Ian Campbell

As Chairman of The Corporate IT Forum, Ian represents IT professionals working in over 150 large blue-chip organisations across the world. The Forum’s aim is to facilitate the sharing of best practice and IT expertise between its corporate members and to represent their interests to the supplier community and to Government. Collectively, the Forum’s members spend in excess of £35bn on IT each year.

In Ian’s last corporate role, Group CIO for British Energy, he led a major, two-year business change management programme to improve operational efficiencies and align the IT function with business. Prior to this, Ian was on the Board of Energis (now Cable and Wireless) as Group CIO where he drove business growth of internet services and telecoms. Before Energis, Ian worked for Citibank (within Citigroup) developing financial services products for the global corporate and retail market. He has also worked as a management consultant for PA Consulting and is a graduate of the London School of Economics.

Kevin Mercer

Head of IT Services & Support, BAA Ltd. Kevin has worked within the IT industry for over 25 years and has a wealth
of experience having worked in strategic, architectural, project and
operational roles. He is currently fulfilling the role of IT Sourcing
Programme Director which includes accountability for the delivery of IT
services & support to all BAA UK airports and subsidiaries.

Jon Stephenson

The Group Technology Manager for Bakkavor Foods Limited, one of the worlds largest fresh food manufacturers. Prior to Bakkavor Jon managed IT teams within Thomas Cook Financial Services and the Barclays Group. Prior to that, he worked for a number of commercial vendors and specialist software houses.

Ian Shaw

Chief Insurance Systems Officer, BUPA. Ian has worked in IT for 26 years. He has experience in IT development and Operations and is currently in Relationship Management as Chief Insurance Systems Officer at Bupa. Ian has been a Forum Board Member for 5 years.

Jos is the Head of IT for Hampshire County Council, running their IT group, supporting business change programmes and delivering services to many other public services organisations on a business basis. With over 20 years IT management experience, Jos is also vice president of the Society of IT Management, chairs the Insight research programme board, chairs the Local Government CIO Council and is on the National Government CIO Council representing local government.

Head of Development Support and Network Infrastructure at John Lewis Partnership and tif. Vice-Chairman from early 2007

Has worked in the IT group within John Lewis for over 30 years, initially in infrastructure development and support functions and, since the early 1990s managed the Technical Services teams moving to become responsible for shared IT services teams (including Security, Procurement and Project Office) and the Network development and implementation groups in 2001.

Member of the tif. management boards since 1999 and has chaired the tif. Operational and/or Services boards through most of that time. Member of the judging panel for the tif. awards in 2003 & 2004.

David started his career in operational logistics roles, before taking up project & programme management positions which progressed him into IT leadership. He has held CIO level responsibilities in consumer goods, construction & utilities businesses delivering change in performance & capability of the function. David has recently taken up the position of Group IT Director with British Car Auctions, Europe’s number one vehicle remarketing business.

Ross Taylor

Managing Director, E.ON IS UK Ltd Ross is responsible for the service company E.ON IS UK Limited, providing customer satisfaction through delivering shared IT infrastructure and application services.

Ross joined the E.ON group in 1996 and has held a number of IT leadership roles across the company. Prior to joining the group Ross worked with the health service after graduating with a BSc in Physics from Bristol University.

Jonathan Mitchell

Director Business Process Improvement & CIO, Rolls-Royce plc. Jonathan joined Rolls-Royce in January 2003 as Director of Business Process Improvement, with responsibility for Rolls-Royce process improvement initiatives, the Quality function and also Information Technology. He is currently overseeing initiatives in Rolls-Royce to overhaul and rationalise the Enterprise Resource Planning environment into a single, consistent set of global processes.

Jonathan spent 13 years at Glaxo, primariily in IT Roles and prior to that worked for BP Exploration, mainly as an applications project manager delivering geological computing systems to aid oil exploration. He is also a past Chairman and current Board member of the UK Corporate IT Forum and a Board Director of the UK Council for Electronic Business.

Jane Seeley FISM

DHL Logistics Strategy & Planning Director. Jane’s career has spanned over 20years working in IT with exposure to a number of technical refreshes, and has an overall understanding of the IT lifecycle from strategic alignment, concept design, product and knowledge management, application and operational management. Jane is a Fellow of the Institute of IT Service Management and an active member of both itSMF and The Corporate IT Forum, sitting on a number of management boards. In 2003, she was personally voted itSMF Service Manager of the Year and Exel won itSMF Innovation of the Year award for their IT Service Management Programme - Olympus of which she led.

John Harris

VP Corporate Finance IT - GlaxoSmithKline- John leads a global IT organisation providing IT services to support Glaxo SmithKline’s finance functions including Treasury, Financial Reporting, Global Internal Audit, Sarbanes Oxley compliance, Shared Financial Services and WorldWide Real Estate. John has established strong business partnerships and successfully embedded a service culture based on the ITIL methodology.

He and his team have extensive experience in working with offshore IT and business partners driving cost savings and delivering a tangible improvement in service quality. John has also held senior IT roles in GSK’s international business and headed the Connectivity infrastructure service where he was responsible for global deployment of collaboration tools, transforming the way that GSK did business across 100,000 employees and numerous external business partners.

Malcolm Carrie

Head of Strategy & Architecture at BAE Systems plc a global defence and aerospace company. He has many years experience of IT in engineering companies - manufacturing, power generation, petro-chemical and defence. Malcolm lived in The Netherlands for ten years when his role included responsibility for IT operations across several European countries.

Frank Smith

The Group IT Director for Travis Perkins has over 30 years experience in IT. The earlier part of his career was spent in roles within the systems development function, mainly in retailing. Since 1990 he has been responsible for IT across the Travis Perkins group. Over these 18 years, the group has expanded from 160 to a current total of more than 1200 outlets and is now one of the largest distributors of building materials in the UK. In addition to its builders' merchanting operations, which trade under 5 brands, the group includes the Wickes and Tile Giant retail chains.

Denise Plumpton

Director of information for the Highways Agency, with a £60m annual budget. She spent two years as CIO at the courier service company TNT, preceded by a three year spell as IT chief at Powergen. Denise is also a non-executive Director of the Heart of Birmingham Primary Care Trust and is a member of the Strategy Board of IT user group The Corporate IT Forum (Tif).
Denise has spent much of her career in the private sector and latterly joined the Highways Agency, part of the Department for Transport as Director of Information, providing real time traffic information to the public and the media in addition to internal ICT services.  She has a passion for change management and delights in delivering significant business benefits as a result.  She has worked extensively at Board level and recognises the importance of building business confidence and securing the commitment of staff to make change happen.