Dr. Bhaskar Dasgupta
ABN AMRO
Biography
Bhaskar is the Head of Strategy and COO, Global Infrastructure which has a yearly €2.0 billion footprint of IT assets for ABN AMRO and is helping deliver the largest and most complex financial industry merger integration process from the technology infrastructure functional perspective. Joining ABN Amro in 2003, he headed up Strategy, Architecture and Change Management for ABN AMRO Europe’s IT Division and has lead the global Investment Bank’s Basel II programme; Strategic Risk Architecture programme, Professional Fees Cost reduction programme etc.
Prior to ABN Amro, he worked at Salomon Smith Barney; Goldman Sachs; Barclays Capital and other several international banks in a variety of trading and risk management roles as well as for PriceWaterhouseCoopers and SunGard. He is completing his second doctorate in Politics, Terrorism and Financial Markets from Kings College, London; his first was in financial mathematics and computational finance from Manchester Business School, Manchester. Besides holding an MBA in Finance and IT and BSc in Mathematics, he is also a visiting professor at several universities.
Chris Keeling
Barclays
Biography
Chris Keeling is a highly experienced risk management consultant and has specialised in the Business Continuity and Crisis Management disciplines for many years.
He is a Partner in Acuity Risk Management LLP, a management consultancy company providing Information Security, Risk Management, Business Continuity and Crisis Management services to a wide variety of public and private organisations in the UK and Europe.
He focuses on delivering Business Continuity and Crisis Management solutions and works with clients from all market sectors. He specialises in the financial services sector in the UK and sits on a number of business continuity industry groups and committees. In particular, over the past five years, Chris has worked closely with the Financial Services Authority in the delivery of the annual Tripartite (FSA, Bank of England and HM Treasury) Market Wide Exercises.
Chris was engaged by Barclays Bank PLC in 2005 to design and build an effective Crisis Management capability for the Group which was successfully delivered by the end of 2006 including the recruitment of a permanent team. Chris continues to provide crisis management and strategic business continuity support to Barclays on a part time basis. He is also currently supporting Crisis Management and Business Continuity for the Department for Children Schools and Families (DCSF) and the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass).
He is a recognised authority on crisis management and business continuity and is a frequent speaker at industry events and conferences. He is regularly quoted in industry publications and has authored a number of articles and white papers.
David Llamas
IT Director, Harrods
Biography
After 12 years working as a consultant and ERP program manager in retail and other industries, David joined Harrods in February 2003 as Enterprise Applications Controller. In April 2005, David was promoted to his current position of IT Director in charge of Technology Infrastructure, Business Applications, Business Intelligence, e-Commerce and Telecoms.
Executive MBA at London Business School 2005
Euan Davis
Forrester
Biography
Euan is a senior analyst who covers a broad range of topics for sourcing and vendor management professionals. His expertise spans IT and business process outsourcing, shared services, and the ongoing developments within the European IT services industry. Euan also researches and consults around sustainable ICT strategies.
Euan brings nine years of dedicated research experience to Forrester. Prior to joining Forrester, he served as Yankee Group’s European IT services domain expert for two years; prior to this, he worked at IDC for five years as a research manager for IT services. There, he managed the research agenda, directed custom consulting projects, and wrote syndicated research papers covering all aspects of the European IT services industry. He has lived and worked extensively in Europe, including six months in Madrid setting up a Spanish IT services research practice. Euan has also been featured in broadcast media, such as CNN, and has been extensively quoted in the Financial Times.
Euan has a B.A. degree from Portsmouth University and lives in Cambridge, UK.
Myron Hrycyk
CIO, NYK Logistics UK& Eire
Biography
Myron, a MBA from Birmingham University has delivered major I.T. strategic programmes and mission critical services. He has re-organised corporate I.T. units and deployed high performance I.T. practices for international businesses operating within a number of different sectors. With over twenty years of experience he has seen the role that I.T plays in commercial organisations move from the back office to being a major factor in delivering client facing competitive advantage.
Leading logistics service providers like NYK face increasing demands form their clients to further lean, speed up and increase visibility of products in the supply chain. Processes and technology are interwoven to produce competitive services and in today’s logistics business service providers need to integrate system internally and externally with clients and other companies in the supply chain.
Myron has previously presented at a number of IT industry conferences on a range of topics including “Delivery of Mission Critical Systems” and “Driving Business Innovation through IT”. Myron is a member of the BCS and number of other IT industry bodies.
Pascal Wattiaux
Biography
Pascal is currently an independent consultant.
Until recently he was the interim Director of Technology at the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games where he was responsible for defining a technology strategy, launching the first critical initiatives as well as recruiting an elite Technology Team. Pascal is still consulting for London2012.
His Olympic experience stretches back to 1988 when working for Andersen Consulting where he was director of a project for the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville. As Director of Technology for the International Olympic Committee (1996-1999) Pascal was responsible for the co-ordination of the technology departments of summer and winter Games, starting just after the Atlanta 1996 Games.
As Senior Vice-President of digital media company, Quokka, Pascal worked on optimising real time publishing of live events such as the Americas Cup and the Sydney Olympics on the internet, broadband platforms, wireless platforms and interactive TV.
In his previous roles Pascal has been Group CIO at Pinault-Printemps-Redoute, a senior manager at Price Waterhouse and Director for International Operations at Reebok International. He has been located in his native France, Switzerland, USA and in London.
Pascal has a Masters degree with majors in telecommunications, computer science and electronics from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris.
Peter Hambling
Chief Information Officer of Lloyds
Biography
Peter Hambling is the Chief Information Officer of Lloyds, heading up the specialist insurance markets Information Technology Group. Previously, he was responsible for designing and supervising the build of HSBC's 2nd generation global e-commerce platforms. These now run 48 Personal Financial Services businesses and 18 Commercial Banking businesses globally servicing over 30 million customers. He has led teams pioneering, developing and supporting very large complex multi-channel distributed global FX & MM trading systems, associated integration middleware and market data infrastructure.
Mr. Peter Josse,
Global Head of Technology Infrastructure and Service Delivery.
Biography
Peter’s current role is to manage a €1.8 billion footprint of IT assets for ABN AMRO and responsible for the delivery of largest and most complex financial industry merger integration process from the technology infrastructure functional perspective. This footprint crosses more than 50 countries; 5,000 FTE; multiple product and business lines and multiple external bodies. He has been with ABN AMRO for more than 9 years and has been variously the Global Head of Change Management; Chief Information Officer (Europe); Head of Global Telecommunications Networks and Storage; etc.
With more than 15 years of experience in the Investment Banking Technology area, he has overseen large transformation, cost savings, change, merger and new business development programmes and speaks frequently at industry events on outsourcing and offshoring, communications, service delivery, IT Organisational Management and Governance, etc.
Neal Williams,
Chairman, Founder, Chief Scientist, President of Corda Services.
Biography
Neal Williams is also the Founder & Chairman of the Board for Corda Technologies. Neal Williams formed Corda shortly after leaving WordPerfect where he spent many years researching and developing advanced data visualization techniques and solutions. Neal has instigated major product expansion and directed significant company growth at Corda. In 2001, the Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum named Neal Williams the Utah Entrepreneur of the Year. During Corda's existence, Neal has overseen many firsts:
- The first non-Macromedia company to develop a solution supporting Flash technology
- The first company to support Scalable Vector Graphing (SVG) technology for graphing and charting
- The first company to provide the ability to utilize wireless technology to deliver data graphics to desktops, handheld devices and cell phones
- The first company to provide interactive charts, graphs and maps that have descriptive text enabling the visually impaired to "see" the graphical data with the use of a screen reader
- The first to automatically deliver the highest possible image a browser can accept utilizing best image auto-detect functionality
Steve Willson,
Copan Systems
Biography
Steve Willson has 20 years experience working in systems consulting, support, pre-sales and solutions roles for a variety of solution vendors. For the last 10 years, Steve has focussed on the emerging storage market, helping the first customers move from captive storage, through to shared infrastructures, and consulted on storage solutions, disaster recovery, business continuity, backup, security and now long-term retention and retrieval. Steve is the Solutions director for COPAN Systems in EMEA.
Tony Stranack,
Pre-Sales Consultant, Kavanagh.
Biography
Tony Stranack joined Kavanagh in 2006. He holds a BSc in Computer Technology, and has 19 years experience of working in the IT industry. Before joining Kavanagh, Tony worked at EMC for 11 years where he was Lead Technology Business Consultant. Tony brings to Kavanagh and its clients a unique depth of knowledge around the Data Centre including substantial experience of practices and processes within the operational environment. His previous clients include, Royal Bank of Scotland, British Telecom, Vodafone, Barclays Bank, Norwich Union and Prudential.
Maurice Winn,
System Manager, Southampton Container Terminals.
Biography
- IT Veteran in Container Terminal and Freight Industry
- Extensive experience in the management, development and deployment of Container Terminal systems and Software
- System migration expert within Mainframe environments and Mainframe to NT
Adam Oliver,
Head Of Corporate Social Responsibility + A&D Research, BT.
Biography
So what good is all this technology, if it doesn't do anything for people or our customers?
Adam lead’s BT’s research into new technologies to help our disabled and elderly customers, along with research into the three strands of BT’s CSR strategy; tackling climate change, sustainable ecolomic growth and creating a more inclusive society. Adam has a keen interest in the inclusive design of our products and is at the forefront of BT’s drive for accessible products for all our customers. Working with his colleagues across BT and external organisations, Adam also aims to convert BT’s innovation into inspiration.
For example, after meeting some visually impaired teenagers who were excluded from the world of text messaging Adam lead research to develop handheld text message readers and proved the concept of SMS reading. This lead to the creation of BT Text where anyone can have a text message sent to their home number.
BT has a long-standing commitment to social inclusion and also products to help the disabled. For example, BT’s BT Retail Age and Disability team recently celebrated 21 years of existence and many developments in telephony have their roots in special needs. CSR has a wide remit and can cover from bridging the digital divide, through to reduction in power consumption.
The ecological effect of energy and commodity consumption will become ever more important over the coming years and being able to articulate our saving to the planet through improved ways of working or reduced power consumption of our services will be of benefit. Some innovation will come out of specific research directed by the CSR + A&D programme and some will be from other programmes that happen to create innovation that can be of benefit. Adam is always keen to meet interesting people who are interested in this work and who are keen to help.
Adam, 40 has worked for BT for 18 years and is based in BT Centre, but often can be found in Starbucks in Paternoster Square sharing his vision for Inclusive Innovation.
Colonel Bob Stewart,
Chairman, Independent Defence Media Association.
Biography
Colonel Bob Stewart was the first British UN Commander in Bosnia for which he was awarded the DSO. Ending his Service in 1995 as Chief of Policy at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe he first joined the Political Affairs Division of Hill and Knowlton (UK) Ltd, a public relations company, until he became Managing Director of WorldSpace UK Ltd, a digital satellite broadcasting company. Now he runs a consultancy specialising in business leadership, security, crisis management, motivation, and negotiation. Currently Chairman of the Independent Defence Media Association.
Bob's experience of extreme situations means he has fascinating insight into crisis management and the disputes that arise between people, communities, companies and countries. Coupled with his extensive business experience, he delivers powerful messages on leadership, motivation and teamwork.
David Wilde,
CIO and head of Information and Customer Services, London Borough of Waltham Forest.
Biography
Currently CIO and head of Information and Customer Services at the London Borough of Waltham Forest, David is responsible for the Council’s ICT services, transforming service delivery, Project and Programme management profession and customer service provision.
Previously David was Head of e-Business and Head of Internal and Electronic Communications for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM), where he was responsible for development and delivery the ICT strategy and service management, e-government delivery through the e-transformations programmes and internal and electronic communications strategies and operations for the Office.
Prior to that David worked in Internet service development and delivery, running the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA) internet services team responsible for over 150 government web sites and 250 database applications. He also worked on Schools policy in the Department for Education and Employment, taking forward the development of the Schools Capital allocations system and the New Deal for Schools programme.
Malcolm Whitehouse,
IS Director and CIO, Job Centre Plus.
Biography
Malcolm Whitehouse has a career spanning 28 years in IT. He is the IS Director and CIO for Job Centre Plus - the largest executive agency within the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Formerly Chief Technology Officer for DWP with nearly five years experience of public sector IT. Prior to this Malcolm was in the Financial Services sector as e-Business Director for Royal and SunAlliance. His career has been exclusively in IT strategy and management of delivery with a short spell overseas in Japan.
Within this career he has seen through significant change in the financial services sector including mergers and acquisitions, major legislative change in the Life and Pensions industry and most recently he is overseeing the delivery of the IT to support the first major welfare reform change this century, the Employment and Support Allowance.
Business delivery first and IT in support is the approach he has always taken to ensure that the outcomes that are delivered are fit for purpose. He is married with six children so apart from rugby, his family takes precedent in his private life.
Duncan Jones,
Senior Analyst, Forrester.
Based in London, Duncan primarily contributes to Forrester's offerings for the Sourcing & Vendor Management professional and is a frequent contributor to research on the business process and applications professional. As a leading expert on enterprise softwaresourcing, pricing, and licensing, Duncan helps clients make good choices between alternative solution providers and negotiate advantageous software license and maintenance agreements. Duncan also covers software for purchasing professionals, includinge Procurement, eSourcing, contract life-cycle management, and electronic invoice presentment and payment. He has more than 20 years of experience using enterprise applications to improve business performance.
Jacqueline de Rojas,
Managing Director, UK and Ireland, Novell.
Jacqueline de Rojas was appointed to the post of Managing Director, UK and Ireland, Novell, in June 2007. In this role, Jacqueline has directed responsibility for all Novell business operations across UK and Ireland and reports directly to Javier Colado, Area General Manager EMEA West.
de Rojas has a strong background in technology, with a focus on enterprise software sales. Prior to Novell her career spans 20 years in leadership roles and she has successfully led change initiatives inside a variety of challenging environments within the enterprise software space.
Most recently de Rojas served as Vice President of Sales covering EMEA & Asia Pacific at Cartesis, where she was responsible for transforming the company into a licence-driven business, increasing revenues internationally and building the channel strategy. She was also involved in the sale of the company to Business Objects. Previously de Rojas has held executive roles at Business Objects, Ascential Software, Informix Software and Computer Associates.
de Rojas has a dual degree in European Business from the Middlesex Business School and the Fachhochschule in Reutlingen, Germany.
Andy Bruen,
Home Access Project Lead, DSGi Business.
Andy Bruen has worked for DSGi Business for the last four years fulfilling a number of strategic roles. Andy’s current focus has been the integration of DSGi’s business processes with the goals behind the Government’s Home Access Taskforce, chaired by Jim Knight MP, Minister of State for Schools and Learners at the Department for Children Schools and Families. Andy is a permanent member of the Solutions Workstream working for the Home Access Programme Board that reports into the Taskforce and has led the development of DSGi’s Home Access solution. Previous roles for DSGi Business have included HomeWorks Programme Manager and HCI Sales Manager for DSGi’s Public Sector customer base.
Gary Dixon,
Head of Enterprise Business, Steljes.
Gary Dixon is Head of Enterprise Business at Steljes and is responsible for promoting collaborative solutions for the corporate market. He has over 22 years experience in the enterprise technology sector in a broad range of disciplines from learning and developing, technical training through to business development.
He previously held the post of Director of Education for Netonomy Inc. where he successfully pioneered modern learning techniques into the company’s curriculum for both technical and business training courseware. He also held posts in several blue chip companies including Microsoft, Business Objects and Apple UK.
Dr. Seán Baker
Co-founder & Non-Executive Director, IONA Technologies.
Dr. Seán Baker co-founded IONA in March 1991, and has served in various senior management and technical roles since that time. He is currently a Non-Executive Director. He articulates IONA's technical vision to both technical and management audiences. From 1981 to 1994, Dr. Baker held a tenured post in the Department of Computer Science Department at Trinity College, Dublin, where he also received his doctorate in computer science. In Trinity, he helped found and manage the Distributed Systems Group. He is the author of "CORBA Distributed Objects" and co-author of "CORBA Fundamentals and Practice".
Edwin Willems,
Director of Marketing, Europe, BDNA.
Edwin Willems has a career spanning over 20 years in IT. He is Director of Marketing, Europe for BDNA, a leading solution provider of IT infrastructure insight and analysis.
At Business Objects, he developed a marketing performance management methodology, as the VP of European Marketing. This methodology, which improved the accountability and ROI, and led to a better alignment between marketing and the other functions, was implemented worldwide after its European roll-out.
His past track record of introducing transparency and accountability in functions that are historically difficult to measure will support him in what BDNA wants to achieve: bring transparency and accountability into the Office of the CIO, to help CIOs get better insight to manage the business of IT.
He is married with two children, and likes travelling, scuba diving and wine tasting.
Brian Amo,
Senior Analyst, Forrester.
BSc in Computer Science and BSc in Business Administration. After 10 years in big consultancies I joined Harrods as a Systems Integration Manager 3 years ago. In the past helped customers in industries like manufacturing, retail, banking, oil and public sector to define and implement enterprise solutions. My areas of expertise are EAI/SOA, BPM, ERP and CRM, Internet Systems, Enterprise Portals and Content Management Systems. My current responsibilities in Harrods are to define integration strategy and carry out projects related to EAI/SOA, Enterprise Portal and Content Management.
