public on NASDAQ.
His role of Chief Technology Officer includes advising the Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
group management board on all aspects of technology promoted market changes. This covers
both the internal and external affects on Cap Gemini customers and for Cap Gemini’s
own business. Andy has numerous links to the technology industry, serving on advisory
boards of several organisations, including the Californian State Technology Board. |
| ANTHONY SAXBY - CTO, Microsoft Anthony
has over 15 years experience in the computer industry, specialising in the areas of
application development, software engineering and distributed systems architectures, based
upon Microsoft platform technologies. Anthony has worked on large projects in Retail,
Financial Services and Government, covering application areas ranging from B2C Commerce
solutions in the Financial Services industry through to large scale Integration projects
in the Government sector. At Microsoft, Anthony manages the Enterprise Systems Strategy
and Architecture Consulting Practice as well as acting as Chief Technology Officer for
Microsoft Ltd. |
| December 2001 |
| JONATHAN CORNTHWAITE - Head of Intellectual Property
Law, IT Law and E-Commerce Law, Wedlake Bell Jonathan Cornthwaite is the
head of Intellectual Property Law, Information Technology Law and E-commerce law at
Wedlake Bell, where he has been a partner since 1988. Wedlake Bell is an English law firm
based in London with a leading corporate and commercial practice. He is also the head of
E-commerce law in TELFA, the pan-European legal alliance of which Wedlake Bell is a
founder member.
Jonathan has specialised in IP/IT law since qualifying as a solicitor. He advises a
wide range of business clients in the UK and overseas on IP and IT legal issues, both
contentious and non-contentious, and his practice also covers UK and EU competition law.
Jonathan has published and spoken extensively on IP and IT subjects. His contributions
to publications include articles published in the In Focus supplements of Intellectual
Property Newsletter and regularly monthly articles published in Corporate Briefing for
which he is the IP columnist. He is also the editor and co-author of Marketing Law that
Matters published by Financial Times/Pitmans, and the author of The Internet and
Intellectual Property (now in its second edition) published by Monitor Press Limited. He
lectures frequently at conferences and seminars in the UK and abroad on IP/IT and
competition law issues. His legal directory entries include Chambers (where he is cited as
a Aleading individual@), The Legal 500 Who's Who (where he is profiled) and Managing
Intellectual Property=s IP Contacts Handbook.
Jonathan is a member of The Intellectual Property Lawyers' Organisation, the Society
for Computers and Law, the Licensing Executives' Society, the Solicitors' European Group
and the Competition Law Society, and serves as a committee member of the City of
Westminster and Holborn Law Society. He was educated at St Paul's School, London and the
Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. |
| ATUL BHOVAN - Consultant, Compuware He
has worked in IT for about 13 years. I have spent time as a junior programmer, analyst
programmer, tester, configuration manager, test environment 'builder' and most recently a
consultant, for Compuware. Here my role is to help customers identify and define their
technical challenges and help devise solutions in terms of tools and processes. |
| NICO MACDONALD - Principle, Spy Nico
Macdonald is principal of Spy, a consultancy focusing on design and publishing strategy
for networked products, with clients including Euromoney Publications, Haymarket and USA
Networks. He writes on business, design and technology for a number of publications in the
UK and the US. He is also on the Exec of the British HCI Group and is on the organising
committee for ACM SIGCHI's Designing Interactive Systems 2002 conference.
(SIGCHI is the Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction.) |
| DOUGLAS HAYWARD - Ex-Editor of Computing Douglas
Hayward is a freelance editor, columnist and writer.
He was until October 2001 the editor of Computing, the leading UK weekly business
newspaper going to IT professionals (circulation 135,000). During his editorship, he
totally redesigned and repositioned the title, introducing new ideas, formats and sections
to bring it more definitively into the ebusiness age.
Before joining Computing, Douglas was a co-founder and international editor of TechWeb
(www.techweb.com), the US-based newswire service. He created and developed TechWeb's
international operations.
Before that, Douglas was a freelance writer and editor for several years, with spells
as temporary editor or section editor of several publications. he has written for a wide
variety of titles, including the Financial Times, The Times, The Guardian, The
Independent, and US titles including Upside and Internet Week.
Douglas began work on a local newspaper in West Yorkshire in 1990, before moving into
technology business titles. |
| Zena Meyer – Head of Darestep Zena
Meyer is Head of DareStep, the creative design and interactive studio wholly owned by Cap
Gemini Ernst and Young.
Previously her roles have included Finance Director and Company Secretary for The
Helicopter Group and Technical Director for Hyperinteractive Ltd, the most awarded new
media agency in the UK.
Subsequent roles at IN.Form Research Design and Development and The Red Company (both
as managing director) further developed and consolidated Zena’s understanding and
expertise in all aspects of web design, new media and emerging technologies.
Zena joined DareStep in July 2000. |
| Lucy Lam-Po-Tang - Consultant, Darestep Lucy
was drawn to London to work as an account manager for Wolff Olins – a top 5 branding
consultancy. But the role was too slow moving so she jumped ship and joined DareStep in
January this year.
In her role as interaction and usability consultant she’s learned a lot and put
her degrees in graphic design and business administration into practice. Her role involves
creating sitemaps and information architecture, wireframes, functionality briefs and user
studies.
So far she has worked on a retail banking internet site, a couple of pharmaceutical
intranets and a touch screen kiosk for the Post Office. |
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