Bio

With 30+ years of experience as a business and IT executive, I have specialised in the areas of : - Financial Services technology and operations consulting, primarily in retail banking, corporate banking, insurance, investment banking and market infrastructure providers - Business / IT Strategy and Architecture: IT strategy, IT sourcing management, IT offshoring/outsourcing, Business Process Management - IT Management and Governance Consulting: Design and implementation of IT service management and service delivery (ITIL), systems development, capacity planning and performance management, IT package selection and project management (PRINCE 2). - IT Due Diligence, Mergers and Acquisitions, Post-merger integration and complex migration programmes. - Information Security and Risk Management consulting: design and implementation of IS/IT risk frameworks within Financial Services institutions, development of IS strategy and overall programme, definition of IS services models and frameworks (including CoBIT, ISF, ISO27001, NIST), IT/OT Cybersecurity convergence - Technology Consulting: specialised in mainframe technologies (IBM zSeries, iSeries), Service oriented architectures, e-business/e-commerce technologies, Identity Management solutions. - Digital Transformation: business case, opportunity identification, technology design, programme management for digital technologies involving IoT, Blockchain, AI, Big Data, mobility, RPA and others - Agile, DEVOPS / DEVSECOPS implementation - Compliance Programmes, anti-bribery / AML / SOX / GDPR / others Some previous FS client examples include global organisations such as Royal Bank of Scotland, JPMChase, Aviva, Prudential, Nationwide, Deutsche Bank, Co-op Financial Services, Mizuho, Barclays Capital, Barclays Group, etc.