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Gordon Lovell-Read
CIO Profile Although he started out his career at ICL in software engineering, Lovell-Read has risen to the role of CIO without going through the traditional IT department route and he spent 17 years at HP in a number of senior management posts, rising to... [11 Jun 2008]
Mars - The CIO training ground
Comment The Mars name also features heavily on the CVs of many of the CIOs on this year's silicon.com CIO50 list, including winner Robin Dargue, group CIO and technology director at the Royal Mail - though he joined not as a graduate but later in his... [11 Jun 2008]
The CIO's route to the top
Comment Ailsa Beaton - director of information management at the Metropolitan Police Service where she manages the force's IT strategy and £300m tech budget - actually studied chemistry, then opted for a career in accountancy before being lured into the... [11 Jun 2008]
Female CIOs break through glass ceiling
Comment Highest ranked on the list, at number four, is Catherine Doran, director of information management at Network Rail, where she is responsible for an IT budget of almost £140m and defining and building the strategic IT direction for the organisation. [11 Jun 2008]
Who voted on the CIO50?
Comment He previously worked as a director at Harvey Nash and played a key role in growing the business and taking it public. David Weymouth, group director, IT and operations, Royal & SunAlliance The silicon.com CIO50 2008 list was compiled using the... [11 Jun 2008]
Mike Wright
CIO Profile Before joining Man, Wright was managing director for systems at Fidelity International and for eight years before that was group IT director at the Willis Group. He also founded and ran a software products company for four years, and was also a non... [11 Jun 2008]
Neil Cameron
CIO Profile In 1999 Cameron became global IS director at Guinness and was appointed CIO for Diageo the following year. At Unilever Neil Cameron is responsible for a 4,000-strong global IT department responsible for 85,000 desktops and an annual IT budget of... [11 Jun 2008]
Michel Khan
CIO Profile Before joining Specsavers, he was IT director at duty free retailer Allders International. Michel Khan has headed up the IT of this eye-care retailer for the last 12 years. In that time, he has won accolades for the company's supply chain and... [11 Jun 2008]
Gary Arthurs
CIO Profile Arthurs started out as an IT analyst at Beecham Group, then worked his way up the IT career ladder at Safeway over a period of 14 years, moving from an IT project manager role to director of IT programme management, and finally director of IT... [11 Jun 2008]
Ben Wishart
CIO Profile For the last four years as change and information director of Whitbread, Ben Wishart has embraced a shared service operation that focuses on simple business processes and improved service across the company's brands, which include Beefeater... [11 Jun 2008]
Trevor Didcock
CIO Profile Previous to that, Didcock was group IT Director at the RAC for four years, head of IT at Mars Confectionery for three and in IS roles across disciplines in Mars and JP Morgan before that. Before arriving at Homeserve, Trevor Didcock was CIO at the... [11 Jun 2008]
Robin Dargue
CIO Profile For Robin Dargue the next challenge was Royal Mail, who he joined as group CIO and technology director at the end of 2007, replacing the retiring David Burden. He moved on to become IS director at UDV, which later became part of Guinness and then... [11 Jun 2008]
Simon Post
CIO Profile Prior to The Carphone Warehouse, Post made his name at Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB as group IT and strategy director, where he was responsible for a complete organisational and process transformation and an update to much of the core IT infrastructure. [11 Jun 2008]
Richard Steel
CIO Profile Coming from the merchant banking world - with a stint as an assistant director of Morgan Grenfell (now Deutsche Bank) - Steel has been working in public sector IT for nearly 20 years. Richard Steel has been with Newham Borough Council since 1989... [11 Jun 2008]
Kevin Berry
CIO Profile As systems director of Waitrose, Kevin Berry is responsible for all IT and telecommunication systems used throughout the supermarket chain. He climbed through the ranks, working as the partnership's chief analyst, head of department store systems... [11 Jun 2008]
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