Ian Penny is Chief Technology Officer for Infrastructure and Head of Infrastructure as a Service and at Barclays. Mr. Penny has worked in Financial, Pharmaceutical, and Research industries for the past 20 years leading technology teams to solve critical business issues. Prior to joining Barclays in 2014, he was Managing Director for Distributed Technology Engineering & Architecture at JPMorgan. Previously he was Managing Director Technology Core Services at Bear Stearns and Director of Enterprise Strategy & Architecture at Pfizer. He began his career as a distributed systems research scientist funded by the UK Government and has published papers on parallel computing and low latency networking.

CTO Infrastructure @ Chief Technology Officer for Infrastructure at Barclays with accountability for strategy, infrastructure transformation, technology research, and external advocacy. From March 2015 to Present (10 months) Managing Director, Infrastructure as a Service @ Global Head of Infrastructure as a Service for Barclays. Fully accountable for service delivery & operations, infrastructure roadmap, strategic cost plan, and all decisions involving the IaaS estate: cloud, virtualisation, distributed servers, storage, mainframes, directory, etc. From March 2015 to Present (10 months) Managing Director, Distributed Technology @ Global head of Distributed Technology for Barclays. Fully accountable for service delivery & operations, infrastructure roadmap, strategic cost plan, and all decisions involving the distributed technology estate: cloud, virtualisation, servers, storage, databases, directory, enterprise management, etc. From January 2014 to March 2015 (1 year 3 months) Managing Director, Distributed Engineering & Architecture @ Managing Director of Distributed Technology Engineering and Architecture at J.P. Morgan. Responsible for leading the research, development, and engineering of distributed systems and HPC infrastructure including hardware (server, storage) and software (OS, Systems Management, grid computing, database, middleware, messaging, and web). From June 2008 to December 2013 (5 years 7 months) Managing Director, Core Services @ Managing Director Core Services responsible for all aspects of Infrastructure Operations within the CTO organization. From February 2007 to June 2008 (1 year 5 months) Director, Strategy & Enterprise Architecture @ Director of Infrastructure Architecture responsible for design and delivery of Pfizer technical architecture and management of engineering teams. From February 2002 to February 2007 (5 years 1 month) Senior Technical Analyst @ Global Storage Architect and technical lead for European storage team. From April 2000 to February 2002 (1 year 11 months) London, United KingdomSenior Discovery Systems Manager @ Senior Systems Manager for R&D Discovery From January 1997 to April 2000 (3 years 4 months) Research Fellow @ From 1992 to 1996 (4 years)

BSc (Honours), Computer Science @ University of Kent From 1989 to 1992 Ian Penny is skilled in: IT Strategy, Vendor Management, Business Analysis, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Architecture, Trading Systems, Virtualization, Databases, Strategy, Architecture, Storage, Financial Services, Governance, Management, Disaster Recovery