Ian Tur Frey Email Address

Chief Information Officer

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CIO100 2015 (58) and UKIT awards CIO of the year finalist, commercially astute IT business executive who applies market changes to deliver the right business outcomes. Proven versatile IT background constantly adapts business change into new opportunities. Not only develops strategies but see's them through and delivers transformational programmes ranging from delivering modern IT infrastructures including cloud to new products and services focused on business applications, data and integration/ He delivers operational efficiency and realises real financial savings whilst improving productivity. His success comes from delivering and developing a brand, vision and strategy that has proven highly inspirational and motivating to colleagues. Having that helicopter view, can seamlessly break down major programmes into manageable deliverables. Ian has chaired and enacted governance boards, built business cases and delivered extensive change management programmes. Ian has significant experience used to operating at C level with extensive negotiating skills. Finally if you are looking for a person that can – Ian always delivers! Recent highlights include 2012 : CIO Connect magazine article 2014 : Key note speaker Microsoft EduNext conference and computer weekly 2014 : World Cloud Forum http://cloudwf.com/speaker/ian-turfrey/ 2014 : Achieved CIO100 award http://www.cio.co.uk/cio100/2014/city-guilds/ 2014 : Winner of Best Hosted Solution http://www.realwire.com/releases/Azzurri-Wins-Best-Enterprise-Hosted-Solution-At-The-Comms-National-Awards 2015 : Key Note Speaker at Azzuri Conference & promotional video http://www.azzurricommunications.com/resources/videos/case-study-city-and-guilds 2015 : Guest Speaker at Computer Weekly http://news-me.com/2015/04/01/is-it-time-to-jump-off-the-windows-bandwagon/ Coming Up 2015 : World Cloud Forum : Guest Speaker