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THE PEER-LED COMMUNITY FOR SENIOR IT PROFESSIONALS


7 DECEMBER 2021


CIO CAREER DEVELOPMENT

MAKING THE BOARD IN 2022

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CIO CROWD SPEAKERS

Stephen Kelly

Avril Chester

Abhijit Akerkar

Martin Borrett

Adenike Cosgrove

Ian Golding

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STEPHEN KELLY

Sage Group, and UK Government

Stephen has 35 years’ unique leadership experience in both the private and
public sectors. He has held CEO positions with three successful UK & USA public
tech companies, as well as spending three years as COO of the UK Government,
consistently delivering outstanding results in disruptive markets.

Most recently, Stephen was Chief Executive of FTSE100 company, Sage Group. Sage
is the UK’s largest technology company. During Stephen’s tenure, Sage became a
global Top 10 publicly-listed cloud company by revenue, and the fastest growing
from a standing start. Under Stephen’s four-year tenure, Sage saw its market
value double. Stephen launched the Sage Foundation, reaching out to communities
and charities to promote inclusive, compassionate capitalism.

Prior to his time at Sage, Stephen served as Chief Operating Officer for the UK
Government (HMG) until November 2014. As the most senior Civil Servant, Stephen
was responsible for the Efficiency and Reform programme including Digital,
Technology, Commercial, Major Projects and SME strategies across UK Central
Government Departments. Between 2010 and 2015, the programme delivered £50bn of
savings for taxpayers, whilst improving citizen services (e.g. GOV.UK), and UK
SME job creation. Stephen was a member of the Cabinet Office Board and HMG’s
Senior Information Risk Officer (GSIRO).

Before this, Stephen was the Chief Executive Officer of two fast-growing public
tech companies: FTSE 100-listed Micro Focus, and Nasdaq-listed Chordiant
Software. During his four years at Micro Focus, the company achieved a 7-fold
increase in market value. At Chordiant, Stephen was part of the Californian
‘start-up’ team to a ‘Deloitte Fastest 50’ of $100m revenues and Nasdaq IPO.
Prior to this, Stephen was at Oracle for nine years on the European executive
team. Stephen has held NED roles, including Curam Software which was acquired by
IBM in 2011. Currently, Stephen is NED of Kimble Applications.

Over his diverse CEO career adding £5bn+ of market value, Stephen has come to be
particularly experienced in creating compelling visions and strategies; leading
market and digital disruption; creating strong teams with positive cultures; and
governing in complex stakeholder landscapes. His robust operational skills
ensure for near flawless execution.

Stephen received an honorary doctorate from Bath University in Business
Administration and has been a Business Ambassador for the British Prime
Minister.

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AVRIL CHESTER

Cancer Central

Avril Chester is 2019 Women in IT awards Entrepreneur of the Year and Founder &
CEO of Cancer Central, a technology start-up signposting to cancer services,
products and support on a local and national level. Cancer Central is built on
an intelligent AI chat platform, nicknamed ‘Ave’, powered by IBM Watson and
created from over 20,000 donated hours by 100+ subject matter experts and 20+
organisations with major contributions from TechFINIUM and ROQ. Avril is
co-creator of the ‘Human Open Source Model’ called cominovation.

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ABHIJIT AKERKAR

Artificial Intelligence Strategist

Lloyds Banking Group

Abhijit is an Artificial Intelligence Strategist and Business Integrator. He is
bringing machine intelligence to life at the Lloyds Banking Group. His focus is
on combining machine and human intelligence with data to fundamentally change
the way the bank does business and create new opportunities for customers and
colleagues.

Earlier, at McKinsey & Company, Abhijit engaged with leaders from large
enterprises to help them take strategic and investment decisions, build new
digital business models, and drive above-market growth. Previously, at HCL
Technologies, Abhijit built and led tech-enabled businesses in Europe and Asia.
An engineer by training, Abhijit has an MBA from London Business School with
exchange at MIT Sloan.

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MARTIN BORRETT

IBM Security Europe

Martin Borrett is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO at IBM Security Europe.
He advises at the most senior level in clients on policy, business, technical
and architectural issues associated with security. Martin leads IBM’s Security
Blueprint work and is co-author of the IBM Redbooks Introducing the IBM Security
Framework and IBM Security Blueprint to Realize Business-Driven Security and
Understanding SOA Security. He is Chairman of the European IBM Security Board of
Advisors, represents IBM at GFCE, ECSO and the Industry Advisory Board of LORCA,
the London Office for Rapid Cybersecurity Advancement, is a Fellow of the
British Computer Society, a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and member of the IET.
Martin has a passion for sailing and has represented Great Britain; he is also a
keen tennis player.

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ADENIKE COSGROVE

Cybersecurity Strategy, International – Proofpoint

Adenike (Nikki) Cosgrove is the Cybersecurity Strategist for international
markets at Proofpoint, where she drives product marketing strategy across
European and Asia Pacific markets. She provides expertise on key regional
cybersecurity strategies such as people-centric security, risk management, data
privacy, and compliance.

With a deep understanding of CISO’s challenges, and vast experience helping
clients with their cybersecurity strategies Nikki is a regular speaker at key
conferences including the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit in the US
and Japan, the Fortune Brainstorm conferences, the Evanta CIO Executive Summit,
it-sa Germany, ISMS Spain and Hacking Human Nature live. Nikki’s subject matter
expertise has also been featured in Business Reporter, Computer Business Review,
Computing, Forbes, Intelligent CISO, SC Magazine UK, The Telegraph, GovInfo, and
iTWire.

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IAN GOLDING

CIO

The Natural History Museum

Ian Golding has been Chief Information Officer, Chief Technical Officer and Data
Privacy Officer leading global commercial technology programmes for over 20
years and has a passion for fostering collaboration and innovation to exploit
the benefits of technology and data in permanent, interim, fractional and
private consulting roles.

He is currently Interim CIO at The Natural History Museum, developing the
Technology Strategy and Vision to support the its dual role as a centre of
excellence in leading scientific research and as a world leading museum that is
digitising its vast 86M collection. In 2017 As Royal National Lifeboat
Institution’s first CIO (Interim) he created the Institution’s first digital,
information and technology strategy including new capability for fundraising,
predictive analytics and data-based insights that will help the RNLl to break
the chain of events that can tragically lead to drowning. Ian was also recently
Interim IT Director at Southern Housing Group and prior to Interim roles was
Group CIO, Data Privacy Officer and Senior Partner for The ERM Group through its
largest growth phase over 4 private equity cycles, to 5,200 staff across 140
offices worldwide.

He is a Fellow of The Institute of Engineering & Technology, Fellow of The
Institute of Directors, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Chartered
Professional Fellow of The BCS. He is also an advisor, investor and mentors
digital startups. By devoting time to assisting emerging businesses and small
investments to advance, Ian’s aim is to help grow the digital ecosystem.


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