CTO and co founder of technology services company in Kyiv Ukraine specialising in Life Science and Healthtech

Executive role, leading established organisation Executive Change Group, building advisory boards and forums for enterprise and start up clients.

Accountable for the delivery of digital innovation, strategy, architecture, governance and cyber security. Delivered a digital transformation of our European marketing processes, building and deploying a simple low cost suite of tools to drive engagement with Healthcare Professionals. The platform, focussing on education and advocacy has had exponential success, in one week during COVID, 1174 HCPs engaged via this platform with 50% of targeted HCPs accepting the invitations.Defined core technology strategies and roadmaps to simplify and support business goals and drive our budgeting process. The simplification and application consolidation element of these strategies delivers a budget reduction of £26m by 2021.Embedded a unique innovation delivery capability in the technology organisation, allowing rapid, less structured projects to progress alongside traditional waterfall projects. The methodology is based on the “total football” metaphor where in the first two thirds of the pitch high work rate and discipline is needed (waterfall projects) but in the last third of the pitch creativity and experimentation is encouraged (agile). Successful agile projects include the deployment of a global cash reporting tool in 3 weeks and the development of a modular approach to M&A in 12 weeks.Implemented an effective data strategy enabling a common view of business data across the global supply chain, finance and commercial sales processes. The associated financial consolidation project delivered a record to report capability consolidating data from 25 individual ERP systems providing transparent visibility of financial performance across the group for the first time.Deployed a board level cyber strategy that delivered a measured improvement to our business and technology risk profile based on third party audit. On the international recognised CMMI index our capability improved from a level 2 “developing” maturity in 2017 to a level 4 “managed” maturity in 2020.

Accountable for the design, build and delivery of critical reusable digital technology assets. Led a team of circa 250 resources (onshore and offshore) and an annual budget of £25m per annum. Designed, built and delivered full suite of critical go to market digital products for AIMIA including the AIMIA Loyalty Platform, the Intelligent Shopper Services retail analytics platform, the AIMIA Mobile platform and the AIMIA Campaign platform. Development process leveraged agile methodology and a strong partnership with Infosys. Delivery of products to major clients including worlds leading car rental company, a number of major banks, a major fashion retailer in the USA and a variety of global grocery retailers in a portfolio of commercial business valued at >£100m sales revenueTransformed the service and support capabilities provisioned to existing commercial customers, deploying robust ITIL processes and drawing on visible lean sigma measurement to reduce P1 incidents from a peak rate of 21 per month to less than 3 per month.Implemented a transformational technology roadmap for the group, reducing cost of developing, and running technology, increasing integration and interoperability and migrating to cloud architectures.Active role in the sales and business development process participating in client pitches, pre sales discussions and product demonstrations, building confidence with enterprise CIO/ CTO community

Elected as chairman of the Corporate IT Forum, a UK based user group enabling major enterprise IT organisations to share experiences and speak with a common industry voice. Currently leading a skills and education commission bringing together industry, academia and government to advise on future education curriculum and identify ways that industry can play a proactive role in promoting science technology, engineering and maths.

Accountable for the global IT strategy, architecture and innovation functions for GSK, setting vision, establishing governance and communicating clear direction across the IT function of 2500 people. Led a core team of 18 persons and an annual budget of £5mDelivered a global strategy to transform IT, simplifying the application portfolio, reducing the number of standard computing stacks and establishing a smaller, more strategic business partnering capability resolutely focused on a small number of critical business programs. The strategy was measured via a series of ongoing milestones to deliver savings of £80million over a 3 year period increasing IT’s overall agility to respond to the realities of global business.Transformed approach to IT architecture by establishing pragmatic “big rules” based governance. Architecture clearly supports the simplification strategy by leveraging SAP for complex supply chain transactions and cloud “as a service” for commodity transactions ensuring standardization and cost transparency (Workday for HR, Microsoft BPOS for email & collaboration, Oracle CRM on demand etc). Delivered multiple rapid innovations that change customer experience including QR codes to visually show patients how to use their medicine and an award winning crowd source cloud solution to share GSK data and capability on diseases of the developing worldRepresented GSK on customer boards for major vendors including Cisco, Vodafone and Oracle, steering and influencing their long term strategies and roadmaps

Build and run application shared service, budget £30m per annum, global team of 300 peopleTransformed 150 individual country IT departments to establish a single global application shared service, leveraging offshore capabilities to deliver savings of £5m per annum and enabling increased focus by business IT on GSKs growth strategiesUsed visual imagery of “plane landing on 2 wheels” to embed ITIL processes as a global standard. The resulting focus on true problem management reduced the cycle time for reps to receive new customer information from 24 days to < 48 hoursDelivered a consumerised bring your own device cloud based solution for Eastern Europe sales force, reducing infrastructure costs by 30% and increasing the reps reported productivity by 20%

Achievements:- Transformed this IT Department, following a series of IT service failures and loss of business confidence. Established 3 teams focused on strategic business relationships supported by 2 shared services. Built clear and regular governance and business review processes, demonstrating measurable improvement in performance and availability of critical services- Led business process offshore programs both for IT and finance with total hard benefits to GSK in excess of £10m migrating 1st and 2nd line support, accounts payable, travel and expenses, and management accounting. Established and led governance processes to ensure offshore partners performed to expected service levels and achieved ongoing continuous improvement benefits- Led game changing smart working program that has become a standard for GSK. In partnership with HR and facilities delivered real estate savings of £10m and empowered 500 IT employees to work smarter. Change program focused on both technology and behaviours needed to enable employees to choose how, when and where to deliver their commitments to GSK. Responsibilities:- Led global team of 100 headcount, portfolio of 176 applications, budget £12m per annum- Represented IT on leadership teams for business customers in finance and real estate

Led global team of 100 headcount, budget £24m per annumDeployed converged IP network and consolidated vendors to delivered service improvements and £9m savings in voice telecoms and conferencing services Led transformational deployment of collaboration tools, building simple, user accessible infrastructure and publicising benefits. Uptake increased from 10,000 regular users to 70,000 users, thus enabling GSK to communicate more effectively, make decisions more quickly and perform tasks more efficiently in a reduced cycle time. Recognised with global CEO award.

- Designed and delivered the integration and support of IT infrastructure functions across 118 countries following the merger of Glaxo Wellcome & SmithKline Beecham- Led IT due diligence process for a major proposed merger in Japan