Andy Gregory, deputy director, data services and analytics, UK Home Office

What has been your path to power?

I spent the first 20 years of my career working in a variety of project, operational and strategy roles in the world of telecomms, initially at One2One (which became T-Mobile), then at Cable & Wireless, which was followed by a stint working at Vodafone in Romania for three years, then with Brightstar in Moscow for a year before returning to the UK to take a role with Vodafone Group. After 18 months at Vodafone, I moved to Sky for five years and eventually made the leap to my current role at the Home Office in Summer 2018. 

Over the course of my career, my roles have evolved from customer service operational planning, to Project Delivery to large-scale ERP deployments to process and performance transformations, all scattered with a healthy dose of integration, interfaces and databases. As the focus of industry and society has moved from large monolithic systems to end-to-end processes and more recently to integrated data, so has my career and I have been incredibly lucky to work with some of the very best and brightest technologists and some inspirational business leaders along the way.