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United Kingdom

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

This highly acquisitive, private equity-backed company acquired five businesses and has grown to 700 staff across 40 sites. I orchestrated the seamless integration of IT systems and technologies for the Group, consolidating them into a unified, consistent framework.As Group IT Director, I drive strategic growth initiatives through leadership, manage budgets and procurement, stay current on emerging technologies, lead successful business integration, innovate digital strategies, ensure operational excellence, negotiate contracts, address security threats, and contribute to global IT collaborations.

Redhill, England, United Kingdom

Teddington, London

Defined the Information Security strategy to increase the resilience of the BMT Group Manage compliance programmes for all statutory and regulatory requirements Implement policies, procedures and training programmes globally to defend against and respond to Information Security incidents.

Teddington, London

Designed an ICT Strategy that directly contributes to the attainment of the BMT's strategic business objectives.Advised the Executive Committee, Managing Directors and Presidents and key stakeholders across 25 subsidiaries and 60 International locations on all ICT mattersProject managed the migration of ICT services to cloud based servicesNegotiated and managed global supply agreements with tier 1 providers

Providing technical solutions to business issues.Managing IT teams worldwide.Defining global hardware, software and security strategies for the Gurit group of companies.Managing the integration of new acquisitions into the exisiting Gurit infrastructure.Managing vendor relationships for global purchasing programmes.

Certificate In Company Direction (International)

Mba, Business

Mba, European Summer School For Advanced Management

Bsc (Hons), Biology

Activities and Societies: Offshore Sailing team, Rugby Team

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