Global Event 2023
Friday, June 2, 2023
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The Digital Revolution Awards celebrate the cloud industry’s very best pioneers, innovators and glass-ceiling breakers across categories that recognize sustainability, employer branding, ED&I, talent development, and L&D. We’ve put together an expert panel that represents some of tech’s leading figures, meaning they’re best placed to judge the individuals and organizations that have truly excelled in the last year.
Global Leader, AWS re/Start Program | AWS
EMEA Director of Talent Acquisition and Global TA Partner for Digital Infrastructure | Hitachi Vantara
Lynda has more than 20 years’ experience in the recruitment industry, having dedicated her career to executive search and talent acquisition leadership in the high tech space. She currently leads EMEA Talent Acquisition function at Hitachi Vantara, a global subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd that delivers intelligent data solutions and services, where her team has navigated significant change, growth and maturation, including the company expansion from a headcount of 3,500 to over 10,000 employees, numerous acquisitions, a merger with a sister company and a complete corporate rebrand. She is especially passionate about the Company’s “Powering Good” mission to help organizations innovate, create and deliver better value for society.
Senior Vice President, Worldwide Cloud Solution Alliances | Salesforce
An almost eight-year veteran of Salesforce, Don spent his first five years leading the buildout of Salesforce’s Global Partner Management teams and Partner Practice Development efforts. The last two plus years he has led the Global CSA teams and recently added the Global Partner Enablement team, where he has been overseeing the development of new curricula for Partner Learning Camp. He brings over 20 years of experience in managing Global Strategic Partner relationships and in monetizing strategic alliances across a variety of technology and platform solutions.
Stuart is working to build a movement for workforce development that puts diversity and equity at its heart. He loves solving the most complex of problems and building the greatest of teams. Imagine… if we could activate the potential of everyone. Stuart holds a MA in Aeronautical Engineering from Cambridge University and a MBA from London Business School.
Forbes Technology Council
Managing Director | Slalom
Annie Gardner is a Managing Director of UK consulting firm Slalom. She has vast leadership experience in the technology and services industry—with a uniquely purpose-driven approach. Her specialisms include senior executive coaching, business transformation, and governance.
Warren leads PwC’s Cloud & Digital Transformation Practice in the UK. His client work focuses on devising and executing strategies that: exploit digital and cloud technologies to build new business, accelerate speed to market, transform experiences, reduce cost and change how organizations work. Over the last few years he’s also helped businesses, including PwC, reposition and elevate the role of technology as a strategic source of new growth and competitive advantage. Prior to PwC, Warren spent 16 years working with many of the world’s leading telecoms, media, software and technology firms as a strategic advisor and technology partner.
Global Complete Care Category Lead | Hewlett Packard Enterprise
As well as her interest in inclusion and diversity as part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s DEI global team, Fiona leads category management for the best of breed service in the firm’s portfolio. Her role involves making sure that global sales across ten different regions are successful, having worked in many roles in her 20 years with the company previously. Prior responsibilities have been within services and consulting, including launching then leading her local business unit during critical datacentre building. A certified auditor for Six-Sigma and a continuous process improvement and process reengineering expert, Fiona has also served as Senior Consultant at PwC, and Process Improvement Manager at Lucent Technologies.
Vice President Global Talent Acquisition | Johnson Controls
Global EDI Strategy Lead | Tenth Revolution Group
Caroline Fox is the Global Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Strategy Lead at Tenth Revolution Group. Caroline joined the cloud talent solutions firm in 2013 as part of the Talent Acquisition team and now leads the company’s EDI program, bolstering an inclusive workspace and promoting best practice within the wider tech industry.
Senior Director; Global Head of Public Cloud Security Delivery | Rackspace Technology
Rob has a security, risk management and internal audit background and has held senior level and global head roles, notably at Bank of America and Citibank. At Rackspace, he has built a multi-million dollar EMEA security business from the ground up, covering security assurance and advisory, security solutioning and security operations. He has recently transitioned to a Global Head of Security Delivery role, supporting customers of all sizes, across all industry sectors, with their security needs.
Global Head of Executive Talent Acquisition | Uber
Roopesh is a veteran of the Talent Acquisition industry with over 20 years of experience, who currently leads the Global Executive Talent Acquisition teams for all Uber businesses worldwide.
Roopesh has worked with incredible leaders who have pushed and challenged him over his career working for amazing brands such as SAP, Workday, Expedia, and VMware. A magnified lens on inclusivity, fun, and data-driven strategies have been the common thread across all the impressive accomplishments that Roopesh has achieved throughout his career.
As Chief Technical Officer for Private Cloud at Rackspace, Simon’s goal is to deliver end value to customers through world-class hybrid cloud solutions and services.
He is focused on inspiring and supporting technical leaders to find best-fit solutions, combining a perfect blend of services and capabilities from the Rackspace Technology and partner portfolio. Simon enjoys working with customers at all levels to understand their challenges and identify opportunities to help them to succeed.
Simon’s extensive experience has been gained from working across a broad spectrum of customers in different industries. Before joining Rackspace Technology, he worked at IBM for over 20 years in leadership roles including Chief Architect for several global accounts and establishing a technical business development function for strategic deals in the UK.
Charity Trustee | Back Up
Jo spent most of her career at IBM, joining as a trainee salesperson. When she left she was an experienced corporate executive specializing in complex stakeholder management and relationships, and new business big-ticket-growth concept evaluation, from strategy to execution.
Jo acquired a Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) that left her a paraplegic and reliant on a wheelchair. For the last 7 years, she has been a trustee of the Back Up Trust which supports people affected by SCI by giving them the skills and confidence to lead a full life. She served as Chair of Trustees until last year, and in this time developed a particular interest in the application of technology across the public sector and using tech to make a difference.
Head of EMEA Professional Services Delivery | Rackspace Technology
Simon is responsible for Rackspace Technologies’ Professional Services Team in Europe, Middle East and Africa, where he has the privilege of leading a team of expert architects, engineers and consultants supporting the company’s customers on their journey to the public cloud. Simon has worked in IT for over 20 years, starting in interactive television and leading professional services and consulting teams for Accenture, EMC and Dell.
Technology Transformation Leader and ServiceNow Practice Leader | EY
Hernán Gabrieli is a management consultant with more than 28 years of worldwide experience in business transformation. Driven by a passion in technology and innovation, he takes pride in providing the best professional advice to his clients across different geographies. These include Italy, Argentina, Spain, France, Germany, Netherlands, Russia, USA and UK. As a Technology Transformation Leader he has delivered success stories to large corporations within the energy, banking, media, private equity and consumer products industries.
Director, Corporate Technology
Company | Barclays
Faith has worked in a variety of banking technology roles for the past 28 years, including 16 at NatWest/Royal Bank of Scotland and 12 at Barclays, where she is today. She started her career as a mainframe COBOL/DB2 developer and worked her way around a multitude of technology delivery roles within retail, transaction banking, risk, finance, digital channels, and corporate. Currently working as a Programme Director for a critical payments related programme, she’s also a London Co-Chair of Barclays Women in Technology, which aims to increase recruitment and retention of women in technology roles, and is a keen ally for all Diversity, Equity and Inclusion pillars.
Matt is a Managing Director in Accenture’s Salesforce Business Group and has been focused on Salesforce and the Salesforce ecosystem since 2008. During this time he has led multiple strategic initiatives and programs across functional capabilities, industries, and geographies. His current role sees him leading the Salesforce healthcare, life sciences and public sector industry segments globally, which includes responsibility for originating and delivering the firm’s most strategic offerings, accounts and programs.
Director | Digital Customer and New Business
Robert co-leads the Customer Transformation practice group within PwC’s Financial Services Transformation Team, and has around 10 years of consulting experience focusing on projects related to digitization of customer-centric products. Besides his in-depth knowledge in professional services for the retail banking and insurance segment, Robert also has a strong footprint in developing cross-industry business models.
Technology Impact Leader | PwC
Rob leads market activation for PwC’s cloud and digital transformation business in the UK. He is a leading voice in the field of AI and an evangelist for the responsible and ethical adoption of technology and its impact upon society. He’s a Visiting Fellow at Bayes Business School, and a founding board member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on AI. HR Magazine ranks him as an ‘HR Most Influential Thinker’, Onalytica cites him as a ‘Who’s Who in AI’, and he was voted ‘Tech Community Leader of the Year’ at CogX. He won Editor’s Choice at the TechWomen100 Awards and is a Male Agent of Change finalist at the Everywoman in Tech Awards in recognition of his championing of the women in tech agenda.
UK Division President | Maximus
Prior to his current position, Dr Paul Williams served as Managing Director and Programme Director for Centre for Health and Disability Assessments (CHDA), a division of Maximus. He graduated from Leeds Medical School in 1987 before becoming a full-time GP in 1992. In 2001, his interest in the impact of health on work, and of work upon health, led him to retrain as a specialist in Occupational Medicine. His extensive track record in high-profile clinical leadership roles includes the NHS, Forensic Medicine, Jaguar Land Rover, Local Government, the Police Force and JCB. Dr Williams recently stepped down from teaching postgraduate students in occupational medicine for Manchester University but continues to mentor future clinical service leaders within Maximus and the wider occupational medicine community.
Partner and Cloud Strategy Lead Consulting Practice | EY Canada
Imran is a veteran of the technology industry, with over 20 years’ experience in leadership positions in digital innovation and strategy. A specialist in identifying business expansion opportunities, he helps develop profit-generating strategies for key clients and stakeholders in industries that include financial services, health care and US government agencies, as well as transformation that leverages human-centered design principles. Imran has a storied commitment to fostering digital innovation, and is passionate about making technology easier for people to use.
Global Leader, AWS re/Start Program | AWS
EMEA Director of Talent Acquisition and Global TA Partner for Digital Infrastructure | Hitachi Vantara
Lynda has more than 20 years’ experience in the recruitment industry, having dedicated her career to executive search and talent acquisition leadership in the high tech space. She currently leads EMEA Talent Acquisition function at Hitachi Vantara, a global subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd that delivers intelligent data solutions and services, where her team has navigated significant change, growth and maturation, including the company expansion from a headcount of 3,500 to over 10,000 employees, numerous acquisitions, a merger with a sister company and a complete corporate rebrand. She is especially passionate about the Company’s “Powering Good” mission to help organizations innovate, create and deliver better value for society.
Senior Vice President, Worldwide Cloud Solution Alliances | Salesforce
An almost eight-year veteran of Salesforce, Don spent his first five years leading the buildout of Salesforce’s Global Partner Management teams and Partner Practice Development efforts. The last two plus years he has led the Global CSA teams and recently added the Global Partner Enablement team, where he has been overseeing the development of new curricula for Partner Learning Camp. He brings over 20 years of experience in managing Global Strategic Partner relationships and in monetizing strategic alliances across a variety of technology and platform solutions.
Stuart is working to build a movement for workforce development that puts diversity and equity at its heart. He loves solving the most complex of problems and building the greatest of teams. Imagine… if we could activate the potential of everyone. Stuart holds a MA in Aeronautical Engineering from Cambridge University and a MBA from London Business School.
Forbes Technology Council
Managing Director | Slalom
Annie Gardner is a Managing Director of UK consulting firm Slalom. She has vast leadership experience in the technology and services industry—with a uniquely purpose-driven approach. Her specialisms include senior executive coaching, business transformation, and governance.
Warren leads PwC’s Cloud & Digital Transformation Practice in the UK. His client work focuses on devising and executing strategies that: exploit digital and cloud technologies to build new business, accelerate speed to market, transform experiences, reduce cost and change how organizations work. Over the last few years he’s also helped businesses, including PwC, reposition and elevate the role of technology as a strategic source of new growth and competitive advantage. Prior to PwC, Warren spent 16 years working with many of the world’s leading telecoms, media, software and technology firms as a strategic advisor and technology partner.
Global Complete Care Category Lead | Hewlett Packard Enterprise
As well as her interest in inclusion and diversity as part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s DEI global team, Fiona leads category management for the best of breed service in the firm’s portfolio. Her role involves making sure that global sales across ten different regions are successful, having worked in many roles in her 20 years with the company previously. Prior responsibilities have been within services and consulting, including launching then leading her local business unit during critical datacentre building. A certified auditor for Six-Sigma and a continuous process improvement and process reengineering expert, Fiona has also served as Senior Consultant at PwC, and Process Improvement Manager at Lucent Technologies.
Vice President Global Talent Acquisition | Johnson Controls
Global EDI Strategy Lead | Tenth Revolution Group
Caroline Fox is the Global Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Strategy Lead at Tenth Revolution Group. Caroline joined the cloud talent solutions firm in 2013 as part of the Talent Acquisition team and now leads the company’s EDI program, bolstering an inclusive workspace and promoting best practice within the wider tech industry.
Senior Director; Global Head of Public Cloud Security Delivery | Rackspace Technology
Rob has a security, risk management and internal audit background and has held senior level and global head roles, notably at Bank of America and Citibank. At Rackspace, he has built a multi-million dollar EMEA security business from the ground up, covering security assurance and advisory, security solutioning and security operations. He has recently transitioned to a Global Head of Security Delivery role, supporting customers of all sizes, across all industry sectors, with their security needs.
Global Head of Executive Talent Acquisition | Uber
Roopesh is a veteran of the Talent Acquisition industry with over 20 years of experience, who currently leads the Global Executive Talent Acquisition teams for all Uber businesses worldwide.
Roopesh has worked with incredible leaders who have pushed and challenged him over his career working for amazing brands such as SAP, Workday, Expedia, and VMware. A magnified lens on inclusivity, fun, and data-driven strategies have been the common thread across all the impressive accomplishments that Roopesh has achieved throughout his career.
As Chief Technical Officer for Private Cloud at Rackspace, Simon’s goal is to deliver end value to customers through world-class hybrid cloud solutions and services.
He is focused on inspiring and supporting technical leaders to find best-fit solutions, combining a perfect blend of services and capabilities from the Rackspace Technology and partner portfolio. Simon enjoys working with customers at all levels to understand their challenges and identify opportunities to help them to succeed.
Simon’s extensive experience has been gained from working across a broad spectrum of customers in different industries. Before joining Rackspace Technology, he worked at IBM for over 20 years in leadership roles including Chief Architect for several global accounts and establishing a technical business development function for strategic deals in the UK.
Charity Trustee | Back Up
Jo spent most of her career at IBM, joining as a trainee salesperson. When she left she was an experienced corporate executive specializing in complex stakeholder management and relationships, and new business big-ticket-growth concept evaluation, from strategy to execution.
Jo acquired a Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) that left her a paraplegic and reliant on a wheelchair. For the last 7 years, she has been a trustee of the Back Up Trust which supports people affected by SCI by giving them the skills and confidence to lead a full life. She served as Chair of Trustees until last year, and in this time developed a particular interest in the application of technology across the public sector and using tech to make a difference.
Head of EMEA Professional Services Delivery | Rackspace Technology
Simon is responsible for Rackspace Technologies’ Professional Services Team in Europe, Middle East and Africa, where he has the privilege of leading a team of expert architects, engineers and consultants supporting the company’s customers on their journey to the public cloud. Simon has worked in IT for over 20 years, starting in interactive television and leading professional services and consulting teams for Accenture, EMC and Dell.
Technology Transformation Leader and ServiceNow Practice Leader | EY
Hernán Gabrieli is a management consultant with more than 28 years of worldwide experience in business transformation. Driven by a passion in technology and innovation, he takes pride in providing the best professional advice to his clients across different geographies. These include Italy, Argentina, Spain, France, Germany, Netherlands, Russia, USA and UK. As a Technology Transformation Leader he has delivered success stories to large corporations within the energy, banking, media, private equity and consumer products industries.
Director, Corporate Technology
Company | Barclays
Faith has worked in a variety of banking technology roles for the past 28 years, including 16 at NatWest/Royal Bank of Scotland and 12 at Barclays, where she is today. She started her career as a mainframe COBOL/DB2 developer and worked her way around a multitude of technology delivery roles within retail, transaction banking, risk, finance, digital channels, and corporate. Currently working as a Programme Director for a critical payments related programme, she’s also a London Co-Chair of Barclays Women in Technology, which aims to increase recruitment and retention of women in technology roles, and is a keen ally for all Diversity, Equity and Inclusion pillars.
Matt is a Managing Director in Accenture’s Salesforce Business Group and has been focused on Salesforce and the Salesforce ecosystem since 2008. During this time he has led multiple strategic initiatives and programs across functional capabilities, industries, and geographies. His current role sees him leading the Salesforce healthcare, life sciences and public sector industry segments globally, which includes responsibility for originating and delivering the firm’s most strategic offerings, accounts and programs.
Director | Digital Customer and New Business
Robert co-leads the Customer Transformation practice group within PwC’s Financial Services Transformation Team, and has around 10 years of consulting experience focusing on projects related to digitization of customer-centric products. Besides his in-depth knowledge in professional services for the retail banking and insurance segment, Robert also has a strong footprint in developing cross-industry business models.
Technology Impact Leader | PwC
Rob leads market activation for PwC’s cloud and digital transformation business in the UK. He is a leading voice in the field of AI and an evangelist for the responsible and ethical adoption of technology and its impact upon society. He’s a Visiting Fellow at Bayes Business School, and a founding board member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on AI. HR Magazine ranks him as an ‘HR Most Influential Thinker’, Onalytica cites him as a ‘Who’s Who in AI’, and he was voted ‘Tech Community Leader of the Year’ at CogX. He won Editor’s Choice at the TechWomen100 Awards and is a Male Agent of Change finalist at the Everywoman in Tech Awards in recognition of his championing of the women in tech agenda.
UK Division President | Maximus
Prior to his current position, Dr Paul Williams served as Managing Director and Programme Director for Centre for Health and Disability Assessments (CHDA), a division of Maximus. He graduated from Leeds Medical School in 1987 before becoming a full-time GP in 1992. In 2001, his interest in the impact of health on work, and of work upon health, led him to retrain as a specialist in Occupational Medicine. His extensive track record in high-profile clinical leadership roles includes the NHS, Forensic Medicine, Jaguar Land Rover, Local Government, the Police Force and JCB. Dr Williams recently stepped down from teaching postgraduate students in occupational medicine for Manchester University but continues to mentor future clinical service leaders within Maximus and the wider occupational medicine community.
Partner and Cloud Strategy Lead Consulting Practice | EY Canada
Imran is a veteran of the technology industry, with over 20 years’ experience in leadership positions in digital innovation and strategy. A specialist in identifying business expansion opportunities, he helps develop profit-generating strategies for key clients and stakeholders in industries that include financial services, health care and US government agencies, as well as transformation that leverages human-centered design principles. Imran has a storied commitment to fostering digital innovation, and is passionate about making technology easier for people to use.
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