Cognizant Servian is an Enterprise Digital Transformation Consultancy specialising in helping highly regulated enterprises transform faster, modernising their ways of working. We’ve worked on hundreds of enterprise engagements with over 200 of the world’s leading brands.As a Engagement Lead and Director, I am accountable for the successful delivery of customer engagements, helping our customers navigate the transformation of people, processes and technology, while providing leadership oversight and governing multiple delivery engagements.

Contino is an Enterprise DevOps and Cloud Transformation Consultancy. We specialise in helping highly-regulated enterprises transform faster, modernising their way of working.We're experienced and referenceable experts in what we do, transforming people, processes and technology to enable the rapid digital transformation that success demands in today's accelerating marketplace. We’ve worked on over 200 enterprise engagements with over 100 of the world’s leading brands, so we fully understand the challenges you face.

Funding Xchange was founded to help business owners navigate the funding space and take control of funding their business – addressing one of the biggest obstacles growing businesses are facing. As owners of small businesses, we have first-hand experience of how difficult it can be to find the right funding for your business – even if there are now hundreds of innovative solutions available. This led us to set up Funding Xchange, the marketplace for business funding. - Simplifies access to business finance through one funding request - Delivers the best available quotes, from the whole of the lending market - Promises to always be transparent and unbiased - Never charges the business for using our services

At 11:FS, they believe that digital banking is only 1% finished – meaning that despite billions spent and everyone on the planet having a transformation project, they have still got a long way to go before banking becomes truly digital. They have assembled the A-list team that will achieve digital banking’s next 99%. Recognized as the world’s top Banking, FinTech and Insurance leaders, they have transformed traditional banks from within, started tech accelerators, and built on blockchain. They have also literally built new banks and FinTech from scratch with team members being instrumental in challengers like Monzo, Starling, Nutmeg and Tandem. Steve lead the technology work streams for new digital propositions for 2 well known high street financial service companies.

Digital IT Director for Travelodge

Accountable for Product & Technology strategy, development and operations for Platform, Network, Technology Innovation & IT, across global Mobile, OTT Video, Financial Services, and IP voice/ messaging propositions.

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world and it publishes in both academic and education fields. It is one of the very few independent global publishing companies of scale which is not part of a major conglomerate and its turnover is over £750m. It is a very successful commercial organisation, and has shown strong organic sales growth over a number of years.Steve is the Interim Director of Technology Platforms providing global leadership and strategic direction for the design, development, implementation, management and support of the Press’s technology services and platforms.Leading six towers or centres of excellence (platform service and development, enterprise service and development, content service and development, integration service and development, infrastructure service and development and testing), Steve is driving the delivery of the technology strategy as well as significant organisational change.Steve owns application platforms across the company, managing the technologies on a day-to-day basis through a combination of OUP leads and support through Cognizant, which will deliver day to day application management and support. Steve is responsible for leading the creation of standardised platforms upon which new solutions can be delivered. Working in partnership with the divisional IT Business Partners, the solutions delivered encompass ERP, CRM, CMS, web development and specialist products around learning and assessment. Steve is also responsible for transforming the development organisation to a more agile model and introducing development and delivery management best practise throughout the organisation.

Steve is a CIO/CTO with extensive experience building technology platforms, products and teams. Proven experience leading and managing large multi-discipline, multi-location teams, from product development, UI/UX, business analysis, software engineering and operations. Specialising in Agile and modern DevOps processes Steve has successfully transformed the software and delivery function of a number of organisations.Experience with both large corporations and start-ups either building from scratch or running established teams. Successfully engenders delivery mentality, quality first approach and recognised best practices to the organisations Steve is involved with. Able to apply 20 years of technical leadership, software development, solution architecture and people management help companies achieve their business goals.Confident in reporting to up to the Board level on all aspects of Product & Technology as well as being involved in the low-level development and architectural decisions with the team.Specialties: CTO, CIO, B2B, B2C, Enterprise Architecture, Building motivated and effective technical teams, Business Process, Information, Technology and Planning,Information Technology Improvement. DevOps, Program/Project and Portfolio Management, System Evaluation and Selection Process, Global Outsourcing, Product, Management, Board reporting, Infrastructure, Servers, Hosting, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, SOA, CMS, Development, Mobile, Big Data, Quality Assurance, Design, UX, Onshore, Offshore, Nearshore, Contracts, Negotiation, Commercial, Scrum, Agile, Open Source, .Net, Microsoft, Cloud, Elastic, Amazon EC2, Azure

Contino are a consultancy who specialise in enhancing the results of software delivery projects through the successful adoption of DevOps, Continuous Delivery and Pragmatic Agile practices. We have a presence in London and New York. We help our clients: - Modernise how they work with Enterprise DevOps & Continuous Delivery - Modernise their infrastructure with cloud - Modernise their application delivery with container technology - Modernise their architectures with Microservices We are a leading Docker, Inc partner. We have worked with many enterprise brands to adopt containers towards a succesful production deployment. We provide consultancy services, complete delivery teams, and training for organisations looking to deliver software with a collaborative DevOps mindset.

Steve was hired to help with the ongoing technology transformation project, this is an ambitious project that will revolutionise the way software is developed and deployed across William Hill.Steve advised William Hill on how to organise the teams to increase their speed of delivery whilst ensuring code quality and reducing bottlenecks and dependencies across the teams. Steve ensured the teams agreed best practice, technology standards and knowledge sharing across locations reducing duplication of work. Acting as line manager to the development managers, Steve streamlined the hiring processes, reducing the time spend by the senior developers and reducing theme to hire ensuring William Hill secured the best talent in the market.

Heading up the Technology Services Division at Hogarth Worldwide.Hogarth is a Marketing Implementation agency that uses proprietary technology to deliver savings for blue-chip global brands. By putting together a series of new systems and technologies, Hogarth produces and delivers national and international campaigns at a fraction of the historic cost, while enhancing quality. We are experts in the areas of; Production Efficient, high-quality workflows across TV, print and digital. Using this production capability we are able to implement international marketing campaigns from hubs with outstanding efficiency. Transcreation An integrated transcreation service that uses local market copywriters and voice talents to ensure relevance and creative quality is maintained. Hogarth also leads in the application of translation technology to marketing copy. Technology Industry leading technology in the three critical areas of workflow automation, video/print production and asset management/distribution. Our systems are revolutionising how global marketers access, manage and distribute their marketing assets. Studio management Hogarth has taken on the management of multiple ‘out-sourced’ studios. In all the cases we have reduced the prices but maintained profitability through improved technology and workflows.SpecialtiesAdvertising, Marketing, Production, TV post production, Web banners, Press ad production, Pre press, Colour management and delivery, CGI, Production technology and systems, Packaging production, Translations, Transcreation, Digital Asset Management

Responsible for all production infrastructure management and uptime of Rightster platforms both cloud and physical.Develop strategic plans that support long-term business objectives and enable the company to meet the current and future demands of its customers.Documentation of current and proposed processInternal project management of design, scoping and testing of automated solutionsManual delivery of requirements until automated solutions in place, and final migrationContinuous improvement and feature enhancementSpecify and deliver systems to support all internal operational processesDecide on build versus buy for key internal and external processes Build an organisation and staff capacity, developing a world class workforce and the processes that ensure the organisation runs smoothly.Responsible for the overall performance of all operational business units. Develop forward-thinking strategic plans and establish priorities to improve, monitor, and measure operational performance across each area.Take accountability for customer business and technical support including customer satisfactionResponsible for revenue operations including billing, payments and timely collectionsEnsure company wide capability in 24/7 real time reporting internally and to clientsWorking with VP of Engineering and CTO ensure continuous quality delivery of softwareProvide a strong day-to-day leadership presence and support an open-door policy among all staff. Ensure continuous business improvement Define processes for management visibility to critical issues and drive resolution across the teamResponsible for Supply chain management of end to end cloud systemVendor management to improve workflows into and out of Rightster.comContinuous improvement of supplier integrationsKnowledge and implementation of new technologies to improve workflowsAccountability for Vendor procurement and management

Steve White is a Head Information Systems and Technology at BT, his roles include leading the engagement for BT with YouView and looking at future strategy for BT's IPTV ambitions, including online, connected TVs, STBs, gaming consoles and tablets.

Responsible for the broadband technology at ITVSteve joined ITV in January 2007, built a brand new .Net based technology team and was responsible for launching ITV's VOD offering - the ITV Player to market. This involved managing all the technology decisions, platform infrastructure, operations and 3rd parties.Steve successfully delivered ITV's new Video on Demand web platform consisting of a brand new infrastructure comprising over 100 servers and network appliances. Steve's team have built an in house content management system and video management system that integrated into strategically selected 3rd party software and applications for specific functions e.g. social networking. The platform Steve was responsible for had 99.95% uptime record and is used by in excess of 11 million users per month.

Head of Development for online gambling software house. Mananging a team of over 100 developers, QA engineers and technical project managers to create/enhance J2EE software applications supporting Gamesys Group Ltd online gambling solutions.