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With 40 years’ experience, John is a senior technology executive and Board member having successfully delivered large scale technology led transformation, innovation, and services for some of the biggest names in the technology industry including Microsoft, Yahoo and BBC. John is also an experienced Non-Executive Director (with FTSE and AIM listed companies and a UK Government Agency) and a founder of 3 successful technology start-ups. John’s experience brings a high degree of technology, commercial and leadership ability operating at a global scale that has proven itself repeatedly throughout his career.John spent 11 years at Microsoft where he led a large software and service engineering organisation responsible for developing and running Microsoft’s online MSN platform around the world.As Senior Vice President at Yahoo for 5 years, John led a team of 1600 software and service engineering staff responsible for all Yahoo services in 22 countries outside the US. At Yahoo, John also managed Yahoo’s software engineering centre in Bangalore, India with 800 staff as well as the Internationalisation and Localisation teams in California. John was CTO at the BBC for 4½ years responsible for all IT, production and broadcast technology and managed a budget of £500m a year, 1200 full time staff and a further 1000 vendor/contract staff.As CTO at Wood Mackenzie, a leading data analytics firm in the Energy and Mining sector, John delivered sophisticated data analytics on a very large scale including using machine learning to provide long term predictive analytics.John was also CTO at an Earth observation satellite imaging company where he was responsible for building and leading the team developing Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence platforms to automate the analysis of satellite imagery and video.John is on the Board of National Grid ESO, the UKs electricity system operator and Brooks Macdonald Group plc. a UK Wealth Management company with £17bn of assets under management."If you want to make history, you have to drive change"
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Non Executive DirectorNational Energy System Operator Oct 2024 - PresentWarwick, Warwickshire, GbNational Grid ESO is now Britain’s National Energy Sytem Operator (NESO)
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Non Executive DirectorIntercede Jun 2023 - PresentLutterworth, Leicestershire, GbNon-Executive Director on the Board of this AIM listed Technology company that provides secure digital identity and zero trust technology to organisations globally including US Government, UK Government and large corporations such as Boeing, Natwest bank, Lloyds bank, Lockheed Martin and many others. -
Non Executive DirectorBrooks Macdonald Sep 2018 - PresentLondon, England, GbNon Executive Group Board Director, Chair of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Risk & Compliance Committee and the Audit Committee. Additonally Board Champion for Consumer Duty. Brooks Macdonald are and AIM listed Wealth Management company with discretionary funds under management (FUM) of £16.5 billion. -
Strategic Advisor And InvestorVarious Aug 2016 - PresentStrategic Technology advisor to companies ranging from small start ups to large global organisations. Investor.
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Non Executive DirectorNational Grid Eso Jun 2020 - Oct 2024Warwick, West Midlands, GbNon-Exec Board Director. National Grid ESO was the electricity system operator for Great Britain responsible for moving electricity round Great Britain’s system to keep homes and businesses supplied with the energy they need 24/7, 365 days a year. Chair of the Health, Safety and Wellbeing Board Sub Committee. NG ESO became National Energy System Operator on 1 October 2024 -
Strategic Technology Advisor & CtoUk Ministry Of Defence Oct 2021 - Oct 2023London, GbWorking with Defence Digital to drive increased capability across Defence through accelerating technology transformation and delivery including holding the CTO position. Responsible for pan Defence Technology strategy and direction, the Digital Foundry, Architecture and Innovation functions -
Chief Technology OfficerEarth-I Aug 2017 - Dec 2019Surrey Research Park, England, GbEarth-i (http://earthi.space) is a UK Earth observation company that is launching a constellation of small satellites to deliver high resolution, full colour images and video along with analytics and insights derived from that data. The company uses the Earth observation data, analytics and insights to help commercial and government organisations to make informed decisions. I am leading the Technology function which is using Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, 3D modelling, moving object extraction, data science and automated analysis to deliver key insights and value for our customers. Earth-i is the only “own source”, end to end provider of Earth observation images, video, analytics and insights in Europe. We are also collaborating with the European Space Agency (ESA), UK Space Agency, Satellite Catapult, InnovateUK and other publicly funded bodies to further the UK’s goal of owning 10% of the global space industry. -
Executive Vice President & Chief Technology OfficerWood Mackenzie Jun 2014 - Aug 2016London, England, GbWood Mackenzie are a global leader in commercial intelligence for the energy, metals and mining industries, providing objective analysis and advice on assets, companies and markets, giving clients the insight they need to make better strategic decisions. I sit on the Exec and report to the CEO. My role is transforming the company through making technology a strategic driver of the business. Responsible for all technology (internal and customer facing) and for driving technology innovation to significantly grow the business as well as increase overall efficiency of the organisation. This includes creating new channels to market (e-commerce and distribution through third parties) to augment the highly successful subscriptions business. Driving significant innovation in the acquisition, analysis and distribution of content and data to drive greater effectiveness, quality and frequency of update for Wood Mackenzie’s client offerings. Delivering greater customer value through initiatives such as mobile, data as a service and analytical models in the cloud -
Non Executive DirectorDrs Data & Research Services Plc Jan 2012 - May 2015Non Exec Director and Chair of Ethics Committee for DRS Data & Research Services plc a FTSE listed company. DRS products and solutions are used across the globe on large-volume, time-critical projects such as the capture and processing of data for large-scale examinations, elections, population censuses and financial documentation. www.drs.co.uk
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Chief Technology Officer (Cto Includes Cio Function)Bbc Mar 2009 - Jul 2013London, England, GbResponsible for the BBC's broadcast and enterprise technology, distribution and archive. Manage an annual budget of ~500m and around 1200 staff. Technology includes all IT technology for the BBC, and glass to glass broadcast and distribution (cameras/mic through to the audience and everything in between). Key departments reporting into me include Distribution, Technology Operations, IT, Software & Service Development, Technology Infrastructure, Supplier Management, Architecture and the BBC's Archive (physical and digital).I sit on the BBC's Operations, Technology, Future Media and Academy BoardsNotable achievements include significantly improving supplier management resulting in over £50m direct savings to the BBC and price reductions for new technology orders (tens of millions of pounds savings), negotiating refunds of over £30m to the BBC from suppliers. Merging News, WorldService and Radio technology support functions saving many millions of pounds in annual costs, on track to deliver 25% savings across all operating expense in technology, distribution and archive, keeping the BBC on air despite significant shortfall in capital available, delivering the Olympics IT and broadcast for the BBC including 24 standard and HD TV channels, delivery of major infrastructure projects for new BBC centres in Salford and London, driven major innovations such as virtualised local radio, news content aquisition and centralised playout that will deliver tens of millions of pounds of savings in the next few years, delivery of BBC 1 HD and then nations HD infrastructure and services, moved BBC's archive of over 1m items safely to a new state of the art facility, digital switch over of TV services from analogue to DTT, digitised tens of thousands of hours of BBC content, delivered Windows 7 and Office 2010 to 20,000 pcs, extended full wifi coverage across the BBC, deployed BYOD for staff to connect personal devices to BBC, stabilised telephony and LAN infrstructure across the BBC -
Senior Vice President, International EngineeringYahoo Inc. May 2004 - Feb 2009Sunnyvale, Ca, UsI ran all of Yahoo's international engineering (i.e. all engineering outside of US). Before I left Yahoo I was managing an organisation of 1600 staff (developers, testers, service engineering, etc) across 22 markets internationally in Europe, Asia and and Emerging markets as well as localization and internationalization functions based in California. The Yahoo Software Development Centre in Bangalore also reported to me.Key achievements include development of Yahoo Answers which started out as a pilot in my engineering team in Korea and went on to become one of Yahoo's most traffic'd services with over 130m unique users/month.I also introduced Service Management and ITIL based service delivery into Yahoo to deliver stable, scaleable and resilience services to Yahoo users globally.I championed the delivery of global products by Yahoo building up both the Internationalisation and Localisation capabilities for the company.I led a major project to explore the creation of engineering centers of excellence around the world. -
Gm Msn International EngineeringMicrosoft 1993 - 2004Redmond, Washington, UsI was responsible for Software and Service engineering for MSN (Microsoft's online consumer service) outside the US and for delivering the MSN Content Management platform globally. I took MSN from inception to delivering high quality, scalable and resilient services to hundreds of millions of users around the world. Prior to the 7 years with MSN I was a Principle Architect in Microsoft's Consulting Division where I led a number of high profile projects in the Finance, Commercial and Defence sectors. -
Cto, Ceo, Technical Director, Software Developer...Various Including 3 Successful Startups Aug 1980 - Oct 1993Started out as a software developer, worked at several companies before starting a successful software company with 3 others. Sold that business in 1988 and did 2 further startups
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