Jerry Fishenden is working with several organisations on the effective use of IT. Previous roles include: chief technology officer for Microsoft; head of networking at the UK Houses of Parliament; head of business systems at the city financial regulator; and director of IT in the NHS.

He holds a variety of non-executive and executive director appointments, including as a co-founder and director of the Centre for Technology Policy Research and a Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics.

Jerry is a regular contributor to a variety of media, and often appears as a guest and keynote speaker in both the UK and abroad, drawing on his senior professional experience spanning private and public sectors.

Key skills include:

• Board level operator
• Strategic alignment of IT with business
• Management of large teams and budgets (including major organisational re-structuring)
• Delivery of large scale / complex systems
• Product development
• Business and technology leadership
• Business, information and enterprise technical architecture design
• Business transformation and change management
• Detailed technical expertise across a range of technologies
• Technical and operational audit and re-design
• Employee, partner, vendor and contractor management
• Media and communication skills (including live radio and TV)
• Mentoring of board-level executives

Jerry is a Fellow with Chartered status of the British Computer Society (FBCS CITP), a Fellow of the Institute for the Management of Information Systems (FIMIS), a Fellow of the Institution of Analysts and Programmers (FIAP) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). He is also a professional writer and composer. Outside of his IT career, Jerry is a professional member of the Writers Guild of Great Britain, a successful radio playwright, author and freelance journalist.