Derek Wilde Email Address

Information Technology Strategy Programme Leader

Southern Water is a Public utility company in Worthing, West Sussex.

I provide leadership for IT strategy, transformation and performance improvement programmes. Currently at NEOM Company, recent UK FTSE100 clients include Rolls-Royce and Imperial Brands, with significant prior experience gained in Smiths Group, British Energy, EDF Energy, SABMiller, Allied Domecq, British American Tobacco and Volvo Car Corporation. A seasoned, commercially astute IT executive with global expertise, with an extensive track record in shaping, driving and delivering initiatives that deliver significant business value and performance improvement in blue chip businesses. My career experience encompasses executive leadership, strategy development, rightsizing and redesign of operating models, portfolio rationalisation and cost reduction, as well as strategic business and technology change programmes, almost exclusively in global business contexts. My success stems from my proven ability to shape and deliver compelling value propositions, recruit and lead high performing teams, and successfully drive strategic initiatives through corporate governance, organisational and commercial processes. Not least, I am adept at gaining the support and trust of c-suite and other executive stakeholders, and securing their buy-in.