James Gupwell Email Address

Global Hybrid Cloud Delivery Lead

Protecting you and your business against the unique risks you face. We are one of the largest corporate and SME insurance brokers in the UK

I have over 27 years of broad IT experience. Experience of many different industry sectors (Energy, Pharmaceuticals, Finance services, Retail, FMCG, Insurance). 15 years of working with & managing international teams (both US & EMEA based). For most of my career (26 years) I have worked in permanent positions, but I have now decided to move into the world of interim management.I am a highly skilled, motivated and experienced IT Leader with a track record of defining strategic imperatives, and developing and driving teams to deliver against that strategy. Have led large programme implementations and worked as part of core IT leadership teams during five IT transformation programmes. Track record of driving cost efficiency and service levels on an ongoing basis. Highly attuned strategic vendor relationship skills, with experience of all types of sourcing.I bring a broad knowledge of the outsourcing marketplace to any company, along with real world experience of delivering both outsourced & insourced service solutions.In addition, I have an acute ability to manage budgets and to demonstrate like for like budget reductions, while at the same time improving services and service levels.Specialties: Cloud, IT Operations, Service strategy & design, Programme & Project Management, Application Management, Service Delivery & operations, Infrastructure Management, Security Management, Sourcing models, Infrastructure transformations (Network, Data Centre, Cloud).