Drew Cook Email & Phone Number

A Seasoned Non-Executive Director and Trustee with experience of governance and leadership in education, professional membership body and social housing at Board and Committee Chair level.A business-focused Leader with extensive experience in Higher Education, multi-channel retail, supply-chain & logistics, consultancy, commercial & corporate sectors gained through having worked for world-class multinational organizations at Executive Director. Who uses a strategic approach to create successful leadership, engaging with key stakeholders and 3rd parties, motivating teams to produce excellent performance and results, delivering ‘cost appropriate’ solutions.Someone who gets things done through pragmatic strategic and operational management of the IT Portfolio. Utilising an enterprise architecture approach, introducing and working with best practice frameworks and methods combined with agile approaches to enable rapid delivery of solutions.My background includes:• Recruitment of Chief Executives for a professional member organisation and a housing association.• Board level responsibility for all elements of IT from strategy development through to service delivery, budget management & control.• Merger, acquisition and company start-up including integration of organisations, people, process and technologies.• Managing the IT portfolio of applications, infrastructure & projects. Programme management of major applications & infrastructure implementations including SAP. Business process change & transformation projects including outsourcing & operational restructuring.• Developing & managing customer & supplier relationships including supplier selection, contract & SLA negotiation, & supplier relationship management. Technology evaluation, review & selection.• Substantial technical experience.

Listed skills include Strategy, Program Management, Team Leadership, Crm, and 26 others.