Paul Birkin is a Portfolio CTO, CAIO and CIO at Freelance. He possess expertise in it strategy, outsourcing, enterprise architecture, strategy, enterprise software and 34 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Paul is a executive technologist with senior business skills in global organizations – this hybrid skill set enables him to effectively translate enterprise needs into effective strategies and solutions. Paul’s uncommonly broad and deep technical expertise spans the IT industry. He creates enterprise-level technical strategies with concomitant enabling architectures. He conceives the change program to deliver against business opportunities and drives the entire technology lifecycle through to fruition. He is a natural communicator at all levels of the organization." and "I've had the pleasure of working for Paul (My account CTO on Shell and Rolls-Royce) for the last 4 years. Paul is probably the most dedicated professional I've come across in my career so far. Paul's ability to build relationships at all levels is extraordinary. Key to Paul's success from my point of view is his ability to build and retain strong teams, lead and support them as well as gain the respect of the client. Paul and his CTO team were frequently cited by his clients as the glue that keeps the whole client relationship moving forward. Paul combines the ability to multi-multi task, stand strong amongst the fiercest of leaders, create innovative ways for clients to truly transform their business capability through the application of achievable business and technology roadmaps, strong governance and the establishment and support high calibre teams as well as win the ultimate respect of his clients. One of the things I noticed about the teams Paul creates is that no-one leaves which is the strongest endorsement I can think of to describe Paul's leadership quality. I hope to work with Paul again some time soon. Until then, I wish Paul the very best of success in his next role."