This is a profile from the 2022 version of the DataIQ 100.
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What has been your path to power?
My career started on the Barclays graduate programme. My career advanced quickly under excellent executive guidance and hard work. Amid the early days of the financial crisis, I was asked by RBS to play a pivotal role in its turnaround. Given the uncertainties of the times, I was given a lot of advice against making the move, but my heart told me that I’d regret not at least trying to help turnaround the critical situation at RBS and across the UK. So, I left Barclays and over four years, I had a challenging time delivering a data and analytics transformation roadmap. I left the company having delivered everything I had set out to and more.
I left RBS to gain experience in the start-up market. I then made a long-planned move into consulting with Atos. My successes there led to an opportunity to join IBM Global Business Services as its UK and Ireland executive for data platforms, advanced analytics, and Industry 4.0 and IoT. Eventually wanting a more diversified, stretching and global role, I joined Avanade where I now work between as the global executive lead for data platforms and the Accenture-Microsoft business group leader for data and AI across Europe.
What impact has the pandemic had on demand from your clients?
Every organisation faced disruption and priorities changed very quickly. The impact was a dramatic focus as clients, both new and old, accelerated their digital plans (cloud adoption, data, AI, security, modern workplace solutions and business applications). What really accelerated was the focus and investment in data programmes as clients increasingly understood that the success of their digital plans depended on cloud adoption, which in-turn depended on their migration of on-premise legacy systems onto modern cloud data platforms.
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