Successful businesses typically have great leaders. When a small or medium sized business wants to grow or diversify they often require the experience and capability of world-class leadership yet may not want or need them full time. In the current global environment with a disruptive, digital, agenda this is especially true for IT leaders.Mark Bartram is an experienced IT Director providing leadership at “C” level for small and medium sized businesses in the UK and beyond on a part time basis. He becomes a permanent, although part time, member of the business leadership team providing access to world class IT leadership at less cost than a full time employee.Mark’s career in IT extends over 30 years of which more than 20 years has been in IT executive leadership positions. He has had significant experience with business start-ups, new business development and, especially, business turnarounds. The business problems that he is most often asked to resolve include- "I don’t know whether I am getting value from my IT spend or not”- “We have a clear business strategy and a significant new market opportunity that IT seem unable to support”- “I need to reduce costs 20% across the board this year then keep them flat. How do I do that in IT whilst preserving value?”- “Our competitors always get to market before we do. IT lack urgency, how can I increase then sustain the pace of change?” Working with fewer than 10 selected businesses Mark seeks to provide world class IT leadership over the long term, helping progressive organisations meet and exceed their objectives. For more information please contact Mark directly on 07816 334 380 or at mark.bartram@cioable.co.uk or at https://cioable.co.uk/

A member of the IT executive committee and General Manager of the team that simplified the IT organization whilst completely transforming the customer experience and saving over $1B in direct spend.

A key member of the IT leadership team reporting to senior directors and ‘C’ level executives throughout an organisational transformation to become a market oriented competitive business partner to the global air transportation industry.

Reporting to the CIO at this market leader during an unprecedented period of acquisition and growth. Design and implementation of technology strategy to achieve top quartile performance and costs.

Reporting to the project review board of the consultancy and also to the CIO at the client, Pfizer Europe. Identification of data centre consolidation strategy with accompanying pilot implementation.

Reporting to the mid-range infrastructure manager at the centralised European Data Centre for the design and implementation of a technology refresh strategy.

IT Operations Manager