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Lead IT function to strengthen business impact and performance.

CEO of the internal IT shared services organisation, a listed subsidiary of Prudential PLC. The ask was to lead the evolution to a more digitally enabled insurance and asset management business to improve business impact and performance.

Appointed to transform global IT to enable a step change in business innovation, operational performance, cost efficiency and people capability and to build a single global IT entity serving all BP globally. • Delivered new business value & productivity improvements via leading edge business application in collaboration, visualisation, mobility and through frontier adoption of emerging technology( including scale enablement of 'cloud' services) • Designed & implemented changes to enable 40% improvement in operational performance & embedded a 'learning' operations culture for a large scale global operation• Enabled 25% sustainable yoy cost improvements achieving upper quartile in benchmark • Built a global shared services organisation including SAP applications support transforming people capability and simplifying the op model­• Established an effective outsourcing ecosystem halving the number of suppliers & delivering 20% efficiency­• Created differentiated service offer based on a clear internal market that would meet business needs and maintain economy of scale• Led IT component of major business divestment activity

Appointed to create a global common technology platform to remove complexity from previous business merger activity. Investment programs of circa $1bn.• Addressed regulatory risks in trading/ refining IT environments with business.• Designed, built and consolidated global footprint into 3 major global data centres to drive effectiveness, compliance and efficiency. • Created capability to enable applications of visualisation and collaboration technology.• Created a common architecture & standardised the global IT technology.

Appointed to transform the underlying infrastructure & applications cost base for the global R&M business stream and to improve linkage of IT to the business agenda via improved linkage of IT to the wider business change plans and an improvement in IT delivery performance and culture.

Led the design and execution of Group wide IT global investment programs to ensure a more cohesive and standardised environment following large scale business merger activity ( BP-Amoco-Arco- Castrol- Veba/Aral).

Deputy CIO appointed to lead the integration of IT within the Upstream business post M&A ( BP- Amoco-Arco) and to create and lead effective operations within the new merged business. Focus on creating the right talent base, right culture, effective operations and standardising/ modernising to drive efficiency to contribute to externally committed business synergies.

CIO for the Alaskan business

Principal IT advisor/ delivery lead for a number of Upstream exploration businesses.( Azerbaijan, Kazakstan, Abu Dhabi, Vietnam )