I am a versatile, strategic and outcome-driven IT Leader who combines technical, digital and business skills. I am passionate about leveraging IT to maximise business value to an organisation and its customers through transformation, cost reduction, effective leadership and creative innovation. At Legal & General, I held the role of CIO for the Savings and Insurance (Life and GI) businesses as well as Digital across the Group. I have a strong track record of IT delivery of complex transformational change (digital, growth and regulatory - circa £100m+) across IT and business functions through relentless execution excellence. I have in depth experience in 1st and 2nd generation outsourcing and off-shoring and in leading organisational change from in-sourced to outsourced or hybrid models. I am experienced in strategic digital transformation to enable customer centricity, operational efficiency and creation of enhanced business propositions. I have introduced new agile digital ways of working in environments that are mainly waterfall, turning concepts into capabilities, enabling the delivery of ambitious Digital Roadmap to realise significant business benefit. I am an effective communicator, influencing with integrity, simplifying complexity and offering solutions. I am passionate about choosing great people and to lead and motivate them to reach their full potential. I enjoy facing off and working closely with my colleagues in the business to deliver to our joint objectives. Experienced across various sectors including Banking (Retail & Investment), Financial Services (cards and insurance), e-Commerce/digital and entrepreneurial Software Products.

IT Director, Savings, Insurance and Digital @ From November 2013 to Present (2 years 2 months) IT Director - Savings, RDR & Financial Reporting @ From August 2008 to November 2013 (5 years 4 months) Interim IS Delivery Director @ From August 2008 to January 2009 (6 months) Chief Technology Officer @ From September 2005 to August 2008 (3 years) Chief Technology Manager & acting Head of Technology @ From August 2003 to September 2005 (2 years 2 months) Senior IT Manager @ From March 2002 to August 2003 (1 year 6 months) Chief Technology Officer @ From February 2000 to January 2002 (2 years)

PhD, Computer-Aided Engineering @ University of Bath