it director management experience in comment and analysis
Tony Mather
CIO Profile Mather joined the FCO from industrial gases company BOC, where he was IM services director for four years. Brought into the civil service as part of the government's drive to tap private sector high flying talent, it is a bold move for Mather who... [11 Jun 2008]
Mars - The CIO training ground
Comment Jane Scott, IT director at food services group 3663 learnt her trade on the graduate management training scheme at Mars after studying Mathematics, and then moved into the fast-moving consumer goods sector with Coca-Cola, spending many years... [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]
Ian Cohen
CIO Profile He joined Associated Newspapers in November 2005 from the Financial Times where he was group IT director and a member of their main board, having originally been appointed as the CTO of FT.com in January 2001. [11 Jun 2008]
The McCue Interview: Ailsa Beaton, CIO, Metropolitan Police Service
Comment Patrolling the mean streets of London on a Friday evening isn't where you would usually find a CIO but then not many CIOs get to experience front line service in the way the Metropolitan Police Service's director of information management Ailsa... [02 Jun 2008]
Tiscali CEO: Bandwidth is key to fat pipe nation
Comment From there she moved on to become CEO of LineOne - and led the sale of the business to Tiscali in 2001 where she remained as managing director until her appointment as CEO. Research conducted by the Cranfield School of Management for Tiscali found... [21 Feb 2008]
Tech Visions: New media floods firms' networks
Comment James Robertson, director of Smalltalk applications at Cincom, actively publishes his groups' technical updates by blog, podcast, screencast and video. Laurie Heltsley, P&G Director of Strategic Projects, is responsible for various media-related... [19 Feb 2008]
Richard Rundle
CIO Profile Rundle has a wide range of experience in people management, engineering and logistics across the manufacturing, distribution and retail sectors and he has held a number of board-level and director positions during his career at Unigate, Wincanton... [06 Jun 2007]
John Thorp
CIO Profile Prior to DSG he was IT director at no-frills airline easyJet and before that he was group IS director at Compass Group and IT director at the Burton Group. Thorp has a wide variety of experience in senior management and IT roles, specialising for... [06 Jun 2007]
Will your next CIO be a non-techie?
Comment That means executive recruiters are looking in many cases beyond the IT director for the best CIO candidates. Once upon a time and not that long ago, a company's IT director was most likely a highly educated techie with a head full of complex... [18 Oct 2006]
Profile: CIO from the business
Comment Before that she was group director of IS procurement and logistics and MD for South East Europe at Novar, a building system conglomerate. In 1994 she moved to Mars as sales and marketing systems director. [18 Oct 2006]
Leader: The evolution of the CIO career path
Leader "I always wanted to be a paratrooper when I was kid - now I guess I am," said one leading IT director, Luke Mellors from Expotel, this week. All IT executives will fall into one of those categories based on whether they have predominantly worked... [22 Sep 2006]
Leader: The business has gone too far
Leader Surely an IT director brings more to a company as a permanent employee than as a temp - such as experience with the corporate culture and industry, and better relationships with the other workers, all of which make him or her more effective at the... [26 Jul 2006]
Breaking China: Tech trend-spotting in a burgeoning economy
Comment As Pacific Epoch's managing director, Brennan has a bird's-eye view of China's technology economy. But they have few skills in management - they just don't have much experience. In the long run it hasn't hurt anyone, though - the operators have... [18 Jul 2006]
Analysis: Can the public sector attract IT high-flyers?
Comment Ian Watmore left his position as UK managing director of Accenture to become the first government-wide CIO in 2004 and was last year promoted to his current permanent secretary role at the Cabinet Office as head of Blair's delivery unit. [20 Apr 2006]
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