Supporting retail executives in discovering new technology driven opportunities and to ensure the entire boardroom is technology led - no longer is it the sole responsibility of the CIO. Passionate about Supply Chains, Customers Experience and Employee Experience!Connected to product leaders in major technology providers, with experience built up from:- Recent Executive Board roles in national retailers- Senior roles in 'Big 4' Management consultancies and Tech Systems Integrators- Founding, running and selling niche consultancies- Senior roles in technology product leaders (e.g. SAP, Oracle, IBM)...and importantly from planning, shaping and delivering large scale and high value technology programmes and projects.In detail... over 25 years delivering technology solutions across retail and customer focused businesses: successful in large-scale global programmes and focused local initiatives. Worked closely with development teams at SAP HQ in Walldorf, Germany, in the team that launched SAP Retail in 1996/7, and am still working closely on supply chain developments.As IT & Logistics Director for Vision Express, part of Grand Vision (the leading global optical retailer), transformed production and turnaround times of finished products through lean manufacturing principles - whilst also addressing CRM systems to enable flexible segmentation, social media listening and analysis. Showed entrepreneurial side by founding and then developing a Retail / Consumer Goods IT consultancy, which was then sold for £millions to a larger UK organisation.Built an enviable SAP Retail client portfolio for Accenture to build a presence in the market. Specialities: Applying technology to business challenges. Delivered by: IT systems evaluation, appraisal, and delivery (Consumer Goods / Retail, Back and Front Office), Design and implementation of retail good practice, Supply Chain advisory, Solution Architecture, ERP driven change