Paul is a senior Information Management executive in the Pharmaceutical and Consumer healthcare industry with more than 25 years international experience in IT strategy, Business Partnering, Vendor management, application development & solution delivery, Operations and Commercial Analytics. He has led key Digital Transformation initiatives at GSK as well as IT and Business Strategy integration programs at GSK, Novartis and Johnson and Johnson.

Currently Paul is working with GSK and he is responsible for a Global Business Simplification program for the Consumer Health markets in EMEA, APAC and Americas , reporting to the office of CEO.

Former SVP & CIO GSK Consumer Healthcare, Graham has an extensive history of executive level leadership and contribution gained as CIO across the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer, Pharmaceuticals and R&D businesses. He possesses much sought after insight into the Commercial/Retail, Supply Chain and R&D processes and technologies. Graham has been leading global IT teams for the past 25 years, spearheading a number of organisational transformations, Digital Programmes and M&A activities. Graham is currently leveraging his knowledge to assess, advise and assist a number of aspirational organizations on their transformational journeys.

Former Vice President Enterprise Services, HP. Martin has over 30 years’ experience in IT. He began his career as a seller at ICL and IBM where he was one of the early leaders within the then emerging outsourcing business. After spells as a director at smaller software and services businesses, Martin joined HP. Martin was on the UK board at HP for 10 years. For 5 years leading the whole UK sales organisation of over 700 people, and more latterly leading the services organisation for UK, Middle East and Africa. Martin now has a more portfolio based career, combining chairman/non exec work with training and consultancy. He is actively involved in investing and helping start up’s and smaller tech companies.

An executive with a unique blend of strategic, commercial, finance, IT and transformation experience in telecommunications, pensions and the third sector. Anthony is an expert in C-Suite communications and stakeholder management.

Chair of Trustees at Demand, a charity for the disabled that removes barriers to inclusion, participation and independence | Chairman (elect) of the Telefonica UK (O2) Pension Trustee | Associate and coach at Executive Change Group | Director of Sarratt Village CIC | Vice-Chairman, Sarratt Parish Council.

Former Director, Telefonica UK (O2) and Non-Exec (previous Chairman) of the Tesco Mobile Board Audit Committee.

A highly experienced CIO, who has worked at Board level in Manufacturing, Financial Services and Public Sector Law Enforcement. Business-focused technology leadership allied to excellent people management skills. Managed Global teams. Worked in France and the US. External Board-level experience at Non-Executive level and also in an advisory capacity. More than 30 years experience in IT delivery and Business Change Management.

Previous roles include CIO Metropolitan Police and CIO UBS Global Asset Management.

Gary is an IT leader with over 25 years experience in industry including retail, manufacturing, health and services. As IT Director at the National Blood Service (NBS) he led the successful implementation of the award winning Pulse programme which created a single system for managing the blood supply in England, from donor to hospital. After leaving the NBS he joined Welcome Break, the Motorway Services provider, completely refreshing and replacing the business systems. He then went on to lead the IT team at Sodexo UK & Ireland running a variety of systems over 2000 sites. He started to work for WM Morrisons in 2006, as IT Director where he was key to the launching and leading of the Evolve programme, one of Europe's largest retail ITtransformations. After leaving WM Morrisons he joined Dixons Group the electrical retailer as Group IT Director. In 2014 he decided that after 25 years in operational IT management it was time for a change and is pursuing a consulting and a non-executive career. He has also served as a Governor at Bedfordshire University, is a Governor of the Lantern School Ely, is the Honorary Secretary at Cambridge Rugby Club and has sat on several industry advisory boards.

Miles is a Chief Information Officer with in-depth experience creating and executing business focused information technology strategies to build, grow, and transform global music and entertainment companies. He has had significant achievements leading IT innovation, technology integrations, and digital initiatives to support major business change cycles. As a leader, Miles has a legacy of developing positive organizational culture, hiring and retaining large teams, and driving change across organizations. Most recently as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Sony Music Entertainment, Previous roles include Vice President IS&T, BMG North America, Senior Director at EMI music.

Paul Burfitt has been an Associate Director and Stakeholder in Executive Change Group since 2006. He is also an independent consultant to top FTSE 100, and equivalent, level organisations.

His work focuses on developing high performing senior IT Leaders, and improving the value of relationships between C-level customers and major IT Vendors. He chairs IT Vendor/CIO Advisory boards, is an executive coach and mentor to senior business and IS leaders, and conducts research into Strategic IT issues.

He is a visiting lecturer at Cranfield University School of Management and at the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin.

Prior to his independent working life, he was the Global CIO of AstraZeneca where he was appointed at the merger of the two previous companies in 1999. He led the creation of the new merged IS organisation comprising 4000 staff worldwide, the delivery of the IS synergies (> $150m) and the implementation of new systems to support the new company’s re-engineered global processes. His work covered all aspects of IS value delivery, ranging from strategies and performance to major outsourcing and Leadership development.

He has been an active member of many leading advisory/steering boards including the Research Board (Global), the Euro CIO (Europe) and the CISR research organisation at MIT.

Throughout his varied career of over 30 years in business , he has also held senior positions in manufacturing, logistics, and commercial; has been an adviser to a VC company, and led the sale of a software business.

Dean is leading media Business Development for Accenture and was one one of the San Francisco Bay Area Partners at Altus Alliance, an International Revenue Growth Services firm specializing in accelerating business growth with both large and early stage technology companies – with offices in US and Europe. He is also the CEO and President of Parachute Systems, which provides automated & customized location-aware solutions for active monitoring and communication of personnel both in times of normal business as well as during emergencies.

Dean is an experienced CEO and board member in addition to previous experiences including President, CIO and CTO of high growth companies. He has turned around businesses to achieve profitability through fund raising, internal company management processes and strong customer, investor and media relationships