A pioneering, technically minded, versatile and globally experienced Head of Technology with a successful track record of leading technology and process change within financial services. Exceptionally skilled in spearheading large strategic transformation projects with creativity and innovation. Key Professional Skills & Attributes: • Knowledge & expertise: Possesses ~20 years of global experience within a variety of senior technology leadership and management roles within financial services. • Leadership: A quick thinking, innovative and focused leader who leads by example and with a spirit of autonomy, allowing teams to develop organically with a view to contributing to the short and long-term vision of the business. • Commercial acumen: A commercially savvy professional who is able to evaluate new technologies to reduce running costs, evaluate resourcing models, enabling pragmatic solutions to assist business modernisation, increasing data integrity and leverage, leading to better client experience and business results. • Technology platforms: Has spearheaded the development of large platforms including Investment Research, Workplace Investing, and Client Engagement platforms which includes Salesforce CRM, Marketing Automation, Voice of Client, Client & Data Analytics and Client Reporting. • Business change management: consulting the business to evolve their strategies and to pioneer change from the perspective of technology for client engagement, process streamlining, innovative thinking, assessing FinTech solutions and highlighting competitor benchmarking.