I fell in love with computers at fifteen, while discovering that teaching at a local computer training institute would be very good pocket money. That early fascination with computers and what they could do never left me. My passion today is digital transformation, especially in the financial sector. I spend my time persuading IT teams to shift to digital native and produce business outcomes that are 10x better. I've persuaded team after team to do just that at scale. My core strength is driving the traditional past towards a modern, high performance present - through digital transformation and changed ways of working. Taking advantage of a broad and somewhat maverick set of career experiences, I bring digital native thinking and the ability to challenge the accepted. My opportunity is the huge shifts in paradigm that are happening in tech, where staying with the as-is often proves a huge competitive disadvantage. In the course of my career, I have built tech-centric businesses, e-commerce leaders, mobile trading applications, capital market solutions and banking transformations. I’ve advised on outsourcing effectiveness, digital transformation and some very successful cloud deployments. I've managed large IT setups with hundreds of offices, thousands of different kinds of devices and billions of real time transactions. I’ve spoken, written and presented extensively on e-commerce, mobile, cloud, development methodologies, strategic outsourcing and the changing world of online and social media. I'm a former marathoner, part-time visual designer, obsessive reader and infrequent foodblogger who spends a lot of time on a bicycle - most recently a solo trip across Japan.