Consumer tech and regulation

Brian Edwards

Senior Manager, Technology Strategy, Sony 

Heather Xiao

Founder and CEO, Horizon Zero

Company HQ location: London

Professor Jason Crain

Senior Research Manager , IBM

Professor Jason Crain is a Senior Research Manager at IBM and Visiting Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford. He has published over 200 papers on emerging computational technologies and their applications, with pioneering work at the intersection of quantum computing, AI, and molecular simulation. At IBM, he established and led the UK quantum research team, delivering the country’s first utility-scale quantum experiments and co-developing foundational AI tools for drug discovery. He currently serves as UK quantum lead at the Hartree National Centre for Digital Innovation, shaping public-private investment to advance national capability in emerging technologies. Previously, as Director of Research at the National Physical Laboratory, he restructured the UK’s measurement science portfolio and launched enduring national programmes. His career reflects deep technical insight and strategic leadership in translating frontier science into transformative innovation.

Victoria Knight

Strategy and Operations Director National Security and Government, BAE Systems

Jayesh Patel

Managing Director, Escode

Stewart Randall

VP, Deputy MD China & Taiwan - Head of Electronics, Intralink

Steve Rackham

CTO for Financial Services, NetApp

I began my career in technology working for Sequent Computers, spending time at Intel and StorageTek. Joining NetApp in 2016, I have spent over 18 years focusing on the Financial Services Industry working with accounts across the vertical including heading up a Global pre-sales team for a large, multi-national bank before moving to my current CTO role.

Tim Ward

CEO & Co-founder, Redflags

Tim is CEO and Co-Founder (with Dr Mike Butler) of Think Cyber Security Ltd. ThinkCyber offer the next generation in Security Awareness. Their Redflags™ software product applies behavioural and learning science theory, in a highly innovative approach to deliver context-sensitive just-in-time guidance.

Sian Roberts

Executive Director – Democracy, Civica

Chris Hulm

Senior Director - Europe Government Engagement, Visa

Chris leads Visa’s public affairs team in the UK and Ireland. Previously, Chris was based at Visa’s Global HQ in San Francisco as a Director in the Global Policy team.

Peter Fleming

Former Leader, Sevenoaks District Council

Rajal Patni

Co-founder & Director, Lavanya Plus Limited (WeMa)

Biography

Rajal Patni

Co-founder/Trustee/Mentor/Angel Investor

An experienced finance director and business strategist, I’ve driven financial, commercial, and corporate success across digital payments and B2B outsourcing, e-commerce industries. 

Most recently, I've embraced the vital role of a working carer and proudly co-founded and lead 2 innovative digital CareTech ventures - WeMa.ai (digital-first working carer platform) and Mawii Home Care enabling graceful and confident aging within a united community.

My commitment to improving health and social care ecosystems centres on four key pillars:

• Empowering communities: deliver digital literacy programmes enabling , equipping individuals to confidently self-manage their care.
• Advocating inclusivity: amplify community voices, promoting health and cultural equity within solutions rooted in civility and trust.
• Building trust-based relationships: foster growth by unifying knowledge, experience and skills across communities and partnerships, to deliver exceptional digital outcomes.
• Advancing digital CareTech innovation: simplifying navigation, access, choice and payment of quality care services ensuring citizens receive the best possible care.

Please watch the video to learn what they can bring to the Health and Social Care Council and how they can contribute to techUK’s work in health and social care.

Richard Clarke

Company Director, Fivium

Company location: London

leon Ifayemi

Director of Coalitions and Research, CFIT 

Mhairi Mival

Partner, Technology, Media and Telecommunications practice at Pinsent Masons

Mhairi Mival is a Partner in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications practice at Pinsent Masons, with extensive experience advising businesses on their adoption of complex and emerging technologies. Her work focuses on large-scale digital transformation projects, IT sourcing and technology-enabled change, helping organisations deploy cloud, platforms and data-driven solutions in a way that supports innovation, resilience and regulatory compliance. 

Caroline Norbury OBE

Chief Executive, Creative UK

Caroline Norbury OBE is the Chief Executive of Creative UK, the independent network for the UK’s Cultural and Creative Industries working to support and invest in creative talent and businesses, and unite the UK’s creative industries.

Caroline sits on the Creative Industries Council and co-chairs the Investment for Growth sub-group of the Council. She is a non-executive director of Crowdfunder, the UK’s largest rewards-based crowdfunding platform; a member of BAFTA and the Royal Society of Arts and a trustee for the PRS Foundation, a charity supporting new music and talent. Caroline is also Chairwoman of The Music Works, a charity in Gloucestershire changing the lives of young people through music. She was awarded an MBE in 2012 for services to the film industry, and has recently been awarded an OBE at The Queen’s Birthday Honours 2022 for her leadership and advocacy in shaping the creative sector’s response to the Covid-19 pandemi

Nick Evans

Chief Operating Officer, Lockular Limited

Nick Evans is the COO of Lockular Ltd, a company dedicated to digital privacy and securing the public cloud so we can all benefit from the undoubted economic and social benefits of a digital economy.

Paul Vingoe

Co-Founder, VinDo Technology

Robert Price

Programme Manager, Transport and Mobility, techUK

Robert joined techUK in January 2025 as our Programme Manager for Transport and Mobility.

Stephen Knibbs

Head of VBSE (Vodafone Business Security Enhanced), Vodafone UK

Naomi Bolton

Telent

Simon Wilyman

Managing Director, Intel UK & Northern Europe

With 25+ years of experience in the semiconductor and tech industry Simon is a strategic leader operating at the leading edge of technology innovation. His mission is to enable customers and partners success and to continually develop highly skilled and performing organizations.

David Brown

Managing Director, CLEO Systems

Company location: Ashford, Kent

Ellie Huckle

Programme Manager, Central Government, techUK

Ellie joined techUK in March 2018 as a Programme Assistant to the Public Sector team and now works as a Programme Manager for the Central Government Programme.

Dr Peter Couch

Chief Executive Officer, JRC

Dr Peter D Couch is Chief Executive Officer at Joint Radio Company working with the Energy Network Operators to establish the optimum regulatory regime to facilitate the Smart Grid future. An innovative, highly driven strategic thinker with 20+ years’ experience of enhancing enterprise value in regulated businesses within the Energy, Technology, Media and Telecommunications sectors.  

Anthony Levy

Founder & Chairman, Circularity First

Anthony Levy is the CEO and Founder of Circularity First (www.circularity-first.com) and Cistor (www.cistor.com), leaders in Sustainable IT, proving that beyond being the right thing to do for people and the planet, sustainability can also drive business value.

Kumar Singarajah

Director, Euroma

Cluster 4 Chair Kumar Singarajah is a Member of the IET & IEEE and a Fellow of the CMI. He is currently a Director of Euroma Ltd. 

Frédéric Kretzer

Head of Product, Weblib

Maggie Scott

CEO, Principle One

Maggie Scott is CEO of Principle One, a specialist consultancy operating across a growing portfolio of public sector customers. Launched in 2018 with a strong focus on UK Law Enforcement, Principle One’s team has grown to over 80 consultants, offering a broad range of skillsets to its customer base from business strategy and change through systems engineering and technical architecture into software delivery. With over thirty years consulting experience, Maggie is a passionate advocate for diversity in the workplace and has championed a range of initiatives to promote skills development and diversity within Principle One over the last five years. This has included diversifying recruitment and working to create entry level roles open to applicants from a diverse backgrounds.

Matt Johnson

Head of Public Sector, CDS

Steve Elliott

Managing Director, Business Services UK & Ireland, LexisNexis® Risk Solutions

Steve has experience across a very broad range of industry sectors including Global CSO at the world’s largest trade inspection, testing firm and certification firm, a Board Advisor on a £4bn Global Security Fund, a range of Operational and Financial Crime (MLRO) roles at Insurance, Wealth and Investment PLCs and spending several years leading HQ Fraud/AML investigations in the Royal Hong Kong Police.

Jaroszlav Katai

Business Development Manager, techUK

Jaroszlav is the Business Development Manager at techUK. 

Kayleigh Marquis

Customer Success Manager , Signable

Richard Dickins

MD , Social Value Business

Evelyn Woodland

Marketing Manager, GovNet

Sophie Newbould

Founder and CEO, innov8law

Company HQ location: Brentwood, Essex

Julie Dawson

Chief Policy & Regulatory Officer, Yoti

Julie is known internationally for driving the ethical framework development at Yoti digital identity platform. Julie leads regulatory and government relations for Yoti digital identity platform; developing policy approaches for fraud prevention and safeguarding, liaising with national and sectoral trust frameworks, in conjunction with Yoti's internal and external ethics boards.

Peter Ferguson

Director, Connected Health, Intelligent Industry, Capgemini

Philip Lindstedt

Deployment Strategist, Palantir Technologies

Philip Lindstedt is a deployment strategist at Palantir Technologies where he leads technology development and delivery across healthcare and life sciences. His various roles at Palantir include as a regional lead for the NHS’s Federated Data Platform (FDP) programme, establishing himself as the technical assurance lead for clinical safety and information governance for the entire FDP programme, and heading Palantir UK’s work with the NHS Genomics Medicine Service and the Institute for Cancer Research. Before joining Palantir, Philip earned a PhD and an MPhil in Chemical Biology from the University of Cambridge, where he published several highly cited papers on protein folding and bio-orthogonal chemistry under the mentorship of Professor Sir Christopher Dobson. At Cambridge, Philip’s PhD was awarded the Chemistry Department’s Outstanding Thesis Award in Biological Chemistry. His early career as a research scientist at Seattle Children’s Hospital also saw him contribute to the development of some of the first CAR T-Cell therapies to enter paediatric clinical trials.

Paige Gelder

ASE Co-Facilitator, Capgemini

Uniquely-skilled professional with over five years’ experience in the CAD/PLM software consulting industry, Paige currently leverages her passion for innovation and human connection as a Co-Facilitator within the Accelerated Solutions Environment (ASE) team at Capgemini.

In her previous role as Internal Communications Lead for Dassault Systèmes Northern Europe, Paige created a data-driven communication strategy and leads campaigns to ensure that the corporate purpose and values of the global business software company are understood by teams across the region, to increase ownership and business success externally.

Jack Perschke

Co-Founder and CEO, Great Wave AI

Jack Is the Co-founder and CEO of Great Wave AI.  Great Wave AI is a UK built-and-based platform that provides all the quality, trust and control infrastructure required to make GenAI useable in government bodies and regulated industries.  The platform is being used by organisations like The Insolvency Service, Warwickshire Police, TalkTalk and Taylor Wessing - the global law firm.  Before Great Wave AI, Jack spent 20 years delivering technology consulting services to central government clients for companies like Atos, EY and Advania.

Graham Brown

Marketing Director, Tunstall Healthcare

Biography

Graham has been working in and around the healthtech industry since 2015, with experience working across multiple care settings, covering both health and social care, and a broad range of technologies and services. As a commercial marketing leader he has championed the adoption of technology to drive better outcomes for citizens, whilst working alongside partner organisations to help realise integrated health and care. His current role covers strategy, product, partnerships, and customer engagement, bringing broad and holistic thinking alongside practical experience of leading change programmes. With a passion for realising the true potential of digital adoption, Graham continues to look for new opportunities to have a positive impact on the future of health and care technology.

What you will bring to the Health & Social Care Council and the techUK Health & Social Care programme’s work

As integrated health and care continues to become more of a reality across the UK, it is essential that techUK reflect the needs of the entire system and the technology landscape that supports it. Tunstall Healthcare provides an established (65 years) voice that has grown to become one of the leading technology and services partners to a wide range of social care, local authority, and housing organisations throughout the UK, whilst also supporting a number of trusts in the implementation of virtual care across a wide range of pathways. By becoming a member of the council, I aim to ensure the wider system requirements are represented, understood, and become embedded in the delivery programmes of techUK. For integrated care models to truly develop and address the many challenges facing the system, it is essential for suppliers to be part of that conversation and understand we are part of a complex ecosystem that needs close collaboration. By bringing together the shared resource, knowledge and passion of the health and social care technology space this council can be a real driver of positive change.

Scott Dinkle

UK Life Sciences Implementation Lead , Epic

Nuala Polo

UK Public Policy Lead, Ada Lovelace Institute

Amy Jordan

Director, Technology Policy, Ofcom

Amy is Director of Technology Policy at Ofcom, focussing in particular on supporting the delivery of the online safety regime from a technology perspective as well as addressing a range of cross cutting tech policy issues. Previously she has worked across a range of UK government departments leading on technology security and data policy issues in the UK and internationally. She also spent two years at the World Economic Forum’s Centre for Cybersecurity leading initiatives on the impacts of future technologies on cyber threats, and on telecoms security.

Chantelle De Villiers

Director of Public Affairs, UKI, Sage

An accomplished public affairs leader with a strong foundation in public policy and stakeholder engagement, Chantelle has over ten years’ experience in shaping public policy and building impactful campaigns. Currently serving as Director of Public Affairs, UKI at Sage, Chantelle previously worked at the British Retail Consortium where she represented and interests of the retail industry to government. Chantelle began her career working for several Members of Parliament before moving to the private sector.

Sian Penny

Director Public Safety and Justice, BT

Sue Holloway

Business Development Director, NEC Software Solutions

Sue Holloway is Business Development Director at NEC Software Solutions a leading provider of software and services to public sector markets. This is a key role developing the business and requires strong relationships with customers, understanding their challenges and developing propositions to support outcomes.

Dave Parkin

VBSE CTO, Vodafone Business UK

Doniya Soni-Clark

Associate Director of External Affairs, techUK

Doniya Soni-Clark is Associate Director of External Affairs at techUK, where she leads the organisation's relationships with key political stakeholders and ensures the voice of the UK tech sector is heard loud and clear - in Westminster, Whitehall, and beyond. She is responsible for shaping techUK's political engagement strategy and representing members' interests to media, translating complex tech policy into compelling narratives that cut through.

Aaron Ashby-Gittins

Capita

Ian Corby

Executive Director, Age Verification Providers Association

Andy Kemp

Head of Public Sector, Kainos

Andy leads the Public Sector division in Kainos’ Digital Services business and is a member of the Executive Leadership Team. Kainos, a UK SME success story, employs over 3,000 people and generates >£350 million in global revenues, establishing itself as a leading digital services provider for the UK Public Sector. 

Emilia Conlon

Communications & Planning Lead, Riverlane

Emilia Conlon is Communications & Planning Lead at Riverlane, the world leader in quantum error correction (QEC) — the technology that will enable quantum computers to scale from experimental machines to utility-scale systems capable of transforming industries. She leads communications and strategic planning at Riverlane, having established the company’s communications function to build its profile as a science, product, and thought leader in quantum computing. Previously, she was a consultant at Milltown Partners, a global advisory firm, where she advised technology companies on reputation, communications, and public policy challenges.

Ian Bolton

Academic Director, TechSkills

Ian leads TechSkills’ engagement with accredited learning providers, driving the development of innovative pathways into technology careers. His work spans accreditation development, curriculum design and enrichment programming, while building strong partnerships with academics, educators and training providers across the UK.

Vince Mullin

Financial Services Lead - UK&I, NVIDIA

Vince leads the Financial Services business in UK&I for NVIDIA. Collaborating daily with C-level Executives and Data Science Teams at Banks, Fintechs, Payments, Regulators & Central Banks to accelerate transformation by building AI Factories. This includes navigating the complexities of AI adoption in FS such as regulation, data privacy & security, explainability and overcoming legacy infrastructure limitations. Part of the role also includes enabling the ecosystem of Financial Software firms, Cloud Service Providers, OEM's, Management Consultancies and VC’s to adopt AI and make connections across the industry for the benefit of UK PLC. An example is a quarterly AI meet-up that Vince organises. Previously, he led Microsoft’s Data & AI business for UK Banking, with prior leadership in Investments & Insurance. Vince has deep, practical experience in what works (and doesn’t) across cloud, data science, and GenAI.

Dwayne Doherty

Client Lead - Defence, QinetiQ Ltd

Ben Brown

Client Director - Security and Justice, Hitachi Solutions

Kayliegh Sugden

Client Director, Hippo Digital Ltd

With over 10 years of leadership experience in digital delivery, Kayliegh has a proven track record of driving success. She specialises in business development for the Public Sector, working with organisations to meet their commercial goals while delivering exceptional customer satisfaction and service excellence.

Sian Wilson

Co-Founder / Executive Director- Commercial, Day One

Sian Wilson is a distinguished leader in edtech and education, with a career spanning 25 years focused on vocational, technical, and higher education. Sian began working with large corporate businesses and national skills agencies, developing and managing extensive apprenticeship programs in the UK across financial services, tech, and retail sectors. Sian played a pivotal role in bridging government and business, leading to a position at Tech Partnership during the introduction of the Levy, collaborating with government and employers on apprenticeship system reforms and the inception of degree apprenticeships.

Charlotte Lewis

Principal Associate , Mills & Reeve

Biography

An award winning commercial and technology lawyer at leading law firm Mills & Reeve, Charlotte advises health and care organisations on legal, commercial, and strategic issues relating to commissioning, contracting and collaborating. 
Having worked on a range of health and social care projects from system and place-based integration and provider collaboration to electronic patient record procurements and digital health platform development, Charlotte works in partnership with clients to help them to navigate complex issues in order to deliver the desired outcome.
Charlotte is an advocate for innovation and transformation in the sector and in addition to her legal role at Mills & Reeve she proudly chairs pro-Manchester’s healthcare committee, co-leads One HealthTech’s Manchester hub and has been an elected member of techUK’s Health and Social Care Council for the past three years. 

What will you bring to the Health and Social Care Council?

As a keen and passionate supporter of the health and social care sector, I’m driven to support the great work that is taking place across the country. I believe strongly that with the right approach, technology will be a key enabler in improving health and social care in the UK and globally.

Kenny Fakeram

Head of Accreditation Partnerships, TechSkills

I bring international experience across leading global technology organisations, having worked with Microsoft and Palo Alto Networks in both the UK and France. I also held a leadership role at OpenCertif France, where I led and inspired teams, coached professionals, and built strong bridges between education, certification, and industry.

Dr Sinziana Irimia

Business Development Manager, College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham

Ivan Kinash

co-founder and CEO, Licel

Shadi A. Razak

Co-CEO/CTO, Angoka Ltd

Wayne Swiggs

Solutions Architect & Head of Growth & Strategy, Argo DevOps Solutions Ltd

Wayne Swiggs is a cyber training, exercising, and information security professional with over 25 years of experience in Defence and national security. He has led major cyber operations, incident response, and data governance programmes across the UK and overseas, including the delivery of the UK Government’s first cyber exercise environment.

Ronnie Manning

Chief Brand Advocate, Yubico

Fiona Booth

Head of External Affairs, Healthcode

Biography

I hold the position of Head of External Affairs at Healthcode, with lead responsibility for external engagement with stakeholders, including transforming the use of technology within hospitals and by clinicians. I build relationships with stakeholders such as the DHSC, NHS England, BMA and other healthcare professional representative bodies. I am well respected within the industry and a vocal advocate of the use of technology to support healthcare professionals in delivering safe and timely care. Before joining Healthcode I was the CEO of AIHO – the trade association for independent/private healthcare, raising the profile of the independent sector and giving it a voice in the media, government and broader healthcare sector.

Chris Parkinson

Senior Government Affairs Manager , VodafoneThree

Chris is responsible for Vodafone UK's advocacy on telco market conditions, public service digitalisation and private sector uptake of digital tools. He has been at Vodafone for eight years, with prior experience in the construction industry and in Westminster.

Emma Parkin

Social Value Lead, BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

Justin Wilson

Senior Vice President and Head of UK Industries, Salesforce

Justin Wilson is a highly accomplished executive, serving as the Senior Vice President and Head of UK Industries for Salesforce. Justin’s organisation is responsible for driving the growth and success of customers in the region. Justin has held this position since February 2023. In addition, Justin is also the executive sponsor for the AbilityForce equality group and serves on the advisory board of international NGO, Save the Children UK.

Prior to his current position, Justin excelled as the leader of the MuleSoft business unit from 2018. During his tenure, he spearheaded transformative growth, driving MuleSoft to achieve unparalleled success in the UK and Ireland. Under Justin's visionary leadership, MuleSoft secured the coveted position of #1 market share in API management and integration. Moreover, his strategic initiatives resulted in a threefold increase in organisational revenues during this period.

Justin joined Salesforce in January 2009, holding several senior leadership positions in the UK & EMEA. Notably, Justin has played a pivotal role in propelling Salesforce's rapid expansion, enabling the company to outpace its competitors in the enterprise software industry. Before embarking on his career at Salesforce, Justin spent eight years at Nortel, where he lead an international team and acquired a deep understanding of the technology and customer experience landscape.

Sarah Shepherd

Head of All-IP Industry Liaison, techUK

Sarah Shepherd heads up the recently established Digital Phone Switchover function which is housed within techUK.

Tushar Prabhu

Chair of Trustees, The Kartik Foundation and gradvisor

Tushar Prabhu is the chair of Trustees at The Kartik Foundation and a Board member of Variety International, the Children’s Charity. Both organisations are dedicated to advancing the lives of underprivileged children and young people.

Lara Groves

Senior Researcher, Ada Lovelace Institute

Hollie Hodgson

Head of Account Management, Tussell

Head of Account Management at a UK data provider called Tussell – a company that sells insights on public sector contracts & spending to bodies in both the public and private sector. I’ve been with the company for nearly 5-years and, as anyone who’s worked at a start-up would say, I’ve had my fingers in a lot of pies! I’ve sat in nearly every business unit and loved being able to work my way through the ranks – from initially joining as a Researcher to now leading a team of 7 account managers. I joined after developing a love for start-ups during my time as a data analyst for an ESG reporting start-up called Engaged Tracking, a role which I came across while studying my master’s at King’s College after completing a law degree at the University of Law. I’m a procurement & data nerd who has a keen interest in the public sector and a desire to transpose policy into action, with data at the heart of every decision. I’m passionate about the role scale-ups play in local economies and driving innovation in public procurement. 

Nina Kerkez

Director, Consulting, LexisNexis Risk Solutions

Nina Kerkez is a part of the Consulting team with LexisNexis Risk Solutions. From her base in London, Nina leads FCC consulting group for our UK and Ireland business.  

Nina has started her career in business-to-business marketing, eventually transitioning her talents to technology product development. She specializes in go-to-market strategies and new product development for the risk and compliance sector with attention toward know your customer (KYC) efforts, for the last eight years.

Dave Connelly

Chief Technology Officer – Defence & National Security, Dell Corporation Ltd

Dr. Josie West

Head of Research and Communications, Image Angel

Evren Emre

Founder and CEO, SANLAB

Evren Emre is a technology entrepreneur with a background in mechanical engineering. For over 15 years, he has been at the forefront of building innovative companies and products across robotics, simulation, and gaming. His entrepreneurial journey began in the early 2000s during his university studies, where he worked on matchmaking solutions for industry and SMEs.

Elias Altrabsheh

Managing Expert Consultant , D-fine

Dan Rossiter

BSI

Nadav Mordechai

Director of Product & Strategy, Elsewhen

Nadav is a product and people leader with 15+ years of experience. He enables companies to design and launch new products, transform their working methods, and streamline complex business processes. Combining industry and consulting experience, Nadav helped JPMorgan, CapitalFlow, UMTB, Zego, LMAX, Octopus, Spotify and many others to reach new heights by developing outstanding digital experiences.

Benedict Ryan

Director BD and Technology Consulting, Adarga

Mahooq Badar

Co-Founder and Managing Director, Codurance

Company location: London, UK

Tom Graham

MD, Banking, Accenture

I'm a partner in Accenture's UK business, and lead our work with Banking clients. I also run Accenture's Fintech Innovation Labs/growth programme. I help clients use technology to innovate and modernise..

Laura Taddei

Director of Business Affairs, Benevolent.ai

Jason Shepherd

Fujitsu

Rachael Trotman

Communications Manager, Yoti

Joel Mundy

Business Director, Executive Practice Lead: Digital, Data & Technology, Hays Technology

I’ve worked with organisations in the Education space for over a decade, first joining in Hays in 2013. In my role as Executive Practice Lead for Digital, Data and Technology, I work with organisational leadership attracting diverse and high performing digital, data, technology and change talent with a focus on impacting how education is delivered and consumed. I am passionate about challenging employers on how they look and build diverse skills for the future, ensuring organisations drive inclusive environments to allow everyone to feel empowered and that they have a voice – plus that organisations foster and nurture the development of diverse workforces.

Sean Devaney

Vice President, Banking Strategy, CGI

I am Vice President, Strategy for Banking and Financial Markets at CGI, specialising in the Payments domain with significant exposure to regulatory change, payments strategy and the outsourcing industry, formally a steering committee member at the Digital Pound Foundation think tank. I have 25+ years of experience in the Financial Services industry, ranging from the design of outsourced payment processing operations to a lead role in the development of the UK’s Faster Payments Service, Current Account Switching Service and Open Banking overlay services. I led the development of the Technical Architecture and Infrastructure design for Nexus, a Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub initiative to enable cross border payments. I am responsible for the development of CGI’s Banking and Financial Markets strategy across digitisation, payments, bank operations, risk and regulation, looking at the impact of novel banking trends such as digital currencies, account to account payments and supplier fragmentation.

Jennifer Neff

Managing Director, Access Elemental

Jennifer Neff was born and grew up in Derry, graduated with a BA Honours in Applied Consumer Studies from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, and spent the early part of her career in social and economic regeneration. Jennifer is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Access Elemental, the UK and Ireland’s leading social prescribing technology provider and one of the country’s most successful female led technology companies, connecting over 20 million people into debt advice, walking clubs, befriending and mental health programmes in their local community via Social Prescribing Link Workers to tackle the social issues people face and the core determinants of health. 

Ryan Cousins

Digital Product and Experience Director, TechSkills

Ryan leads Digital Product and Learner Experience, ensuring each Tech Industry Gold learner is supported with unique experiences to enhance their study and learning journey. 

Iain MacDougall

Head of Sustainability, RED Engineering Design Ltd

Iain MacDougall is a Chartered Engineer (CIBSE) with extensive experience in designing data centres and other complex building projects.

Josh Turpin

Programme Manager, Telecoms and Net Zero, techUK

Josh joined techUK as a Programme Manager for Telecoms and Net Zero in August 2024.

Dia Nag

Director of Digital, BetterGov

Lilia Christofi

EMEA Data and AI Financial Services Partner, PwC UK

Lilia Christofi is a consulting leader with over 20 years of multinational experience, specialising in strategic customer transformations across industries and geographies. As PwC UK’s EMEA Financial Services Data and AI Partner, she brings deep expertise in leading high-impact programmes — having held CIO and FSI EMEA Customer Transformation Leader roles on projects valued up to $5 billion. Her work spans both public and private sectors, with a strong focus on Financial Services and Health & Life Sciences. Lilia is recognised for aligning business strategy with advanced technology to deliver measurable value at scale.

Bryn Sage

CEO, InTechnology Plc

Majid Ali

Public Sector Strategy, CrowdStrike

Emily Middleton

Interim Director General for Digital Transformation within the Government Digital Service (GDS), Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Emily Middleton is the Interim Director General for Digital Transformation within the Government Digital Service (GDS) at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). She is responsible for catalysing cross-government digital transformation from within the Government Digital Service. This includes digital strategy, performance and assurance, service transformation, the public sector adoption of AI, plus the foundations that enable transformation such as data, technical architecture, the service manual, and digital skills and capability in the civil service.

Tracey Geoghegan-Smith

Director, Clarion Insight

Abigail Wyndham

Account Director, William Alexander Consulting

Abigail Wyndham is an Account Director at William Alexander Consulting, an SME supplier delivering Technology and Change Professional Services to both the Public and Financial Services Sectors.

Paul Barker

Principal Cyber Security Consultant , Atos IT Services Limited

Paul has over 30 years’ experience working in the IT security industry, working for both public and private sector organisations delivering advice and guidance on enterprise security as well as delivering global security platforms.  Paul has been an advocate for the adoption of industry and regulatory standards encompassing security best practices and has extensive experience in the secure architecture design and deployment for telecommunications, petro-chemical, healthcare, governments, police forces and financial institutions across the globe. 

Philip Craig

Business Development Director, Atos

Tom Mellor

Head of Private Health and Life Sciences , BJSS Ltd

Ben Byfield

Principal Consultant, Actica Consulting

Steve Clarke

Head of NCCE and CPD, STEM Learning

Steve works for STEM Learning where he leads the DfE funded National Centre for Computing Education and shapes the organisation's strategy for teacher professional development. He was a computing teacher and leader for more than a decade and spent several years as a computing curriculum consultant and online safety advisor for Babcock Education in Surrey and Devon. In this role, Steve supported many schools through the transition from ICT to computing, advising leaders on whole-school IT strategy, and helping them to adopt transformative technology.

Natasha Brown

Patients Know Best

Richard Budd

VP Space Digital UK, US & Asia, and UK lead Connected Intelligence, Airbus Defence and Space Limited

Ben Lyons

Director of Policy and Public Affairs, Darktrace

Prof Andy G Sellars

Director of Strategy, CORNERSTONE

Andy is Director of Strategy for CORNERSTONE, the photonics foundry at the University of Southampton. He serves on the UK Government’s Semiconductor Advisory Panel, he chairs the Semiconductor Expert Working Group for UKTIN, and he’s an advisor to the OECD Semiconductor Exchange Network and Silicon Catalyst UK. He has given evidence to five Parliamentary committees, including the National Security and Investment Act, the Telecom Security Act and the select committee on semiconductors.  

Sarah Cornwall

Market Development Lead, Virgin Media O2

Sarah Cornwall is the Market Development Lead for Fixed Wholesale solutions for Virgin Media O2. VMO2's fibre network reaches more than 7 million premises today, with continued expansion well underway. 

Andy Hague

Founder, Cyberfort

Company location: Sandwich, Kent, UK

Gita Singham-Willis

Strategic Engagement Director, Transform UK

Gita Singham-Willis was Founding Partner at Cadence Innova, aquired by Transform UK. She is a dedicated advocate for the consulting industry and social impact, demonstrated by her former roles as MCA  (Management Consulting Association)  Board Member, chair of the MCA Public Sector Working Group, and chair of the MCA DEI Working Group. Gita also serves as a Trustee of the Coram Group.

Andy Hague

CEO TechWM, Director 4TSec

Andy is the CEO of TechWM, an independent not-for-profit organisation that sits at the beating heart of the West Midlands tech sector acting as the voice of the region’s tech ecosystem. He is also the founder and director of 4TSec, a boutique cybersecurity advisory business.

Michael Birtwistle

Associate Director, Data & AI Law, Policy, Ada Lovelace Institute

Ian Stevens

Partner, UK FinTech Lead, Global Technology Group Lead, CMS

I’m a partner in global law firm CMS’s Tier 1 technology practice.  With over 25 years’ experience, I’m a trusted adviser to some of the largest global suppliers of cloud and other technology services, major financial services firms, and a wide range of scale-up and start-up fintech businesses, including members of the firm’s equIP incubator programme.  

Jane Dellar

Account Manager | Social Value Lead, PDMS Ltd

I am the Account Manager at PDMS for UK public sector organisations, focusing on long-term partnerships in the skills and education sector. I am dedicated to ensuring technology delivers the best outcomes for people and businesses.

David Watkins

Solutions Director, VIRTUS Data Centres

Andy Paul

Founder & CEO, Fliweel.tech

Daniel Ratchford

Senior Director & General Manager, UK&I Healthcare & Govenment, IQVIA

Biography

Daniel has held Director-level positions in the NHS and local government.  His 30-year experience in and around the public sector also includes time in central government and the voluntary sector, after an early career at PA Consulting.  He currently leads IQVIA's work providing data and and analytics solutions to health and social care clients across the UK and Ireland.

What will you bring to the Health and Social Care Council?

My experience spans health and social care, working both within the sector and as an adviser from consultancy and data organisations.  In my current role, I lead all of the IQVIA's work for health and social care organisations at national and local level across the UK and Ireland, developing and delivering technology, data and analytics solutions that bridge the gap between healthcare and life sciences.  My unique perspective across these varied sectors gives me a valuable insight into the issues the sector faces, and some of the solutions available to tackle it.

What would you want to help drive forward as part of techUK’s work in health and social care?

I started my career in central government in the early 1990s, working on health and local government policy, mainly focused towards advancing integration between health and social care.  Decades - and many governments - later, policy-makers, service providers and advisers still claim integration as a key aim, although little real progress has been made.  I strongly believe that the opportunities provided by Integrated Care Systems, alongside advances in technology and AI, finally provide a real opportunity to advance the debate.

Stephen Jowett

Senior Director, Head of Healthcare Consulting , IQVIA

Jon Payne

Director of Sales Engineering and Education, InterSystems

Biography

I am the Director of Sales Engineering and Education at InterSystems, with over 40 years experience building and delivering software globally.  Initially working for the Health Service as a developer, I have held a number of positions in both the healthcare and financial arena – including running my own consultancy – before joining InterSystems.  During the last 20 years whilst at Intersystems I led the introduction of InterSystems Integration and Shared Care Record platforms into the NHS, as well as being actively involved with H7 UK, IHE UK, the PRSB and helped found INTEROpen.
I have been engaged with techUK in the Healthcare, AI and Cloud domains for a number of years and have been a member of the Leadership Council for one year.
Current areas of interest include interoperability, AI/analytics and am currently working to help define standards that support access to Health and Care information in an ageing society.

What will you bring to the Health and Social Care Council?

I bring a global perspective on health informatics, founded on a history of actively working within Health and Care standards organisations as well many Health care providers, both within the UK and internationally. I regularly meet with senior people within the NHS, as well as many partners of InterSystems, ranging from large software companies and consultancies to small startups; with a focus on how to more effectively create, enhance and deliver solutions into the Health and Care ecosystem within the UK. Accordingly, I can provide a consolidated perspective across a large number of Healthtec companies and in my time on the council so far I have looked to help address a number of of their challenges, as well as representing the opportunities that they create.

What would you want to help drive forward as part of techUK’s work in health and social care?

I would like to continue to promote the development of an open and accessible ecosystem for companies providing solutions to the NHS, and to advocate for the interests of both startups and larger companies who are looking to adapt to the changing ways of working within the NHS. I see a liquid data economy as being a key enabler for the introduction of innovation into Health and Care, supported by appropriate standards and a drive to continue to move towards the adoption of both culture and process that supports, simplifies and accelerates innovation.

Ella Shuter (ETLC Secretariat)

Junior Programme Manager, Emerging Technologies, techUK

Ella joined techUK in July 2025 as Junior Programme Manager for Emerging Technologies.

Tales Gaspar

Programme Manager, UK SPF and Satellite, techUK

Tales has a background in law and economics, with previous experience in the regulation of new technologies and infrastructure.

Heather Cover-Kus

Associate Director, Central Government and Education, techUK

Heather is Associate Director, Central Government and Education at techUK, working to represent the tech supplier community to Central Government.

Jonathan Cleave

Group Managing Director, Intralink

Keith Driver

CTO Cyber, Raytheon UK

Keith joined Raytheon in 2015 and is an Engineering Fellow and CTO Cyber at Raytheon UK. He has a distinguished career in the telecommunications, defence and cyber security industries as a technology leader and board member in a variety of SME and large organisations, delivering technical advantage though strategy, product definition, and innovation.  He has worked extensively with commercial,  defence and government sector customers worldwide, and has spoken regularly at global conferences.

Denys Demko

First Secretary for Economic Affairs, Ukrainian Embassy

Dimple Khagram

Founder and CEO, Purple Beard

Dimple is an experienced education practitioner and entrepreneur. She has worked in the vocational education sector for more than 15 years in various roles, She has led teams of delivery, business development and setting up & running two successful training companies in the U.K.

Abi Brown

Stoke-on-Trent City Council & LGA Improvement and Innovation Board Member

Michael Watts

Founder and CEO, Blüm Health Ltd

Michael is Young Health Tech Leader of the Year 2024, an NHS doctor, NHS Innovation Accelerator Fellow and MBA Graduate by background. Over the last few years he has been the Co-founder and Managing director of Blüm Health Ltd, an industry-disrupting digital health organisation that collaboratively works with NHS trusts, Universities and SMEs to design, build, and scale digital health software solutions, in the hope to empower public and private sector organisations to boost their digital maturity and unlock their innovative potential. Michael has extensive experience in supporting NHS organisations design, build and procure digital health ecosystems and understands the importance of digital inclusivity from a patient, workforce and organisational perspective.

Alice Harrison

Transformation & Growth Specialist, Athensys

Alice is passionate about conformity and data trust across complex contract environments, leveraging information in a directly meaningful way to deliver simple insight and assurance across programmes. She is a commercially focused Client Relations Director of a Welsh technology SME, and a keen supporter for championing diversity and inclusion within the technology sector and wider society.

John Hunt

Enterprise Ireland

Verity Egerton-Doyle

Antitrust & Foreign Investment Partner, UK Co-Head of Technology Sector, Linklaters

 Verity is an Antitrust & Foreign Investment Partner, UK Co-Head of Technology Sector, and Co-Head of Games and Interactive Entertainment at Linklaters. She has over a decade of experience across advisory, investigatory and transactional aspects of competition law in the EU and the UK, including on vertical and abuse of dominance issues. Verity is particularly familiar with the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority, having spent time on secondment to the CMA’s mergers group, during which she sat on the CMA’s Mergers Intelligence Committee. Verity is recognised as a leading commentator on competition and regulatory issues in the tech sector and on platform regulation regimes.

Ollie Houseman

Managing Director, Evri Insight

Company location: Bristol

Alice Durand

Purpose Delivery Lead, Opencast

Stephen Dobbyne

Client Sales Director, ITS Technology Group

Sean Price

Splunk

Ian Harris

VMware Tanzu Labs, Practice Director – Public Sector, VMware

Ian leads the VMware Tanzu Labs engagement with UK Public Sector, Defence and Healthcare. Ian brings over thirty years of experience in software development and delivery, service transformation and technology innovation. Prior to this, Ian led the IBM GTS (now Kyndryl) <£10M services business for central government departments. 

David Knox

Global Director of Energy & Sustainability, Colt Data Centre Services

Alan Payne

Group Development Director, The Access Group - Health, Support & Care (HSC)

Biography

I’m a Digital and Technology leader with over 30 years in Healthcare, Health Insurance, Banking and global Capital Markets, specialising in digital innovation across multiple support functions.
 
I’ve held executive technology and engineering leadership positions at Aetna International, Nuffield Health, BUPA, Oracle and JPMorganChase, driving product development, transformation and innovation across health and technology.
 
My current position is Group Development Director for the Health, Support & Care division at the Access Group, where I’m responsible for the overall vision, direction and delivery of our technology for this crucial group of customers, as they aim to meet the twin aspirations of digitisation and integration of health and care. My current focus is around virtual wards and breaking down siloes to streamline health and social care services.
 
I hold an Honorary Professorship at the UCL Faculty of Engineering (Intelligent Systems) and I have specific research interests in Digital Health, Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship.

What will you bring to the Health and Social Care Council?

I can bring expertise in technology and AI, focusing on how it can be used in health and care to create additional capacity, help clinicians to make more informed decisions, proactive interventions, and deliver better outcomes for people using services.
 
I’ve worked across four continents, advising an array of healthcare policy organisations, giving me exposure to how different healthcare systems operate. I can bring these various perspectives on multiple systems and geographical locations to the council.
 
As Group Development Director at The Access Group, my work and interests align closely with Tech UK’s Ten Point Plan For Healthtech, especially supporting the integration of social care through digital transformation. My remit covers the Access technology portfolio across healthcare, local government, residential and domiciliary care, spanning specialist areas such as service commissioning, social prescribing and telecare.
 
Working with an extensive customer base across both health and care sector, I can share insights on the challenges they face, success stories and future areas of focus.

Andrew Palmer

Consulting Director, CGI

Andrew works for CGI as a Telecoms Subject Matter Expert, providing pre-sales consultancy and business development support within the Space, Defence and Intelligence business unit. 
He is an experienced Pre-sales Consultant and Principal Solution Architect with significant achievements and a strong leadership track record gained from over 35 years experience in the IT and Telecoms industry. He combines technical and commercial expertise across all project lifecycle aspects from requirements capture through to business case definition, work package development to contracted sale and successful delivery. 
 
His depth of knowledge is across a wide range of business areas and technologies, including IPTV, Mobile TV, Media Delivery and Management, Unified Messaging, Enriched Communications, Service Layer Enablers, Enterprise Applications, Presence, IMS, OSS/NMS, Internet Technologies, Hosting, Managed Services and Network Software. 

Antony Walker

Deputy CEO, techUK

Antony Walker is deputy CEO of techUK,  which he played a lead role in launching in November 2013.

David Buxton

Decision Lab

Sue Daley OBE

Director, Technology and Innovation

Sue leads techUK's Technology and Innovation work.  This includes work programmes on AI, Cloud, Data, Quantum, Semiconductors, Digital ID and Digital ethics as well as emerging and transformative technologies and innovation policy.  In 2025, Sue was honoured with an Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the Technology Industry in the New Year Honours List. She has also been recognised as one of the most influential people in UK tech by Computer Weekly's UKtech50 Longlist and was inducted into the Computer Weekly Most Influential Women in UK Tech Hall of Fame. 

Dr Hayley Watson

Director, Innovation & Research, Trilateral Research

Cara Brooks

Manager, Local Public Services

Afshin Attari

Senior Director of Public Sector, Exponential-e

Sara de la Torre

Head of Financial Services and Insurance, Dun & Bradstreet

I am the Head of Banking and Financial Services at Dun & Bradstreet, responsible for the strategy and market activity in the sector. I am a thought leader and work with financial institutions and the industry ecosystem to maximise an unprecedented opportunity where technology, data and processes are coming together at scale to positively impact on society's wellbeing.

Stephen Hall

CEO, Crown Hosting Data Centres

Steve spent almost 19 years in the Royal Navy as a Chartered Aeronautical Engineer - a perfect background for a second career in IT. 

Kata Escott CB

Managing Director, Airbus Defence and Space UK

Kata is the Managing Director of Airbus Defence and Space UK. Prior to joining Airbus in 2023, she was a civil servant, and has supported governments across a range of national security priorities since 2001. 

Diane Gilbert

Senior Innovation Lead for Programmes, Plexal

Alankar Urankar

Wipro Limited

Robert Stewart

Professor Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng, University of Strathclyde

Cluster 2 is chaired by Bob Stewart, Professor at the University of Strathclyde in the Dept of Electronic Eng. He leads the ‘StrathSDR’ team working on software defined radio (SDR) and next generation radio access networks using shared spectrum with dynamic spectrum access (DSA).  

Lizzie Coleclough

Head of Central Government, Trustmarque

Dr Paul Thorlby

QinetiQ

I am a senior technical leader in QinetiQ with over 25 years’ experience in cyber security and related, mainly for National Security and Defence markets in the UK. I am a Chief Technologist in cyber and information assurance, the Cyber & Intelligence Group Leader, and a QinetiQ Fellow. I have previously held technical, project management, business development, strategy, and business leadership roles. I chair the employer steering group that has pioneered development of national cyber security apprenticeship standards, specifically the Level 4 Cyber Security Technologist and the Level 6 Cyber Security Technical Professional Integrated Degree Apprenticeship. I have been a member of the TechUK Cyber Management Committee since 2012.

Lawrence Reddy

AI Policy Lead, BSI Group

Lisa Lee

AVP Delivery Lead – Home Office Biometrics and Policing and Public Protection (PPPT), Mastek

Andrew Beverley

CEO, Ctrl O

Andy Beverley is the Chief Executive Officer of Ctrl O, a tech company he launched in 2014.

The Information Commissioner's Office

The ICO is the UK's independent body set up to uphold information rights.

Kevin Barton

Hollieguard

Rodger Oates

Head of BFSI Consulting UKMEA, TCS

Experienced business leader and transformation consultant. I currently lead Banking and Financial Services Consulting in the UK, Middle East & Africa for TCS and have added responsibility for developing the BFSI Business Modernisation Offering, which focuses on Defining, Designing and Delivery strategic business transformation programmes. I was previously a Principal Consultant at Capco, where I led client transformation engagements. A Senior Business Partner with R&SA in their Executive Support team, supporting strategic transformation in the business, a Valuation and Strategy Manager in Financial Services for PwC, and a Manager in the Strategic Projects Department of Standard Chartered Bank (inhouse corporate finance team).

Adrian Field

Director of Market Development, OneID

Bipin Kulkarni

Chief Information Security Officer, Gemraj Technologies

Company location: Basildon

Nick Fitzpatrick

Manager, Frontier Economics

Nick joined Frontier in 2015 and specialises in quantitative evaluation of interventions in order to establish the causal impact of policy.

Dr Doug Guthrie

CTO, Digital Modus

Dr. Doug Guthrie is a highly accomplished Salesforce Architect with over 14 years of delivery experience focused on the UK Public Sector. Holding over 20 Salesforce certifications, Doug combines deep platform expertise with a proven track record of leading complex, high-impact digital transformation projects across government departments and public service organisations.

Saba Ahmed

Managing Director – Accenture Security UKI, Accenture UK

I lead the Managed Security Services consulting practice for Accenture UK with a focus on Detection & Response. I have 19 years of experience in the security industry spanning across geographies delivering security projects in Middle East, Asia and Europe.

Neil Timms

SVP, Space, Defence & Intelligence, UK & Australia, CGI

Tricia Blatherwick

Chief Commercial Officer, AutogenAI

Tricia Blatherwick is the Chief Commercial Officer at AutogenAI.  She has spent over 30 years working for some of the UK’s largest IT and Outsourcing companies, generating sales in excess of £4bn.   She holds a degree in English Literature and an MBA in Strategic Discourse - and is passionate about the power of language - including business language - to motivate, inspire and create change in the world. Having put in the 'hard yards’ of bid writing throughout her career, she also knows that the Proposal industry is way overdue for a technological breakthrough - which is the reason she joined the leadership team at AutogenAI.

 With 5 kids, 2 snooty cats, and a dopey Labrador, Tricia thrives on creativity, stimulation, and intravenous caffeine.

Zoe Cunningham

Director, Softwire Technology

Zoe Cunningham is a Director of Softwire Technology, consistently selected as one of the Sunday Times’ top 25 Best Places to Work.

Matthew Peake

Global Director of Public Policy, Onfido

Matt is Onfido's Global Director of Public Policy. He has nearly 20 years experience in public policy roles in telecoms and technology. Prior to Onfido, he spent over 10 years as Head of Policy for UK and Ireland at Verizon, the US tech giant, overseeing policy across a range of areas including digital competition, cyber security and privacy. Matt holds a law degree (UEA), MBA (Henley Business School), post-graduate diploma in Competition Law (Kings College) and diploma in business international relations and the political economy (London School of Economics).

Sarah Blundell

Chief Operating Officer, CyberHive

As COO of a growing UK Cyber SME, I am passionate about delivering technology that can be used to protect people while also delivering business value.  Much of the focus in Cyber security education is on improving the security baseline but I believe that this should not be at the expense of identifying and analysing new and emerging threats and trends along with the opportunities this can provide UK PLC.

Penny Williams

Managing Director, CDW UK and International

Penny Williams has served as the Managing Director of CDW UK and International since October 2024, bringing over 30 years of senior leadership experience to the role. She is dedicated to creating customer value, building strong partnerships, and driving meaningful results.

Emma Thomas

Director of Government Affairs, Experian

Government and regulatory specialist with over 20 years experience of Global policy development based primarily in the financial services, data and AI space. Experienced policy draftsperson who has worked with the UK, US, EU and GCC countries to draft and amend keys areas of legislation and trade agreements including chairing the EU - US trade council in the European Parliament. Regular speaker on tech and data opportunities in the UK, with a keen interest in getting the balance between regulation and innovation for growth in the UK economy right. 

Simon Tobias

UK Public Sector Lead - Local / Regional Government, Snowflake

Phillip Bland

Global Government Advisor, Qualtrics

Alex Evans, UKI Communications & Marketing Manager

UKI Communications & Marketing Manager, Dedalus

Enrique Oti

Second Front Systems

Catherine Hadfield

Senior Lead, Clusers, Plexal

I am a leader and experienced innovation, economic development and policy professional with sound understanding of the complex political and socio-economic challenges and opportunities affecting the UK’s innovation ecosystems. I currently lead the delivery of Plexal’s clusters business, working with complex and secure government departments to support the development of cyber ecosystems around the UK.

Luigi Ardito - Vice-Chair

Senior Director, Government Affairs, Qualcomm

Luigi Ardito is currently working as a Senior Director of Government Affairs EMEA at Qualcomm. He is leading Qualcomm spectrum, technology policy and regulatory policy agenda in Europe dealing with various government entities and industry organizations.

Kamran Lateef

Cluster Operations Manager, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Samara Lattimer

Senior Manager - Services and Solutions (Healthcare and Life Sciences), Akkodis trading as Modis International Limited

Biography

I have spent most of my professional sales career working with and supporting the health sector in the UK since 2002. It started when I worked for Badenoch & Clark providing skilled interim IT resources for NHS Connecting for Health and the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) and NHS Trusts delivering on NPfIT objectives. I grew and led dedicated NHS recruitment teams to power the staffing element behind NPfIT. More recently, I have led and grown our managed services for the healthcare sector under Modis, now rebranded to Akkodis. In the last 18 months, I have scoped and solutioned services to support the implementation of Epic EHR to both Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust and Health & Social Care Northern Ireland providing services to support the build, testing, project management and end user training and we also support NHS Trusts with end user computing managed services too.

What you will bring to the Health & Social Care Council and the techUK Health & Social Care programme’s work

A digital future for patients and caregivers is being developed and enhanced each day but one of the largest setbacks to this digitalisation is the capacity and capability of the current digital workforce within the NHS. With government targets for digital records to be in place by March 2025 for both NHS Trusts and adult social care providers, I have a front row seat hearing what the barriers are to such efforts from a technology talent and services perspective. As a member of the Health & Social Care council, I will bring deep domain expertise on technology skills, upskill and reskill services. As an example, when Health & Social Care Northern Ireland lacked enough accredited Epic application analysts to start their workflow design and build programme, through a relationship with Epic in the UK, I was proud to design and deliver an Academy solution, reducing the need for more expensive offshore options. I share in the same view as Harvard Business Review who remark that “Digital Transformation is about Talent, not technology”, I will provide insights, contacts and a commitment to sharing best practice for all across health and social care providers.

Alison Connor

Programme Lead, Kainos

Neil Woollam

UK Head of Data Centre Operations, Computacenter

Andrew Mallinson

Senior Research Scientist, Intel

Andrew Mallinson is a senior research scientist at Intel Corporation UK, with over 17 years of experience within the technology sector. His research interests and duties include conducting research and development into future computer architectures and associated software ecosystems. To enhance the current state of the art for extreme scale, high performance, data processing systems as well as the overall security of computing systems. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Warwick. Prior to joining Intel he held a variety of technical roles with a significant cyber security focus, and worked on technical projects specific to the UK as well as liaising closely with international partners.

Tim Boeckmann

CEO, Vidos

Billy McHallum

Principal Engineer, Problem & Risk Management, Global Operations Engineering, Equinix (UK) Limited

Elis Thomas

Programme Manager, Tech and Innovation, techUK

Elis joined techUK in December 2023 as a Programme Manager for Tech and Innovation, focusing on Semiconductors and Digital ID.

Adrian Flowerday

Managing Director, Docobo Ltd

Biography

Adrian Flowerday is MD of Digital Health solutions provider Docobo Ltd, who provide the DOC@HOME® remote monitoring platform supporting management of patients virtually in the community). A Chartered Engineer with over 30 years of experience developing technology based solutions for areas including radar, sonar, imaging and medical. His vision led to the development of Docobo’s DOC@HOME telehealth infrastructure as a qualified Medical Device.  He has been passionately involved with TechUK for over 18 years, and served on the Health and Social Care Council representing SME’s. He became an NHS Innovation Accelerator Fellow in 2016 selected by Sir Bruce Keogh. He has led Docobo’s inclusion in G-Cloud, HSSF, SBS and SPARK_DPS Frameworks, and driven the use of DOC@HOME internationally.

What will you bring to the Health and Social Care Council?

As a pioneer of remote digital health (Telehealth) and Population Health Intelligence, with a passion to ensure that information captured is made available to all professionals involved in patient care, I bring a practical and balanced view of the market and the need for appropriate interoperability between telehealth and EPR systems. Telehealth supports direct engagement between patient and professional, and as such I support the council’s work with NHSE as the 10 year plan and drive to reduce waiting lists is realised. Remote Monitoring is high on the agenda and my 19 years experience allows me to present reality and advice. My work with our population health platform has given me deep insights to health utilisation across sectors.  I have a passion to see innovative SME’s link with established players to help bring these new ideas and solutions to market. My contacts with colleagues in other digital health companies allow me to represent the views of the remote digital health and the health intelligence industries.  My work, time and energy invested to date highlights my commitment to the Council and continuing to serve on the Council would bring this energy to the benefit of the Council and the wider healthIT industry.

What would you want to help drive forward as part of techUK’s work in health and social care?

Gary Thompson

Lead Client Partner, Capgemini

Victor Rose

Head of Strategy, BAE Systems

Kirsten Blackwall

UK Programmes and Solution Lead, Airbus Defence and Space Limited

Jonathan Grice

Partner, KPMG

Jonathan Grice is a Partner in KPMG’s Infrastructure, Government & Healthcare (IGH) practice, helping public‑sector organisations design and deliver Cloud and AI‑enabled transformation. He works with government leaders to modernise legacy environments, improve digital service delivery, and unlock the value of emerging technologies—while ensuring governance, security and operational resilience. Jonathan leads multidisciplinary teams globally to shape strategy, design, accelerate adoption, and support clients in realising tangible citizen and organisational outcomes from Cloud and AI platforms.

Katie Davies

Head of Energy and Infrastructure Policy, techUK

Katie is Head of Energy and Infrastructure Policy, leading work spanning energy usage and costs, grid connections, electricity market reform, and water digitalisation. She is covering for Teodora Kaneva who is currently on maternity leave.
Katie joined techUK from Seahorse Environmental, where she led sustainability-focused public affairs and communications campaigns, with a particular emphasis on decarbonisation, renewable energy, clean transport, and water regulation. Before that, she was a journalist at IJGlobal, reporting on renewable energy mergers and acquisitions. 

Howard Pearson

Energy & Sustainability Manager , Digital Realty

Leontina Postelnicu

Head of Health and Social Care, techUK

Leontina joined techUK in March 2020, where she is now heading up the organisation’s Health and Social Care programme. At the moment, she is also completing an MSc in Health Policy at Imperial College London.

Rachael Beer

Business Development Director & Co-Chair, techUK’s Local Public Service, Capita Local Public Service

Jason Kay

Chief Strategy Officer, Mercator Digital

Company HQ location: London, UK

Christopher Harrell

CTO, Yubico

Liz Ashall-Payne

Founding CEO, Orcha

Liz Ashall-Payne's visionary leadership, extensive expertise in healthcare transformation, and dedication to harnessing the potential of digital health make her a prominent figure in the industry, driving positive change and innovation for the benefit of patients and healthcare systems worldwide.

If you wish to contact a member of the Board, please do so via [email protected].

Luigi Ardito

Senior Director of Government Affairs EMEA, Qualcomm

Luigi Ardito is currently working as a Senior Director of Government Affairs EMEA at Qualcomm. He is leading Qualcomm spectrum and regulatory policy agenda in Europe dealing with various government entities and industry organizations. He is also the Chairman of Digital Europe Spectrum Group and member of the GSA Spectrum management team.

Edward Duval

Central Government Relationship Manager, Triad

I was lucky enough to have been voted onto this Council last year. I can’t believe I'm coming to the end of the two-year tenure, when there’s still a lot to do! Anyway I’m in my 27th year at Triad, when I started the world was a different place! No E-Mail or Teams, and paperwork was faxed or posted to clients! Then, I supported our government projects, bringing on board qualified associates to supplement full time staff. Fast forward to 2024 and I now look after Triad’s relationship with its Central Government clients. Triad’s a Top 20 supplier of Digital Services, via the Crown Commercial Services Frameworks, and an SME to boot! I help ensure we deliver our commitments on time, budget, and to the Deliverables set out in our clients Statements of Work. I’ve also presented with CCS to other suppliers on how to make best use of frameworks.   

Gwen Edwards

CMO, Bexprt

Sam Allen Oliver

Power Plant Operator, Grey Fade Corporation

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John Fitzpatrick

Head of Smart Data, Department for Business and Trade

John Fitzpatrick is the Head of Smart Data for the Department for Business and Trade. He leads the team responsible for the Smart Data clauses in the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill. His team are also supporting Smart Data policy development via a wider programme of work, including the Smart Data council. Prior to working on Smart Data, John led on policies covering Health, Science and Innovation. 

Chris McKean

Solutions Specialist , NetApp

Simon Cox

Chief Transformation Officer, ServiceNow

28 years working in Technology in UK FS, former CIO in the insurance and banking sectors. 3 years ago joined ServiceNow to help their customers navigate through their transformations. My role is Global and cross-industry, but has a significant focus on working with FS customers in UK&I.

Tijs Broeke

Director Government Affairs & Public Policy (United Kingdom, Ireland and Northwest Europe), HP

Tijs is a senior communications and government relations advisor to global brands and UK organisations with a professional background in tech, transport, and security. Based in the City, Tijs leads government affairs and public policy in the UK and Northwest Europe for HP Inc.

Sarah McLoughlin-Abrahams

Head of Accreditation, TechSkills

Sarah is responsible for client services delivery and managing projects. She has many years experience in large scale programme management, skills development projects, and stakeholder relationship management. 

Fred Sugden

Associate Director, Defence and National Security, techUK

Fred is responsible for techUK's activities across the Defence and National Security sectors, working to provide members with access to key stakeholders across the Defence and National Security community. Before taking on the role of Associate Director for Defence and National Security, Fred joined techUK in 2018, working as the Programme Head for Defence at techUK, leading the organisation's engagement with the Ministry of Defence. Before joining techUK, he worked at ADS, the national trade association representing Aerospace, Defence, Security & Space companies in the UK.

Paul Tomlinson

Managing Director, IEG4

Company location: Manchester

Gus Tugendhat

Founder & MD, Tussell

Company location: London, UK

Nick Rhodes

BAE Systems

Avril Jolliffe

Director General Industry, Trade and Economic Security, Ministry of Defence

Evie Francis

BT

James Searle

Client Director, Computacenter

Rim Almaliki

Rector of Skills Lab, North America, FDM Group

With over 25 years of expertise in IT management, technical training, and talent development, Rim Almaliki serves as the Director of Skills Lab, North America, at FDM Group. She leads an innovative, agile-based upskilling ecosystem that prepares consultants for emerging industry demands through tailored learning models and cross-functional pods aligned with client needs and cutting-edge technologies. 

Neil Bacon

Principle, Adobe

Biography

Neil Bacon is a seasoned senior executive with expertise in delivering results and driving the strategic, commercial, and digital transformation of large, complex technology and Health Care organisations. His focus is on purpose-led, profitable growth, sustainability, governance and stakeholder value for Adobe into Healthcare. Neil will bring skills in Digital Transformation, Design Thinking, strategy and strategy execution alongside proven ability to drive change bringing multiple organisations together. Neil is chair of the Adobe Public Sector Board. Neil is well versed in bringing people with different agendas together and aligning towards a big new vision.

What you will bring to the Health & Social Care Council and the techUK Health & Social Care programme’s work

Neil is the Principle within Digital Strategy Group for Healthcare. He is involved in building new strategies and go-to-market methodologies and oversight to the change management landing and adoption of these priorities, and transformational initiatives within both customers and internally within Adobe. He plays a key leadership role within the organisation. Neil is a change agent, someone who sees the big picture and then helps parties navigate and execute effectively, he has an exceptional capability to bring people together from many places and deliver. Prior to joining Adobe, Neil held senior positions at PwC and Accenture delivering multiple transformation projects in the Healthcare space including for NHS Digital. Neil lends his extensive healthcare, technology, digital transformation, sales experience by participating on boards, both in the private and public sectors. He has held NED and board roles at Healthwatch, Help and Care, APMP. Neil was a founding Director of two trade associations – Innopsis and EuroCloud and has extensive experience of managing Trade Associations and relations within both the NHS and wider government. Neil holds an MBA on how technology should be managed in Public Sector and Healthcare, plus has qualifications in Operating-Model Design Thinking & Agile.

Will Trout

VP for Sales and Operations, Altera Digital Health

Olivia Harker

Microsoft

OneID

Ed Ratcliffe

Head of Public Affairs, techUK

As Head of Public Affairs, Ed leads techUK’s strategic engagement with Whitehall, Westminster and beyond. He regularly engages government ministers, members of the UK’s parliaments, metropolitan mayors, and senior civil servants on the role of technology in the UK’s economy and society.

Katy Alexandar

CCO, Delta.g 

Chris Hazell

Programme Manager - Cloud, Tech and Innovation, techUK

Chris is the Programme Manager for Cloud, Tech and Innovation

Rebecca Roffe

Partner , CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP

Dr. Yuliana Topazly, MBE

Associate Professor of Enterprise and Innovation, University of East London

Dr. Yuliana Topazly is an Associate Professor of Enterprise and Innovation at the University of East London, a Director of Strategic Planning Team at DOHE and an award-winning social entrepreneur.

Alex Woodward

Head of Cyber Security Services, CGI

Alex leads cyber security services for CGI IT in the UK. The group provides a balanced portfolio of services across a broad range of sectors from Defence and Intelligence, Central and Local Government, Energy and Utilities, Financial Services as well as the commercial sector. Engagements include the design and delivery of major transformational programmes, consultative assignments, and the provision of a range of operational security managed services.

John Topp

Office Executive, techUK

John has been an integral part of techUK and its predecessor Intellect since 1997.

Mike MacDonagh

Director, Soft Practice

Lynette Ousby

CEO, ReStart

With over 25 years of leadership experience, I began my career in the GE Leadership Programme under Jack Welch and Jeff Immelt, where I honed my skills in transformation and growth. Over the past 15 years, I’ve specialised in health tech, driving impactful change within the NHS by ensuring clinicians have timely access to critical data.

Jo Jackson

Client Partner, UK Public Sector, DXC Technology

Biography

My early career started with training unemployed people and finding them employment, feeding my passion for making a difference to people’s lives. For the past 25 years, I have worked as a Solution Sales professional, with technology as the backbone. In 1997 I started my technology career at Xerox; before moving into the bespoke e-learning industry in 1999. Whilst here I became their Healthcare specialist, working with several NHS clients, which ignited my passion for Healthcare. In 2013 I moved to IBM’s Talent Management solutions Public Sector team, before becoming a Client Executive in 2019, focused on Healthcare. My clients included NHS Digital, NHS BSA, and various NHS Trusts across the North of England. In May 2022, I moved to DXC Technology in the Public Sector Sales Team, where I orchestrate the wider DXC expertise focusing on delivering outcome based digital transformation, modernisation and innovative solutions to Clients across Healthcare.

What you will bring to the Health & Social Care Council and the techUK Health & Social Care programme’s work

I’m excited to bring my extensive career and life experience to the Council. My work in the technology industry; along with my passion for improving people’s lives is what pushes me to make a difference. Some of the best examples I have been involved in, where technology makes a difference are often when simple and minor technical advances deliver big impact. This can be a ChatBot used by Alder Hey Children’s Hospital to support Patients and their carers before those scary hospital visits; or an e-learning programme delivering Palliative Care Pathway training to Social Care staff, remotely at a convenient time/place. I was born and raised in a very deprived part of Liverpool and have first-hand experience of how health inequality can have a huge detrimental effect on people lives, our communities and our economy. At this time of crisis in our economy, the high cost of living added to our Healthcare system stretched to the limit, we will all face difficulties accessing services and health inequality will potentially get worse not better! We need to think differently, we need to focus on people and how we can help improve health inequality by using technology as an enabler.

Tracy Modha

Programme Marketing Assistant for Public Sector Markets, techUK

Tracy supports the marketing of several areas at techUK, including Cyber Exchange, Central Government, Cyber Resilience, Defence, Education, Health and Social Care, Justice and Emergency Services, Local Public Services, Nations and Regions and National Security.

Ayesha Gulley

Policy Product Manager - AI Governance, Holistic AI

Erwin Frank-Schultz

IBM

Ian Menzies

Vice President and General Manager - Intelligence and Cyber International Division, L3Harris

Jenny Yu

Chemical and Life Sciences Practice Leader, Marsh

Spencer Newsham

Technology Sales Leader, IBM

Andrew Burgess

Founder and CEO, Greenhouse Intelligence

Company HQ location: London

Aaron Prior

Head of Bid and Government Affairs, Trustmarque

A little bit about me: 

Stuart Cooke

Director of Spectrum and Industry Affairs, Samsung, Samsung

Stuart is Chair of the GSA’s Global Spectrum Team and Director of Samsung’s Spectrum & Industry Affairs. 

Michael Roberts

Chief Innovation Officer, Kahootz

Kevin Shieber

Chief Operations & Technology Officer, Colt Data Centre Services UK Ltd

Elisabeth Sullivan

Sustainability Policy Manager, techUK

Elisabeth joined techUK in November 2025 as Sustainability Policy Manager within the Climate, Environment and Sustainability team.

Helen Berry

Local Government Lead, CDW UK

Angela Dixon

Managing Director, SocietyWorks

Marion Ingleby

Head of Digital (interim), Durham County Council

Steve Berry

Executive Chairman, CyNation/ANGOKA

Company HQ location: Belfast

Ksenia Edsall, MBA

Senior VP, EverybodyCounts Ltd

Riccardo Degli Effetti

VP EMEA Operational Readiness & Site Delivery, VIRTUS Data Centres

Adrian James

Head of Northern Europe, Airports, Amadeus

Angus McFadyen

Partner - FS technology and sourcing, Pinsent Masons LLP

I am a technology lawyer that has been working within the FS sector since 2005 - though this time i have worked on industry-wide initiatives and major changes affecting the sector (e.g. the increasing adoption of cloud, introduction of open banking and now open finance, and implications of AI). My role in Pinsent Masons is to lead the Tier 1 team of lawyers that delivers technology transactions and advisory capability to all sectors, with FS being my personal focus. This gives me great visibility of market and deal trends and issues, and a breadth of experience that I can tap into to support the work of the FS Council.

Matthew Evans

Chief Operating Officer & Director of Markets, techUK

Matt Evans is techUK's Chief Operating Officer and leads our Market Programme teams.

Dr. Abhaya Sumanasena

Head of Policy and Regulation, Real Wireless

Abhaya is a results-driven and influential leader with extensive experience developing and delivering forward-looking spectrum strategies and policies. Abhaya currently leads the Spectrum and Regulatory Practice at Real Wireless and is the Chairman of the UK Spectrum Policy Forum (UK SPF). He has over 20 years of hands-on experience successfully leading radio spectrum/regulatory work and techno-economic analysis within national regulatory authorities, MNOs and vendors.

Paul Finch

Chief Operating Officer / Chief Technical Officer, Kao Data

Laurent Strauss

CyberSecurity Strategist, Opentext

Mark Thomas

Business Director – Public Sector, ITS Technology Group

Martin Jebb

CGI

Rosie Taylor

HR Manager , techUK

Rosie is the HR Manager for techUK and is responsible for strategic projects.  

Joshua Munday

Senior Presales Engineer, Rowden Technologies

Alan Payne

Development Director, The Access Group HSC

Biography

I am an executive level Digital and Technology leader with over 30 years in Healthcare, Health Insurance, Banking and Capital Markets, bringing digital innovation, vision, knowledge, drive and the ability to deliver globally across multiple businesses and support functions. I’ve held executive technology and engineering leadership positions at Sensyne Health, Aetna International, Nuffield Health, BUPA Merrill Lynch, Oracle and CTO at JPMorganChase. I am now Group Development Director for the Health, Support & Care division at the Access Group. Here I am responsible for the overall vision, direction and delivery of our technology for this crucial group of customers, as they aim to meet the twin aspirations of digitisation and integrated health and care. I also hold an Honorary Professorship at the UCL Faculty of Engineering (Intelligent Systems), and I have specific research interests in Digital Health, Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship.

What you will bring to the Health & Social Care Council and the techUK Health & Social Care programme’s work

I can bring specific expertise in areas such as how tech and AI can be used in health and care to create additional capacity, help clinicians to make more informed, proactive interventions, and deliver better outcomes for people using services. I’ve also worked across four continents, advised an array of healthcare policy organisations and have been exposed to how different healthcare systems operate and can operate, which should enable me to bring additional perspectives. As Group Development Director at The Access Group, my work and interests align closely with techUK’s Ten Point Plan For Healthtech, especially supporting integration of social care through digital transformation. We remain the largest supplier of software to providers of social care. With recent acquisitions of leading software used in the NHS and local authority commissioning, we now have a technology portfolio and an ecosystem, crossing the care continuum. Working with extensive customer base, I can share a great deal on how the challenges they face and how they have been successful, which should directly support the work of the council. Finally, I am passionate about health and care sector and the impact we as technology leaders can support and help.

David Kynaston O.B.E. F.Inst.P.

David is an experienced and successful Industrialist that migrated from being a Research Physicist to leading and growing some of the most significant technology companies. David has always operated within International Businesses and has been resident in both the Netherlands and the USA.

Heather Cook

Wellmind Health

Over the last 25 years Heather has been at the forefront many of the UK's major public sector change management programmes and transformed health and care service provision through digital innovation.  As a hands-on board member and advisor, she’s delivered paradigm shifts in the way that our patients access innovative health tech, and how our systems support innovation and disrupt the status quo.

Aleyne Johnson

Director of Government and External Relations, Samsung Electronics

Aleyne is responsible for leading Samsung's policy development across all business and technology issues and works with Government and a wide range of external stakeholders. He also helps promote UK trade with important tech nations around the world.

Liz Ashall-Payne

CEO, Orcha Health

Company HQ location: Cheshire

Bangdao Chen

The Blockhouse Technology Ltd

Sabine Heine-Bickle

Head of Risk & Assurance, Pulsant

Robyn Heslin

UK Engineering Skills and Capabilities Lead, Thales

Tony Burton

Managing Director – Cyber Security & Trust, Thales UK Ltd

Tony Burton is the Managing Director of the Cyber Security and Trust business of Thales UK Ltd.  Covering a broad spectrum of market verticals from Defence, Government and CNI, Tony has established Thales as a leading supplier of cyber consultancy, managed services and programme delivery.  Tony’s commitment to the development of an inclusive and socially responsible business has seen great progress in STEM outreach and regional development in South Wales and the establishment of an international Operational Technology Cyber Competence Centre has been a particular highlight alongside the National Digital Exploitation Centre.   Tony comes from a strong engineering and business management background and has been an active member of the ADS Security Sector Board over the last seven years.  Tony is married with two children and is still a keen participant in a number of sports including football, running, surfing and cycling.  

Adrian Bradley

Chair, KPMG

Sachin Agrawal

Managing Director, Zoho UK

Sachin Agrawal is the Managing Director of Zoho UK. Zoho is global software product company with 900,000 customers in 150 companies. It has a large porfolio of products such as Zoho CRM, Zoho Desk and Zoho Workplace, covering all functional areas such as sales, marketing support, finance, IT and collaboration. Prior to his current role, Sachin managed a few of Zoho’s product lines globally and the account management team. Before Zoho, Sachin was an entrepreneur for five years and built an HR Tech SaaS business. Earlier he spent 16 years in consulting, restructuring and enterprise technology space with companies such as IBM, A&M, Tech Mahindra & Tata Group. During this period he worked across various regions including India, APAC, Middle East & Americas.

Stephen Rick

Forensic Analytics

Steve West

Secure Government and Critical Infrastructure Director, Zaizi

Damian Tambirasa

CTO Home Office, Police & Justice, IBM

Alice Campbell

Head of Public Affairs, techUK

As Head of Public Affairs, Alice supports techUK’s strategic engagement with Westminster, Whitehall and beyond. She regularly works to engage with ministers, members of the UK’s parliaments and senior civil servants on techUK’s work advocating for the role of technology in the UK’s economy as well as wider society.

Richard Petrie

CTO & Executive Director, London Internet Exchange Limited

Neil Sawyer

Senior Vice President and Managing Director Northwest Europe Market, HP

Neil Sawyer is responsible for leading market strategy and managing the multibillion-dollar P&L for HP’s Northwest Europe Market, spanning commercial and consumer channel and customer segments. Neil has more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry, across corporate, public infrastructure, and consumer electronics. He is a member of the non-governmental organisation techUK.

Heather Cook

CEO, Wellmind Health

Heather has over 25-years’ experience in leading major public sector change management programmes and transforming services through digital innovation in the health and social care market. Her focus on digital mental health treatments has been forged over the last 10 years through founding and leading pioneering digital health businesses. 

Steve Rotheram

Mayor, Liverpool City Region

One of eight children, Steve was born and raised in Kirkby to a stay-at-home Mum and forklift truck driver Dad. After leaving school with few formal qualifications, Steve began a bricklaying apprenticeship. He went on to run his own building company before working for the Learning and Skills Council.

Oonagh Murphy

Responsible AI Lead, Arts Council England

Oonagh empowers arts organisations to meaningfully engage with digital culture, technologies, and audiences. By bringing an international perspective and an objective viewpoint, she helps organisations tackle tough questions, innovate their business models, and craft long-term strategic plans centred on digital, AI, and data-driven practices. Oonagh has worked in more than 15 countries delivering impactful programs, consultancy, and research services.

Fiona Buckley

Technology Divisional Director, Man Bites Dog

Richard Stubbs

Chief Executive, Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber

Gordon Sweny

Director of Strategy, Satellite Applications Catapult

Gordon is Head of Strategy at the Satellite Applications Catapult. He has worked for more than 20 years in space, defence and technology. He helps organisations and start-ups find real markets for new ideas and get useful tools into people’s hands. His experience ranges from setting direction with boards to running complex programmes with teams across the UK and overseas. He builds strong partnerships, keeps plans practical and measures results. He cares about turning promising tech into services that work, grow and last. A former Royal Marine, he brings a calm, mission-led approach and a bias for action. 

James Mackenzie

Hippo

Heiko Struebing

PwC

Dr Bernard Parsons

CEO, Becrypt SME

I am the CEO and a co-founder of Becrypt, a UK SME that develops and supplies a range of cyber security software products and services, primarily for critical national infrastructure organisations.

Andy Hague

CEO, TechWM

Zeki Turedi

Field CTO, CrowdStrike

Alf Frankin

Head of Public Sector EMEA, Elastic

Heather Cook

CEO, Wellmind Health

Owen Spottiswoode

Associate Director, Digital, techUK

Owen is responsible for ensuring that techUK is at the forefront of digital transformation, learning from and contributing to the innovative community of members and stakeholders we are part of. He, his team and techUK's partners build and maintain techUK's key systems, including its on-site and cloud infrastructure, staff- and member-facing hardware and software, and this very website!

Sarah Cameron

Legal Director, Pinsent Masons

Sarah is in the Technology and Digital Markets sector team and in particular focuses on AI, connected digital twins, data sharing and the convergence of emerging technologies.

Ralitsa Nenkov

Director, Digital Transformation Lead, EY

Ralitsa is EY Life and Pensions Technology Lead and also takes EY New Technology offerings &  Tech Alliances/ Insurtechs propositions to market. She has over 15 years financial services experience  in Life & Pensions, Wealth Management, Financial planning and General Insurance. Prior to EY, worked for one of the largest leading global insurers MetLife and a leading UK digital insurer CTM. She is CII Chartered Financial Planner, Insurance Supper Club Member, 1 of 25 CII Inspirational Women in Insurance. Her experience and focus is  in Digital transformation, Big  Data, Cloud, smart platforms, Insurtechs . She also has extensive experience in Strategic programmes, M&A, Operational Models, Proposition, Distribution channels incl. affinities and B2B. Ralitsa loves travelling, West End, hiking and charity work.

Elizabeth Barr

Head of the Cisco Networking Academy UK, Ireland, and Nordics, Cisco

Elizabeth leads the Cisco Networking Academy programme in the UK, Ireland, and Nordics. The Cisco Networking Academy is a training and education programme that has reached over 24 million learners in 191 countries since programme inception. In her role, Elizabeth manages an ecosystem of over 125,000 annual students and 500 organisations, including charities, police forces, and education institutions. Elizabeth is passionate about making the tech industry a more diverse and inclusive space. She is a Board Member for Women of Cisco, where she leads STEM outreach initiatives, and previously sat on the Board for the Global Women’s Leadership Programme at Bayes Business School. She also regularly volunteers on programmes that inspire students to pursue STEM subjects and careers and spearheads a number of related initiatives through the Cisco Networking Academy.

Hayley Brady

Head of Media and Digital, UK, Herbert Smith Freehills

Hayley advises on media and entertainment, consumer and digital commercial, transactional and regulatory matters.

Lauren Bevan

Head of Healthcare Strategy, BJSS

Biography

Lauren has worked in and with the NHS for almost 20 years. She trained as a Physiotherapist, and then trained as an accountant with PwC specialising in public sector finance.  She spent time as a Deputy Director of Finance and Performance in the NHS where she inherited IT and data services. 
Lauren went back to consulting and spent 8 years at EY where she led the health data and digital team for UK&I.  She has worked on understanding the mortality changes at Mid Staffs, major service reconfigurations and new hospital builds. She is FEDIP accredited and part of the FCI. 
She then worked at BJSS for 4 years where she led the industry team who worked on nhs.uk, the NHS App, eRS and other national core systems. 
Lauren is now Director of Consulting at Ethical Healthcare where she leads the delivery team helping the NHS to utilise and deploy technology.

What will you bring to the Health and Social Care Council?

Lauren previously sat on the council as the representative for BJSS for 3 years and therefore knows the duties and responsibilities of the council.  She continues to work for a supplier agnostic advisory company and this helps with impartiality.  
Her experience from a clinical and operational perspective as well as a technology agnosticism helps to further the cause of interoperability, standards and clinical and operational engagement as part of technology projects.  
As a recovering finance professional, Lauren is keen that finance (including procurement) and technology and IT teams in the NHS work closer together to ensure modern ways of procurements are being brought to bear into the NHS.

What would you want to help drive forward as part of techUK’s work in health and social care?

As a champion for equality and diversity the key focus areas for Lauren if she were successful in her nomination would be 

Racheal Muldoon

Partner, Charles Russell Speechlys

Remit of my current position: I am a partner at Charles Russell Speechlys' London headquarters within the Financial Services Regulation and Funds Team. My remit is to assist traditional and decentralised financial institutions and other industry clients to comply with financial services legal frameworks.

Gordon Morrison

Senior Director, Global Defence Policy, Cisco

Ravi Boodhram

Senior Manager, Cyber Security & Information Assurance, BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

Ravi Boodhram is Head Consultant for Security Architecture and the Security Architecture & Engineering Capability Lead at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence working with customers to deliver secure and resilient systems.  Ravi’s responsibilities include setting the strategic direction for capability development, providing delivery assurance, developing a community of security architects (including their learning and development) and working with customers to understand their challenges developing solutions to best support them in their missions. 

Dr Harry Thirkettle

Director of Health Innovation, Aire Logic

Joshua Vowles-Dent 

 GTM Lead, ComplyCube

Caroline Barnett

Principal Industry Consultant (Intelligence, Defence and Law Enforcement), SAS Institute

Jill Broom

Head of Cyber Resilience, techUK

Jill leads the techUK Cyber Resilience programme, having originally joined techUK in October 2020 as a Programme Manager for the Cyber and Central Government programmes. She is responsible for managing techUK's work across the cyber security ecosystem, bringing industry together with key stakeholders across the public and private sectors. Jill also provides the industry secretariat for the Cyber Growth Partnership, the industry and government conduit for supporting the growth of the sector. A key focus of her work is to strengthen the public–private partnership across cyber to support further development of UK cyber security and resilience policy.

Carla Baker

Senior Director Policy & Government Affairs, Palo Alto Networks

Carla is a Senior Director of Policy & Government Affairs at Palo Alto Networks, where she is responsible for driving the company’s public policy agenda in the UK and Ireland on a
broad range of issues, including cyber security, privacy, and wider technology policy. She is also a Trustee of the UK Cyber Security Council, a member of the Scottish National Cyber Resilience Advisory Board, and Vice-Chair of techUK’s Cyber Management Committee.

Andrew Foster

Managing Director – Public Services, North

Amy Burnett

Head of KPMG Private Enterprise Access, KPMG

Amy leads KPMG’s Emerging Giant support in Scotland, KPMG’s global brand for providing dedicated support to scaling businesses.  Amy is also Head of the UK-wide ‘Access’ programme – an accelerator programme designed specifically for fast-growing, ambitious and high potential tech businesses. Covering a diverse range of themes on business fundamentals, it has supported over 65 businesses to scale rapidly. Her previous roles have been dedicated to supporting tech start up and scale-ups through early-stage business accelerators, working hand-to-hand with founders to drive tangible success. Amy is part of the core team that delivers the KPMG Tech Innovator in the UK competition, where the latest Tech scaleups are celebrated locally, UK-wide, and globally.

Hiren Shah

Delivery Director, Scrumconnect Consulting

Daniella Bennett Remington

Policy Manager - Digital Regulation, techUK

Dani joined techUK in February 2025 as a Policy Manager in the Digital Regulation team.

Julia Lopez MP

Minister of State for Media, Data, and Digital Infrastructure

Julia Lopez was appointed Minister of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport on 16 September 2021. Julia was previously Parliamentary Secretary at the Cabinet Office from 14 February 2020 to 15 September 2021. She has been the member of Parliament for Hornchurch and Upminster in Greater London since 2017. 

Nina Spanovic

Head of Network Solutions Customer Unit UK and Ireland, Ericsson

Nina is the Head of Network Solutions for Customer Unit UK and Ireland at Ericsson. Her role and the role of her team is to support Ericsson’s customers, Customer Service Providers (CSPs), in identifying optimal deployment solutions and defining network evolution strategies that foster growth and innovation. She has been a part of Ericsson for 7 years, working closely with CSPs in the UK and previously across the wider market area. Nina holds an MSc in Electrical Engineering from the School of Electrical Engineering, Department of Telecommunications, in Belgrade, Serbia. 

Kathryn Baddeley

Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, Cisco

Kathryn is the Head of Corporate Social Responsibility for Cisco UK & Ireland, leading and enabling innovative CSR initiatives across the organisation: engaging employees, benefiting the business and supporting Cisco’s not for profit partners.

Suraj Kika

CEO and Founder, Jadu

Allan Leggetter

Managing Director, Cyber & Security Division, Leonardo UK Ltd

Yasmin Brooks

Head of UK Government Affairs, Broadcom

Yasmin is Head of UK Government Affairs at Broadcom, following five years at Brunswick Group as a TMT partner and co-lead of the Global Cybersecurity, Data and Privacy Practice.  Prior to Brunswick, Yasmin spent two decades in key leadership roles in UK Government.  She served as Director General responsible for UK tech policy.  She oversaw the UK Data Protection Act and sponsorship of the UK’s data regulator, together with a range of cybersecurity and wider tech policy issues.

Luke Morgan

Chief Technology Officer, Forensic Analytics

Luke has 14 years experience in providing global law enforcement and national security with commercial software solutions.

Steve Murray

VP Strategy & Marketing, Thales UK Ltd

Matthew Barnard

Director, BBD Software Ltd

I am part of the executive team at BBD where we specialise in solution development.

Camilla de Coverly Ceale

Head of Government Relations, Mozilla

Freddie MacSwiney

Programme Manager - Defence and Cyber, techUK

Freddie MacSwiney is the Programme Manager for Defence and Cyber Security at techUK.

Nathalie Lester

Account Director, Telefonica Tech

Dr Michael Joseph

Brunel University of London, RIEm Programme Lead and Business Development Manager

Dr Michael Joseph is the Programme Lead for Brunel University London’s award winning Research, Innovate and Emerge (RIEm) programme to help businesses to access funding for research and innovation (R&I). He also manages partnerships for R&I in Health Care and MedTech in Brunel including with businesses such as GSK, GE Healthcare, techUK and SMEs. He worked for over 15 years in private sector, managing partnerships with Government bodies, and other funders in over 25 countries including as Head of Business Development for a large Consultancy Group.

Lauren Bevan

Head of Health and Social Care, BJSS

My career in health and social care began over 20 years ago. Initially a hospital cleaner, I later became a clinician, and then progressed to Deputy Director of Finance and Performance. Since then I've spent 12 years in industry. The diversity of my experience is hugely beneficial. I'm motivated by finding ways to stretch the NHS and Social Care's sparse resources, striving to secure equality and equity for citizens to manage the health and well-being of themselves and their loved ones. I have a different perspective on how the NHS can benefit from technology, how data can improve its efficiency and how patient experience and outcomes can be enhanced. As a qualified data scientist with active BCS and FED-IP membership, I have a well-rounded view of the tech landscape. I currently lead the Healthcare team at BJSS with over 400 technologists dedicated to spearheading advancements in health and care technology.

Andy Rowe

Director of Central Government, BT Group Plc

Andy is an experienced technology executive with significant experience both working in and delivering for UK Government. 

Samuel Ajiboyede

Chief Executive Officer, Zido Technologies

Samuel Ajiboyede is a visionary leader transforming industries through technology. As the founder and CEO of Zido, he revolutionizes global goods and service distribution with a payment guarantee for businesses and helps customers manage their bills. He also founded Rowvar, connecting members to affordable premium properties worldwide.

Luke Sheppard

UK Operations Director, nLighten

Richard Checkley

Managing Director of Defence, Digital Intelligence, BAE Systems

Eve Roodhouse

Chief Officer, Culture and Economy, Leeds City Council

Justin Hassall

Transformation Director, Informed Solutions

With over 25 years’ experience in the architecture and delivery of national and international digital and data platforms across the Healthcare system and wider public and private sectors, Justin specializes in leading successful ‘end to end’ delivery of challenging, complex assignments and cross-enterprise initiatives.

Eric Zie

CEO and Founder, GoCodeGreen

Eric is CEO and Founder of GoCodeGreen, he is a Google Brain award-winning technologist who decided to focus the experiences gained during his 25-year career in software design, architecture, development and operation on a new purpose and mission: to help decarbonise the digital world in which we all now live. 

Lalit Suryawanshi

CTO, ITECHO Health

Company location: Leeds, Yorkshire

Austin Earl

Senior Programme Manager, Education and EdTech, techUK

Austin leads techUK’s Education and EdTech programme, shaping strategies that support the digital transformation of schools, colleges, and universities. His work focuses on strengthening the UK’s education technology ecosystem, enhancing core technology foundations, and advancing the adoption of emerging technologies to improve educational outcomes.

Austin also chairs the EdTech Advisory Panel for AI in Education, contributing to national discussions on the future of EdTech, AI, and the UK's Education system.

Dr Jaz Dhaliwal

Digital Healthcare Partner, KPMG

I am a Digital Healthcare Partner at KPMG. I am responsible for the growth of KPMG Digital Healthcare Business in the UK. My portfolio is centered on helping clients across the NHS at national, regional, and local level to transform care enabled by digital and data. 

Shailaja Natarajan

Lead Data Scientist, Accenture

Shailaja N is a visionary Lead Data Scientist at Accenture UK with over 18 years of cross-disciplinary experience in industrial automation, data science, and sustainable digital transformation. With a strong foundation in engineering and a proven track record in delivering scalable AI solutions, Shailaja has emerged as a strategic leader in applying advanced analytics to drive environmental sustainability across the energy and manufacturing sectors.

Amazon

Amazon is great

Jamie Hodson

Global Regulatory Affairs Lead, Oxa

Jamie is Global Regulatory & Public Affairs Lead at Oxa. He leads work in Oxa to engage regulators and governments around the world, communicating the importance of safe autonomy delivering social good. Jamie also chairs techUK’s Self-Driving Vehicle Working Group, which seeks to promote the ADS developer industry and ensure autonomy achieves something for everyone. He previously worked in the UK Department for Transport's Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles where he led the team developing future legislation and regulation, including the Law Commission project and the Automated Vehicles Act.

Sophie Greaves

Associate Director, Digital Infrastructure, techUK

Sophie Greaves is Associate Director for Digital Infrastructure at techUK, overseeing the Telecoms Programme, the Data Centres Programme, and the UK Spectrum Policy Forum.

Amanda Whicher

UK&I Director, Hays

Amanda Whicher is UK&I Director of technology at Hays. With over 17 years of experience in the recruitment sector, Amanda has a wealth of insights when it comes to the challenges employers face accessing and retaining talent. She has a particular interest in encouraging more women into tech, to expand their career opportunities and create more diverse and inclusive tech teams. Amanda is passionate about matching the top technology experts to organisations, through life-long partnerships and workplace solutions, to support both clients and candidates to meet their ambitions and thrive in the ever-changing world of tech.

Carla Scowcroft

Health and Social Care Lead, AtkinsRealis

Biography

Carla is the sector lead for Health & Social Care within AtkinsRéalis, a leading design, engineering, and project management organisation. A former member of the Royal Air Force, she transitioned from operating systems to delivering them following an enjoyable period bringing cutting-edge capabilities into service. Now a Chartered Project Professional, she is passionate about driving integrated, impactful, and responsible digitalisation of public services. In recent years, this has included business change, legacy replacements, capability development, and cyber transformation.
As a member of the Health & Social Care Council, she’ll promote a focus on building cyber resilience across the system, alongside bridging the gap between digitalisation and infrastructure to realise the benefits of SMART buildings. Carla will also advocate for new entrants to the health sector, seeking to reduce barriers to entry, such that the healthcare system has a ready pipeline of new thinking, new ideas and best practice. 

What will you bring to the Health and Social Care Council?

1. Shaping strategic direction. I’ll bring over a decade of experience as a Chartered Project Professional delivering digital transformation in the Defence sector – which has included business change, system design, cyber security, and policy development. Admittedly, the links between Defence and healthcare might not be immediately obvious; however, I would emphasise the cross-over between data protection and securing classified data, or delivering new systems into a high tempo, operational environments where ‘down time’ costs lives. As a member of the council I would draw on my recent experience in the NHS alongside a depth of experience from other sectors, offering a different perspective to shape the Health & Social Care programme.

Zillah Anderson

Director, Health & Life Sciences , Faculty

Sally Rennison

Chief Commercial Officer, Patients Know Best Ltd

Laura Packham

Programme Manager - Climate Tech

Laura has joined techUK from March 2025 on secondment from the Civil Service Fast Stream.

Edward Duval

Central Government Relationship Manager, Triad Group Plc

Edward is now in his 25th year at Triad, but started, when the world was a different place! Edward began by supporting Triad's government projects, bringing on board qualified associates to supplement full time staff. This was before the age of using Email, Voice Mail and paperwork was either printed and faxed, or posted to clients! Fast forward to 2022, Edward now looks after Triad’s relationship with its Central Government clients.

David de la Peña

Chief Operating Officer, Signable

Ann Ibbotson

Head of Commercial, L3Harris TRL Technology

Ian Griffiths

CEO, Aeris-UK

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Tobias Alpsten

Founder & CEO , iPLATO Healthcare

Alex Butler

CDIO and Transformation Director CIO 100 Winner 2024

Alex Butler has over 20 years of senior leadership experience specialising in technology, change, and transformation across the public and not-for-profit sectors. She has led significant programmes at Citizens Advice, the BBC, the University of Bath, Chelmsford City Council, UK Government, and the Royal Institute of British Architects. She is also a Vice Chair and a Trustee of SafeLives, a leading domestic abuse charity.

Laurence Baker

UK Local Government Lead, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Emily Douglin

Executive Director, Local Government, Civica

Andrew Cameron

Government Sector Leader for Technology, Data & Analytics, PwC UK

Andrew leads the Technology, Data & Analytics capability for Government at PwC. He has 25 years of experience leading complex, technology enabled transformation programmes across both the public and private sector.
 
Andrew is currently leading a number of high profile technology and data related projects in the public sector, delivering valuable outcomes including improved data quality, more efficient and insightful reporting and analysis and operational benefits from use of digital and cloud technology.

Graham Booth

CEO, 2iC Limited

Mike Hadgraft

 Lead Cloud Architect, IGH Cloud Transformation

Mike is a Lead Cloud Architect within the Cloud Transformation team at KPMG. Focusing on public Cloud adoption. Specifically, the way that teams and organisations most effectively leverage Cloud and modern DevOps approaches to balance business agility with governance 

Stephen Hall

CEO, Crown Hosting

Company location: London

Peter Holmes

Trustee, Shaw Trust

Peter is a Trustee of Shaw Trust a charity with a thirty five year history of supporting people from a diverse range of backgrounds to recognise and fulfil their potential. With annual income of £260m, 4,000 dedicated staff and a large network of volunteers they are in the top 25 national charities. They provide employment opportunities, skill development training and health and wellbeing services across the UK. Working across 200 sites they deliver services on behalf of a range of commissioners including the Department of Work and Pensions and the National Offender Management Service. They also operate social enterprises, retail shops and eleven academy schools.

Amanda Brooks

Director General for Trade Policy, Implementation and Negotiation, Department for Business and Trade

Amanda Brooks has been Director General for Trade Policy, Implementation and Negotiations in the Department for Business and Trade since June 2021. Amanda leads teams: negotiating free trade agreements (FTAs) and leading the DBT contribution to the reset of the UK-EU relationship; implementing some trade agreements, including aspects of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement and Windsor Framework; providing policy leadership for work on market access, multilateral trade, and development of broader economic relationships; and developing related domestic regulatory policy to improve trade and domestic outcomes together.

Stuart Murdoch

Founder & CEO, Surevine

Oliver Morgan

Venture Partner, Vodafone

Oliver Morgan is Venture Partner and Innovation Lead at Vodafone Group, where he focuses on accelerating innovation and venture engagement across the consumer and enterprise portfolio. His work bridges emerging technologies and commercial impact — developing partnerships, proof-of-concepts, and new growth models around AI, connectivity, and digital platforms.

Pierre-Francois Gerard

Immersionn

Christopher Madin

CEO , Skylark Lasers

Sarah Ellis

Director of Digital Development , Royal Shakespeare Company

Sarah Ellis is an award-winning producer currently working as Director of Digital Development for the Royal Shakespeare Company to explore new artistic initiatives and partnerships. The latest partnership for the RSC is the Audience of the Future Live Performance Demonstrator funded by Innovate UK—a consortium consisting of arts organizations, research partners, and technology companies to explore the future of performances and real-time immersive experiences.

Graham Drury

Director UKI FSI, Google

I started my career as a consultant / developer and spent a long time working with key market infrastructure providers such as Cedel / Clearstream and Liffe before moving to technology providers. I am now responsible for Google Cloud's sales and go to market activities across the UK financial services landscape.

Izabella Koukorava

Head of Product, Product Operations & Transformation Strategy, Sky

Since joining Sky (a Comcast company) in 2018, Izabella has been leading her international product teams’ efforts to build global and/ internationalise next-gen TV streaming products for the European markets, contributing to customer and revenue growth targets. Her current focus is on product operations and transformation strategy.

Max Hemingway

Distinguished Technologist, DXC Technology

An experienced and qualified Technologist with over 35 years in the IT industry, specialising in designing and delivering enterprise-level solutions to meet business requirements and achieve tangible outcomes. Extensive expertise in the design and deployment of applications, systems, and enterprise architectures to support both cloud-based and traditional business services. Currently serving as a Distinguished Technologist collaborating with clients from C-Level executives to business sponsors and technical teams. Skilled in providing strategic guidance, industry trend analysis, and innovative solutions to enable clients' digital transformation journeys. Chartered IT Professional (CITP). Fellow of the BCS (FBCS) and a member of the BCS Fellows Technical Advisory Group (FTAG).

Puisy Luong

Programme Specialist, TechSkills

Puisy has worked as an assessor and skills coach, as well as in quality assurance and employer engagement. She holds a BSc Hons in Computer Science and joins TechSkills with extensive experience of apprenticeships, coaching and stakeholder management. 

Charlie Maconochie

SVP Public Sector, Adarga

Sara Lillywhite

Client Lead for the NHS , IBM

Rich Cassidy

Impact and Partnership Development Manager, Exeter University

Alex Ball

Head Of Commercial, 4Secure

Andy Bidmead

Project Professional, Police Digital Service

UCL

UCL is a diverse global community of world-leading academics, students, partners and alumni. Founded in 1826, it has more than 50,000 students from 150 countries and over 16,000 staff. Named The Times and The Sunday Times University of the Year 2024, UCL is consistently ranked among the world’s top 10 universities.

John Botterill

Non-Executive Director & Chair of the Board, C3IA Solutions Limited

Alan Mak MP

Shadow Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Member of Parliament

Ketan Bhadekar

Director of Technology & Platforms, VE3

Clare White

Riverbed

David Price

Senior Account Director for Secure Government – MOD and Primes and GSI Partners, Exponential-e Group

David has worked with techUK for over 10 Years and is currently a member of the techUK AI and ML Working Group, and the techUK Cloud Leadership Committee.

Carl Osborne

Managing Director, IntaForensics

Nathan Brown

Autodesk

Benjamin Manby

Head of Data-Driven Marketing, techUK

Benjamin works as Head of Data-Driven Marketing at techUK and leads the work on developing, identifying, and scoping of marketing automation and optimisation opportunities.

Sharon Clews

Director, People and Talent Management, techUK

Sharon is the Director, People and Talent Management for techUK and is responsible for our people strategy.  

Stuart McKean

Chairman, Nine23

Anthony Fowler

Commercial/Strategic Manager, NEC Software Solutions

Polly Scully CBE

Senior Counsellor - UK Government, Palantir Technologies UK

Chris Knox

Global Director, Financial Services , Microsoft

I currently lead on Microsoft's regulatory strategy and global engagement with regulators and customers on existing and forthcoming Technology policy such as DORA and the UK CTP. As well as this external facing remit, I also work closely with Engineering, Legal and Marketing teams at Microsoft to help uplift our Technology stack, control environment, contracts and product positioning. I also represent Microsoft as part of various working groups such as those led by US Treasury (Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council (FISSC)), as well as presenting at various international bodies such as the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS).

Praveen Hortikar

Nvidia Ltd

Lindsey Kay

Head of Strategy for BT Security, BT Group

As Head of Strategy for BT Security, I am responsible for defining the future direction and ambition of our commercial Security business across all B2B segments in the UK and globally. This involves reflecting on customer needs, the evolving threat landscape, major trends in the market and our current and future operating models to identify opportunities to further BT Group’s ambition to be the world’s most trusted connector of people, devices and machines.

Vanessa Soames

Social Value Director – Public Sector and Health, Cognizant

Vanessa Soames is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in the digital skills landscape. She has held key roles at KPMG Barclays and Cognizant, where she has been responsible for the recruitment and development of graduates, interns, and apprentices in digital skills. As Social Value Director at Cognizant, Vanessa supports public sector clients in skilling underrepresented groups and designing initiatives to match their priorities. She has championed regional skills initiatives, including the Cognizant Women’s in Technology Leadership masters programme and localised technology training bootcamps.

Andy Martin

Head of EMEA Pre Sales Engineering, Cellebrite

Stephane Père

Managing Director, Evidency

Ben Rankin

Strategic Account Executive, Airbox Systems

Sobanan Narenthiran

CEO, Breakthrough Social Enterprise

Sobanan Narenthiran is a social entrepreneur, technologist, and justice reform advocate, currently serving as the CEO of Breakthrough Social Enterprise. With lived experience of the criminal justice system, Sobanan has transformed his journey into a mission: to bridge the gap between the people of today and the industries of tomorrow.

Jason Tooley

Chief Revenue Office, Veridium

Jason is the Chief Revenue Officer for Veridium. He runs all of the market facing business units and revenue focused activities across the business including Sales, Partnerships/Channel, Marketing and PR.

Stephanie Eden

Head of Global R&T Cooperations and External Funding, Airbus Defence and Space Limited

Rachel Dunn

Principal Consultant, 4OC

Rachel Dunn is a housing specialist with over 10 years’ experience delivering strategic and operational improvements across local government and housing associations. She is a Principal Consultant at 4OC and has worked with clients including Liverpool and Birmingham City Councils, Notting Hill Genesis and Brighter Places, delivering a range of complex change programmes including digital transformation, data strategy development and homelessness service re-design. Rachel has held senior positions including Head of Housing Partnerships and Service Improvement at the London Borough of Lewisham, where she led work across homelessness prevention, temporary accommodation, allocations policy and cross-sector partnerships.

Abigail Rappoport

Executive Coach and Fractional COO, Fiskl

Abigail Rappoport has 30 years executive and leadership experience with the world’s largest tech companies like Expedia Group, Microsoft and Meta as well as co-founding 2 start-ups including an IPO. As an executive coach to CEOs and leaders, she has a strong focus on supporting senior women in both large tech and scale-ups to reach their full potential. She is a strategic advisor and fractional COO to scale-ups and offers pro-bono support to mission-led, non-profit organisations. Abigail has regularly been voted Computer Weekly’s Most Influential Women in UK Tech’s and is on a mission to change the world of work for the better, one leader, and one organisation, at a time.

Harriet Allen

Programme Assistant, Technology and Innovation, techUK

Archie Breare

Policy Manager - Skills & Digital Economy, techUK

Archie Breare joined techUK in September 2022 as the Telecoms Programme intern, and moved into the Policy and Public Affairs team in February 2023.

Margot Stumm

Head of Events and Sponsorship, techUK

Margot joined techUK in September 2022 as the Head of Events and Sponsorship, running the event programme for our flagship events, such as the techUK Annual Dinner, Defence Ethics Summit, Building the Smarter State etc

Daniel Blows

Client Director, Agilisys

Robbie Carroll

Defence Director, Google

Sarah Blundell

COO, CyberHive

As COO, Sarah leads CyberHive’s strategic operations, managing commercial growth, business development, and organisational efficiency, ensuring exceptional service delivery and driving company performance to meet evolving client and market demands.

Joanne Gogerly

Head of Siemens Professional Education UK and the Nordics, Siemens

Joanne Gogerly is Head of Siemens Professional Education for the UK and Northwest Europe, and part of the global Siemens team supporting over 6,500 apprentices worldwide. She leads strategic efforts across early careers and lifelong learning in the UK, working closely with Siemens businesses, education partners, and government bodies to ensure programmes are aligned with national priorities and future workforce needs.

Nick Ford

Director, Defence Portfolio

Dr Justyna Lisinska

Specialist Policy Officer, CORNERSTONE Photonics Innovation Centre

Dr Christina Yan Zhang

CEO, The Metaverse Institute

Christina has 19 years’ experience working with UN leaders, government ministers, universities presidents, and Fortune 500 CEOs on innovation.

Lewis Cannon

Principal, Oliver Wyman

Kevin Hoskins

Managing Director, Q Solution

Stuart Harvey

CEO, Datactics

CEO since 2016, Stuart is a former Reuters programmer, technical engineer, and technical architect. He co-founded market data startup Harco, which sold to NYSE, and is an investor in multiple technology startups and scale-ups.

Fahana Jabin Thankayathil

Technical Writer, Applied Data Science Partners

Iain MacDougall

Director, Head of Sustainability RED Engineering ltd

Sam Leng

Senior Project Manager, Intralink

Project Manager based in Taipei office of Intralink, an international business development & market entry strategy consultancy with a deep specialism in East Asia.

Lee Murray

CEO, Triangulate Distribution Ltd.

Lee Murray, is the owner of two software vendors and a software distribution company and a techUK SME supporter for the last six years working closely with Central and Regional government ensuring SME agenda is actioned. 

Kir Nuthi

Head of AI and Data, techUK

Kir Nuthi is the Head of AI and Data at techUK. 

Richard Beck

Director of Cyber, QA

Richard is an experienced security professional, turned educator, with over 15 years in operational security roles. He is a positive change agent with an innovative, commercial, and collaborative approach.

Lara Stoimenova

CEO and Co-founder, Simulnova Software

Company HQ location: London

Mike Roberts

Head of Innovation, Kahootz

I have for many years worked across different sectors, including health and Life Science. I was invited by NHS Innovation to attend an event in Guangzhou whereas head of innovation at ISeeU Global, we ended up partnering with Guangzhou University on a cancer project. I have also delivered many technical solutions across the NHS. My main skill set is joining the dots across technology and industry to come up with innovative ways to solve issues

Jonathan Flowers

Non-Executive Chair, dxw

David Price

Client Director, Rackspace Technology

Biography

I have worked with the Health Sector for over 20 Years at a Central Government and Local level/ Healthcare is a passion of mine and many of the Projects and Programs I have worked on over the years have been designed to improve patient care as well as save the NHS money so that they would have more to spend on patient care

What you will bring to the Health & Social Care Council and the techUK Health & Social Care programme’s work

A deep knowledge and understanding of the challenges faced at all levels of the Health and Social Care environment across the Country and the Role that Technology does, can and could play to drive healthcare innovation, improvements in Patient Care and redirection of spend away from old and outdated practices to newer more cost efficient ways of delivering better care. My work in this Group could also be supported by my Chairmanship of the Open Data Standards Working Group because open data standards across the Health and Care Sectors could drive improved patient outcomes.

Vinous Ali

Deputy Executive Director, StartUp Coalition

Vinous Ali is Deputy Executive Director at StartUp Coalition. Vinous was previously a Director at Public First and spearheads the policy work on technology and innovation. Public First has recently published a paper on AI based on extensive polling on public attitudes and perceptions. Vinous is a highly respected policy analyst, who is well known in tech policy circles. She was formerly Associate Director for Policy at techUK where she focused on domestic technology policy. Prior to joining techUK, Vinous was the Liberal Democrats Adviser on Home Affairs and Justice and worked on both the 2017 and 2019 General Elections in senior roles.

Jessica Lennard

Senior Director Global Data Privacy and AI initiatives, VISA

Jessica is a Senior Director in Visa’s Global Strategic Initiatives team leading on Data and Artificial Intelligence. Her work focuses on responsible AI (policy, regulation and ethics); privacy, data protection and data sharing; and consumer empowerment. She has over ten years’ corporate affairs experience across highly regulated, technology-driven sectors including digital and cyber, data and AI, telecoms, cleantech and fintech. During this time Jessica has advised political parties, businesses (start-up to large scale global enterprises), consultancies, trade bodies, think tanks and NGOs.

Guy Lucchi

Managing Director Healthcare, System C

Biography

Guy leads System C’s healthcare division which is a British provider of health and social care EPR solutions in the UK one of the largest suppliers of software to both the NHS and local government.  Guy is passionate about the power of digital enabled change to improve patient outcomes and workforce experience.  Previously joint Digital Innovation Director for Health Innovation Manchester and Chief Digital Officer for the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership where he created the digital maturity framework which is now being rolled out nationally.  He has an impressive background as a digital leader, with a proven track record for shaping and delivering some of the largest and most complex digital enabled transformation programmes in healthcare.

What will you bring to the Health and Social Care Council?

From a company perspective, I will bring the voice of System C, which is one of the largest British software suppliers to the NHS and local government.  Our EPR software is in 30 Acute Trusts, and we have software deployed in all but 1 Trust nationally.  From a social care perspective, our case management software supports over 60% of Adult and Social care organisations.
From a personal perspective, I bring a breadth and depth of digital healthcare expertise earned over a 30-year career in both industry and NHS.  I have shaped and led some of the largest and most complex digital health transformation programmes.  This has taught me to focus on the ‘problem’ before the technology and that the solution to the ‘problem always involves people, process, cultural and commissioning change.  I have experience of all aspects of digital transformation, from strategy, operating model design, architecture, and scaled delivery.
I fully appreciate the ‘wicked’ problems faced in our health and care system and the need to pivot from reactive models of care focused on disease treatment to more proactive models that have a blend of prevention and early detection.  To make this shift we need to understand the “whole person” and join up data across traditional organisational silos.  I recognise that digital is the key enabler to make this change, but only if accompanied by the requisite people, process and culture change required to win the hearts and minds of busy frontline staff. 

What would you want to help drive forward as part of techUK’s work in health and social care?

To achieve the seismic shift required to address the ‘wicked problems’ in health and care, it’s critical we harness the innovation and power of industry.  As the largest British software provider to health and social care, I would like to be part of championing the voice and ideas of industry with a particular focus on the following areas.
• EPR transformation: As one of the largest EPR providers to the NHS and with our EPR modules such as pharmacy, electronic prescribing, electronic observations, and maternity platforms deployed in all but 1 Trust nationally we have a significant role to play in delivering the front line digitsation ambition.
• Maternity transformation: Our BadgerNet platforms runs all but one of the neonatal units across the UK and by the end of this year our platform will be managing over 50% of UK births with 200K mums using our PHR app every year.   As such we have a pivotal role to play in the implementation of the Ockenden report and the transformation of maternity services.
• Health and Social Care integration: Our unique footprint in health and social care provides an amazing opportunity ‘join up care’ including identifying people in social care that are likely to deteriorate and be ‘stepped up’ to health care and to accelerate discharge from health back in to social care.
• Digital Maturity: As the thought leader behind the digital maturity framework now being rolled out nationally, I’m uniquely placed to support industry colleagues on the importance and use of the framework.

Adrian Leer

Managing Director, Triad Group PLC

Michael Green

Managing Director, UK and Ireland, Databricks

Michael Green, UK&I Managing Director at Databricks, shares his thoughts on why investment in training and upskilling initiatives will be key for successful transformation, and securing the UK’s position as a global leader in the AI race.  

Ginevra Pedrotti

Business Development Manager for Central Government, Canon

Ginevra studied law in Italy and then successfully completed her masters in business and law at the Queen Mary University of London.

Ritesh Nandurkar

Digital Marketing Associate, VE3

Wendy Shearer

Pulsant

Martin Smith

SAP

Jay Chinnadorai

techUK Vice President of Operations, Senior Board Advisor, Informetis

Jay Chinnadorai is a Senior Board Advisor at Informetis Europe and Japan. Informetis is an AI based IoT solutions provider focused on the energy and smart health sectors. Jay is also Founder and Managing Director of Sumtotal, a strategy, product and business development consultancy. Sumtotal was established in 2004 and provides pragmatic and effective customer-centric solutions in the converging sectors of Smart Energy, IoT, Mobile and Digital Media solutions. In addition, Jay is a Crown Representative at the Cabinet Office.

Simon Windsor

Healthcare and Life Sciences Sales Manager, Intel

Duncan White

Senior Communications & Marketing Director, AtlasEdge Data Centres

Jeremy Donaldson

Managing Director, FSI, UK&I, DXC Technology

Jeremy Donaldson is a highly experienced executive with an impressive track record of international success at the intersection of financial services and technology.  A strategy consultant by training, a former banker and former executive at IBM Global Services, he has spent 30+ years in client-facing consulting and general management leadership positions in North America, Southeast Asia, and the United Kingdom.  He has owned significant P&Ls, grown businesses, closed multi-million-dollar and multi-party deals, managed major business transformation programmes, held people management roles, and driven new business initiatives. 

Mike Denis

Chief Executive, Akrivia Health

Cheryl Peet

Learning & Development Team Lead, Made Tech

Jennifer Jiang

Executive Director, JP Morgan Chase

Sir William Touche

techUK Vice President of Finance

William Touche is a former London Senior Partner and Vice Chair at Deloitte LLP where he specialised in the TMT and consumer sectors. In a career as auditor and advisor spanning four decades he worked with many of the leading international companies in these sectors.

Anna McChesney-Gordon

Chief Strategy Officer, Social Value Portal

Alex Harvey

Co-founder, RiVR

Alex Harvey has vast experience in the gaming world and immersive videography and is a recognised speaker on all things XR. He is the Creative Director and Co-founder of RiVR (Reality in Virtual Reality Limited) who over the last five years have established a global brand in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality adoption. Based in Warwickshire the Company provides software and hardware solutions in training and education across all industries with a particular interest in blue light emergency services. 

Sarah Shepherd

Head of All-IP Industry Liaison, techUK

Yatin Mahandru

VP and Head of Public Sector and NHS, UK & Ireland, Cognizant

Keith Tsui

CEO, Medwise

Hugh Milward

General Manager, Corporate External and Legal Affairs, Microsoft UK

Hugh Milward leads Corporate, External and Legal for Microsoft in the UK, sitting on the UK management board.  His focus includes work to help organisations overcome legal and regulatory hurdles to their technology adoption and transformation, managing some of the complex geo-political issues relating to tech, and working to ensure no one is left behind from the onward march of technology. Hugh’s background is in politics, corporate affairs, and reputation management, working for some of the world’s highest-profile brands. Hugh is a Board Director of the New West End Company, Chairing its Public Affairs committee, and a member of the Board of Directors of BritishAmerican Business.  Hugh sits on the SE Council of the CBI and on the Advisory Board of the Institute of Coding.

Alistair Tebbit

Head of International Programmes, RELX

Alistair has twenty years’ experience working in public policy. For the last twelve he has worked for RELX, the UK-based technology company that employs over 35,000 people worldwide. He leads RELX’s engagement with policymakers across various jurisdictions, including the UK, focussing on digital economy issues.  

Maria Tsarkova

co-founder of Solid Water and Head of Growth at Ooredoo Fintech

Rachel King

Employer Partnerships Director, TechSkills

Passionate about connecting people together to make meaningful connections, Rachel is the main contact for the employers who contribute in such a valuable way to TechSkills. 

Richard Clarke

Director, Fivium

Having worked in the technology sector for 25 years, the last 20 of which have been focused on working with UK and international governments, I have held senior leadership positions at 1E, Huddle, SAP and Objective Corporation, as well as being the SME Vice-Chair of the Central Government Council from 2019-2023. 

Emma Gooderham

Cloud Gateway Limited

Ajay Chauhan

Sales Engineer & Higher Education - Tech Lead, CrowdStrike

Ajay Chauhan is an accomplished cybersecurity professional with a diverse background spanning customer engagement, technical solutions, and strategic leadership. He currently serves at CrowdStrike, a leading cybersecurity firm, where he leverages his extensive expertise to protect organisations from cyber threats. Based in Reading, UK, Ajay has cultivated a robust network of over 500 professional connections. His career reflects a commitment to advancing cybersecurity practices and delivering innovative solutions to complex challenges.

Amelie Hayes

Junior Communications Manager, techUK

Amelie is the Junior Communications Manager at techUK, where she supports the delivery of both internal and external communications to strengthen the brand and ensure a consistent company voice.

Noyan Songur

Elm Europe

Emma Kendrew

Technology Lead, UK, Ireland and Africa, Accenture

Emma Kendrew leads Accenture’s Technology business in the UK, Ireland and Africa. Emma has over 20 years of experience driving technology-powered business transformation with clients in retail, resources, government, and financial services. Throughout her tenure at Accenture she has played a lead role in establishing new centres to drive innovation, and built new practices including automation, AI, cloud and full-stack engineering.

Nicole Kayode

VP Health & Care – Product Management, Advanced

Gerard Donohue

Group CTO, Telent Technology Services

As CTO at Telent since early 2015, Gerard provides extensive knowledge of the current and emerging technologies trends required to deliver digital transformation initiatives such as Industry 4.0 and beyond.

Wenbing Yao

Vice President, Business Development and Partnerships, Huawei Technologies (UK)

Wenbing Yao joined Huawei UK in 2008 and took up the role of VP Business Development and Partnerships in April 2018. Since 2017, Wenbing has been with Huawei Corporate Elite Program on end to end network transformation. Between 2012 and 2016, Wenbing was the Director of Strategy and Marketing, responsible for developing the mid and long term business strategy for Huawei UK; driving strategic business development in areas including 5G, IoT, Smart City, Big Data, Media and Broadcast, Data Centre IT and infrastructure; leading joint innovations with key telecom customers and organising market communication activities. Before 2012, Wenbing held various positions in a global account in Huawei, leading the solution marketing and industry and research collaborations team.

Ram Rajaraman

Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry Leader, Quantexa

Sharon Backer-Holst

CEO, The Blockhouse Technology Ltd

Sharon Backer-Holst is the CEO of The Blockhouse Technology Ltd, a company specialising in building trust through technology.  Its specialist areas include blockchain technology for a digital civilisation and trusted computing to underpin digital identity solutions. Having worked in the tech industry for over 40 years, including  10 years in start-up companies, Sharon joined TBTL in 2024 to take the company to the next stage in its commercial journey.

Louise Wall

Managing Director, e18 Innovation

With over 20 years of experience in the tech and healthcare sectors, Louise has been at the forefront of driving transformative change, leveraging technology to improve operational efficiencies and patient outcomes.

Elizabeth Patterson

Senior Policy and Program Manager, Seagate

Elizabeth Patterson is a Senior Program and Policy Manager at Seagate Technology, with a strategic focus on photonics innovation and commercialisation. Elizabeth plays a pivotal role in shaping Seagate’s engagement with UK and EU photonics ecosystems, driving initiatives that bridge research and industry across quantum, AI, and semiconductor application

Stephanie Stasey

Principal Customer Success Account Manager, Microsoft

Biography

I have been working in and with the leadership teams of social care organisations, mental health organisations, NHS England, NHS trusts and ICBs for over five years to accelerate adoption of automation, AI and technologies with a direct impact on frontline services, population health and virtual care. I have worked across the public, private and third sector in multi-disciplinary teams to empower users and rapidly adopt technology. I read widely on technology, and find ways to implement this to directly impact patients and people supported by social care services. I have an in depth knowledge of mental health services, social care services and work closely with CCIOs across the NHS on transformation and enablement programmes.

What will you bring to the Health and Social Care Council?

I have breadth of knowledge, immense passion and demonstratable skills in delivery of technology to frontline services. My passion for utilising AI, trusted research environments with clinical trials, and tech enablement at scale (including on nhs.net to 1.6 million users) means I have skills relevant to the questions many health and social care organisations are asking about how they embrace AI for population health management, virtual care and similar.

What would you want to help drive forward as part of techUK’s work in health and social care?

I use technology to make the world a better place. Having experience across health and social care and having worked in domestic abuse and orphanage charities too giving me a deep knowledge of social deprivation and societal factors relating to health and wellbeing outcomes. I am certified in AI technologies as well as delivering in frontline services.

John Hiorns

Director – C4I Programmes and Customer Liaison, General Dynamics Mission Systems

Valérie Letellier

Area Business Operations Manager North EMEA, Oracle

Valerie Letellier is based out of Reading, England, United Kingdom and works at Oracle as Senior Area Business Operations, EMEA North, Middle East, Africa, Turkey & South Europe.

Liz Ashall-Payne

Chief Executive Officer, ORCHA

Richard Davies

Country Managing Partner, Netcompany

Will Goddard

Managing Director, Big Health

Tricia Blatherwick

Chief Commercial Officer, AutogenAI

Company location: London, UK

Dritan Kaleshi

Director of Technology - 5G and Digital Infrastructure, Digital Catapult

Dritan is the Director of 5G Technology and Digital Infrastructure at Digital Catapult, with over 30 years of experience in communication networks, distributed systems, and interoperability. He leads the Future Networks and Digital Infrastructure programmes, driving innovation in advanced communication systems and their adoption in enterprise networks in the UK. Dritan is a founder of SONIC Labs and the UK Telecommunication Innovation Network (UKTIN), where he shapes the UK's future R&D capabilities in networking systems.   

Esther O'Sullivan

Managing Director, Zaizi

Biography

I have worked in the health sector for over 30 years. As Head of Digital at the BMJ, I created its first startup investment arm, which still supports emerging health tech. I mentor a health startup, guiding it from the initial seed stage to readiness for scaling up.

Kamal Bal

Director of Digital, Ministry of Justice

Asa Caton

Digital Asset Solutions

Sonia Kumar

Labour MP for Dudley

Sonia Kumar is the Labour MP for Dudley, and has been an MP continually since 4 July 2024. Sonia is also a member of the Business and Trade Committee.

Andy Theedom

Director, PwC

Fiona Dawson

Director, Mayden

Fiona is Director at Mayden, the company behind iaptus, the market leading electronic health record (EHR) system which is used by over 100 NHS organisations organisations, covering over two-thirds of adult NHS Talking Therapy services. Fiona leads on the iaptus product development, features and partnerships. She holds a first class degree in Applied Computing and is in her final year of a part-time Masters in Healthcare Data at Cambridge University. As a BCS Fellow, Chartered IT Professional, CHCIO and FEDIP Leading Practitioner she is a leader in the health informatics profession and a product specialist. Shortlisted for Innovator of the Year in 2017, Fiona is a passionate advocate for what technology can do to support healthcare and holds a number of positions on national working groups that further key agendas, including interoperability.

Stephen Ferry

Chief Executive Officer, IEG4

James Hodgson

Opencast Software

Gavin Muncaster

Director of Digital, Southampton City Council

Manish Garg

Managing Director, VE3

Company location: Slough, UK

Miriam Souissi

Vice-Chair, PwC

Charlotte Lewis

Principal Associate , Mills & Reeve

An award winning commercial and technology lawyer at leading law firm Mills & Reeve; recognised as a Leading Associate in the Legal 500 2024 for my work in the health sector. I advise health and care organisations on legal, commercial, and strategic issues relating to commissioning, contracting and collaborating.

Nargis Hassani

Head of Legal - Regulatory, Digital & Emerging Technology, Ocado Group

Charlotte Holloway

Charlotte is a former political adviser and has previously worked at Zoom Video Communications, the RSA, techUK and The Work Foundation.

Indi Singh

Digital Health Lead, PwC

Paul McKean

Director FE, skills and training, Jisc

Paul McKean is the Director of further education, skills and training at Jisc. Paul provides Jisc with strategic direction around its work in Further Education and Skills (FES). He works with colleagues across Jisc, funders from the four nations, sector bodies and learning providers, to ensure Jisc helps its members and their staff, utilise digital, data and technology. In addition, Paul leads the training team which supports FE and skills, HE and research members with their digital, data and technology CPD needs. While Paul has been an Association of Colleges Beacon award assessor for eleven years.

Dr Nicola Hodson

techUK Deputy President, Chair, IBM UK&I

Dr Nicola Hodson was appointed Chair, IBM UK and Ireland, in January 2025. Prior to taking on this role, Dr Hodson served as Chief Executive IBM UK and Ireland, a position she held for two years.

Adrian Field

Director of Market Development, OneID

Company HQ location: Stratford-upon-Avon

Simon Corbin

Data Centre Manager, Aptum

Emma Fryer

Director Public Policy Europe, CyrusOne

Pramod Nahata

Director, Turbosoft Limited

Pramod Nahata is the Director of Turbosoft Limited, a UK-registered technology consultancy with delivery operations in India. With over 25 years of experience in software engineering, Pramod works closely with biotech, life sciences, and longevity-focused organisations on building robust, scalable digital platforms. His expertise spans scientific software development, data engineering, AI-driven systems, and workflow automation for R&D and operational teams. He is currently providing his services as a Fractional CTO to a company operating in the longevity sector. Pramod partners with founders, technical leaders, and research teams to translate complex requirements into reliable, production-grade solutions.

Jon Rimmer

Chief Experience Officer, Mercator Digital

I’m the Chief Experience Officer at Mercator Digital and am responsible for the non-developer professions, namely; Product (Product & Delivery Managers, Business Analysts), Insight (Data Specialists and Researchers), and Design (Service, Interaction & Content).

Anita Allott

CMO, Nquiringminds

John Penrose

MP

John Penrose was elected MP for Weston-super-Mare in 2005. He is currently Chair of Conservative Policy Forum, and has held a variety of posts since he was elected including PPS to Oliver Letwin, Shadow Business Minister, Tourism & Heritage Minister, Government Whip, Constitution Minister and Northern Ireland Minister.

Ashley Gregory

Account Director, Telent

A ‘C’ level influencer with considerable contact portfolio in the Higher Education & Telco industry, Ashley comes from a highly trained and structured background in business development, account management, training and project management. Ashley is actively engaged with, and has good, longstanding relationships within Russell Group universities, ISP’s & technology vendors at all levels.

John Cullen

Strategic Marketing Director Digital Identity and Cybersecurity, Thales

Patrick Hutchings

UK & Australia Sector Lead for Secure Innovation & Advisory, CGI

James Dunn

Director of Government & Regulatory Affairs and Public Policy, DXC Technology

James leads the global Government and Regulatory Affairs function at DXC Technology. With 130,000 people in over 70 countries, DXC helps leading organizations run their mission-critical IT systems and business operations. James is focused on demonstrating DXC’s capabilities to drive digital transformation especially in the UK public sector, where DXC has decades of experience. He joined DXC after five years in the UK Civil Service, leading teams working on trade negotiations, crisis management, and social policy.

His current work seeks to understand how advanced technologies can be used to address the challenges facing government today. In previous roles, James spent five years leading policy teams in the charity sector with a notable focus on access to education and technology. Outside of work, James volunteers on a number of boards including Disability Sports Wales and coaches a LGBT+ rugby team. He is especially motivated by removing barriers to participation in any walk of life.

Eva Perkins

Global Director, Nology Consulting

Eva serves as a Global Director for a workforce solutions consultancy, bringing cross‑sector leadership experience to building inclusive tech talent pathways to global organisations. She is dedicated to creating opportunity, forming strong partnerships across all sectors, and delivering measurable results for employers and communities.

Mark Burton

UK Health & Social Care Lead , Virgin Media O2 Business

Biography

I started my career in the acute clinical care setting working direct for the NHS. 30 years later my passion remains focused in providing the best care for patients across the healthcare ecosystem. Following my time in frontline NHS I moved into the commercial medical devices field. Spending 17 years within patient monitoring both in clinical and research areas. I also spent 2.5yrs as a Civil Servant with Crown Commercial Service specifically for the Health Sector, supporting the NHS gain routes to market for common goods and services. In 2022 I started my current role as the UK Health & Social Care Lead for Virgin Media O2, I lead the strategy & vertical focus of the Health Sector for Public Sector & Central Government, ensuring the private sector are knowledgeable about health and social care challenges, ensuring we build the right digital solutions to support their digital transformation ambitions.

What you will bring to the Health & Social Care Council and the techUK Health & Social Care programme’s work

My vision for Virgin Media O2 Business is to ensure we Connect – Protect – Empower NHS Staff & Patients, delivering best in class solutions to support patient care, tackle health inequalities and improve staff working environments supported by the use of digital technology. My background and experience enables me to take a holistic approach to understand the needs of the Health & Social Care ecosystem, from an organisational and frontline care perspective. I feel my knowledge from my time at CCS gives me great understanding of the procurement challenges and complexities faced from the customer I’m keen to join the Health & Social Care council at techUK to keep abreast of the heartbeat within health & social care and bring a further dynamic to the group from a digital provider point of view, especially now Virgin Media and O2 have come together.

Jamie Whysall

Principal, Healthcare, Netcompany

Biography

I am a Principal at Netcompany, currently leading the Healthcare go-to-market strategy in the UK. My background includes a leadership role in engagement across the Wider Public Sector as part of the Cabinet Office Joint Venture, Crown Hosting. Prior to this, I spent 15 years of my career at Fujitsu, where I lead business development within the Healthcare and Local Government verticals. My academic achievements include holding an Executive MBA from Cranfield University.
Beyond my professional roles, I am deeply committed to making a positive impact in society. I engage in the tech industry through my active techUK membership; furthermore, I am involved in my local community, previously serving as a local councillor and school governor, and for the last seven years I’ve proudly served as a trustee for Homeless Link, where I have supported in enhancing the case management solution for homeless organisations to improve outcomes for their users.

What will you bring to the Health and Social Care Council?

I am passionate about the role that technology can have in improving the delivery of Health and Social Care in the UK – not simply technology for technology sakes but pragmatic, practical and sustainable transformation that gives benefits to patients, clinicians and the tax payer.  I bring varied experiences across small and large technology organisations working with all aspects of health and social care from primary care, secondary care, social care and the broader health ecosystem of life sciences organisations.
As a former member of the techUK Local Public Services committee I have a clear understanding of the role that techUK can play in supporting customers and industry alike and will bring an inquisitive and challenging mindset of ensuring we make a tangible and practical difference to the tech industry and to the Health and Social Care sector in the UK.  I will champion and be a spokesperson for the work of the Council to inspire both industry partners and Health and Social Care customers to engage, collaborate and value the outputs of the Council.

What would you want to help drive forward as part of techUK’s work in health and social care?

I am particularly struck and impressed by techUK’s power to convene, its ability to bring together tech industry with the public sector to drive collaboration, engagement and thought leadership.  I would want to drive forward techUK’s work in championing not only technology solutions but the power of consortia, ecosystems of organisations that are working together across the public and private sector to bring improvements in some of the most challenging areas of health and social care.  As a Council it is easy (and indeed necessary) to establish some quick wins in terms of driving the agenda forward but we must also be focussed on some of the more challenging problems facing the Health and Social Care sector today and form a point of view on the role of technology in moving the system forward.

Alex Habachi

Actr-AI

Neil Seabury

Head of Technology & Government CTO, BT

Ray Robinson

Director of Operational Technology, NCC Group

Ray has over 30 years’ experience in the Software and Cyber Security industry advising clients on implementing effective strategies in Agile and waterfall project delivery streams, including security and penetration testing.   More recently, he’s become and OT specialist working in the Energy, Regulation, Public, Engineering and Finance sector across a 20 year span. In his role at NCC Group, Ray is advising numerous UK Government departments and industrial sector clients on their digital transformation, ICS/OT, cloud, and Cyber Security programmes. 

Ruby Motabhoy

Senior Lead, National Security, Plexal

Allan Bosley

Head of Culture and Management Information, Ark Data Centres Limited

Rory Daniels

Head of Emerging Technology and Innovation, techUK

Rory joined techUK in June 2023 after three years in the Civil Service on its Fast Stream leadership development programme.

James Duez

CEO and co-founder, Rainbird

James Duez is a technologist, entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Rainbird, a leading intelligent automation scale-up. 

Jon Hammant

Vice-Chair, AWS

Kurt Erik Lindqvist

CEO, London Internet Exchange

Company location: Peterborough, UK

Ben Ridgeway

Head of Industry Practice - Financial & Professional Services, Nology Consulting Ltd. (part of Opus Talent Solutions Group)

I began my career Asia working in the inter-bank market for BGC Partners (Cantor Fitzgerald). Over 5 years my focus in Asia and then London was on currency derivatives, trading billions daily between major investment banks. From here, I moved to the banking side with Denmark’s Saxo Bank. My coverage here for 5 years crossed a huge range of asset classes. Across these 10 years in the markets, the interaction with technology was high and its importance was paramount (at one point I had 7 screens!). I moved to Nology in 2019 to begin providing technology workforce solutions to banks, insurers and other financial services firms, as well as consultancies that deal with them. I run the practice here that looks after our finance clients and looks to help them overcome digital skills gap and diversity challenges over the long term.

Jarek Sygitowicz

Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Authologic

Rupen Kalsi

Policy Advisor, Policy Impact Unit, UCL Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP)

Cindy van Niekerk

CEO, Umazi

Cindy van Niekerk is the founder and CEO of Umazi, a decentralised business identity platform that simplifies business verification and harnesses AI to streamline compliance. With over a decade in regulatory technology and financial services, she launched Umazi to facilitate access to financial services and global trade. Recent successes include guiding Umazi to winning the Isle of Man’s latest global Innovation Challenge for fintechs, which led to the formation of a cross-island Government-backed digital ID pilot reflecting improvements in national-level compliance.

Daniela Menzky

Co-founder and Chair, Climate Essentials

Daniela Menzky is a serial entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in the corporate sector across diverse industries and business models. Daniela held a number of senior Human Resources & Organisational Strategy roles in major blue chip organisations such as Kodak and Avon Cosmetics before moving into General Management as a Managing Director for HAVI Logistics, the world’s largest privately-owned food service logistics company, as well as small & medium size technology enterprises.

Following her successful corporate career, she co-founded and scaled several companies across Cybersecurity, IoT Communications, and Climate Mitigation. She is co-ceo of ANGOKA, a cyber security company and co-founder and chair of Climate Essentials, a startup helping organisations reach net zero via their data-driven multi-stakeholder software solution, Climate Essentials.

Kate Wendelboe and Aurorah Cheney

Director, Strategy & Growth, BT Security

Kate Wendelboe is currently BT Security’s Strategy & Growth Director (alongside Aurorah), a trained executive coach and previously head of Strategy for a portfolio of BT’s smaller businesses. Prior to that, she was Director of BT Media & Broadcast after doing proposition development, business development, and strategy. Before joining BT, Kate was at Reuters working in marketing communications and then journalism. She was one of the team that started Reuters Insider, Reuters’ OTT platform for financial professionals. Kate left Reuters to study for an MBA at Cambridge’s Judge Business School where she specialised in Culture, Arts and Media Management. Kate is married with two sons and, after living in the States, Hong Kong and Switzerland, is now based in London. If she had unlimited free time she would be training for an Ironman Triathlon, learning to code and writing a best selling novel

Alex Roberts

Defence Director, Atos

Chris Berry

Sales Director, IEG4 Group

Shahneila Saeed

Head of Education & Programme Director, UKIE - The Association for UK Interactive Entertainment

Alastair Williamson-Pound

Chief Technology Officer, Mercator Digital

Alastair Williamson-Pound is Chief Technology Officer at Mercator Digital, a UK-based consultancy specialising in digital transformation, AI, and public sector innovation. With over 20 years’ experience spanning government, education, and commercial sectors, Alastair has delivered high-impact programmes for HMRC, the Government Digital Service, and six UK universities. He has secured over £200M in digital delivery contracts and scaled consultancy operations by over 150%, spearheading the expansion into cloud, cyber, and AI services. Alastair is passionate about using technology to improve lives, break down barriers to access, and drive sustainable public service outcomes. A Digital MBA graduate, he combines strategic leadership with hands-on product delivery expertise. He is eager to contribute to TechUK’s mission and support innovation that enhances the quality, inclusivity, and effectiveness of UK education.

Assad Tabet

Senior Vice President Healthcare UKI & Europe, Mastek

Biography

Assad is a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience in the IT and digital health sector. With a remarkable track record, Assad specialises in developing and executing go-to-market strategies, fostering new business opportunities, managing key accounts, and successfully leading digital transformation projects.

Toby Barnard

Managing Director; Public Sector, QA

Kate Fowler

Head of Strategy, Raytheon UK

Julia Kemp

CEO & Founder, Pawpass

Guy Lucchi

Managing Director, System C Healthcare Ltd

Andrew Doran

Enterprise Account Executive, Salesforce

Amelie Soares

Tech & Innovation Intern, techUK

Amelie joined techUK in May 2023 as Tech and Innovation Intern.

Dr Christina Yan Zhang

Chief Executive Officer, The Metaverse Institute

Christina has 19 years’ experience working with leaders of UN, governments, universities, and corporates on education. She represented the interests of one million overseas students studying at 600 UK higher and further education institutions 2008-2012 at National Union of Students. She was China Director 2013-2020 at QS World university rankings, which evaluate 20,000+ universities in 100+ countries.

Hollie Coles

Group Head of Partnerships, UBDS Group

Hollie is currently the Group Head of Partnerships at UBDS, where she leads our relationships with top tech partners like Microsoft, AWS, and other partners they team up with across the market. It’s a role that’s all about people, building trust, connecting ideas, and finding ways to work better together. She loves the mix of collaboration, creativity and purpose it brings, and always tries to lead with empathy and authenticity. 

Martin Taylor

Co-Founder and Deputy CEO, Content Guru

Thomas Webb

Ethical Healthcare

Samiah Anderson

Head of Digital Regulation, techUK

Samiah Anderson is the Head of Digital Regulation at techUK.

Liz Ashall-Payne

Founder and CEO, ORCHA

Liz Ashall-Payne is a dynamic entrepreneur and healthcare innovator renowned for her pioneering work in digital health. With a blend of visionary leadership and technical expertise, she has carved a significant niche in transforming healthcare delivery through technology. As the founder and CEO of ORCHA (Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Applications), Liz has led the charge in revolutionizing the way digital health apps are evaluated and utilized within healthcare systems worldwide. Her passion for empowering both patients and healthcare professionals with reliable, safe, and effective digital tools has been the driving force behind ORCHA's success. Liz's career trajectory has been marked by a relentless commitment to bridging the gap between traditional healthcare and cutting-edge technology. Her innovative approach has earned her numerous accolades, including recognition as one of the top 50 influential women in tech by Forbes. Beyond her entrepreneurial pursuits, Liz is a sought-after speaker and advocate for digital health literacy and accessibility. She actively engages in initiatives aimed at fostering innovation and collaboration within the healthcare industry, cementing her status as a leading figure in the digital health revolution. With a steadfast dedication to improving healthcare outcomes through innovation, Liz Ashall-Payne continues to push boundaries and inspire change in the ever-evolving landscape of digital health.

Robert Richardson

Professor of Robotics, University of Leeds

 Professor Robert Richardson leads the Real Robotics team at the University of Leeds. He is an expert in real-world robotic systems operating in the diverse environments of air, land and underwater. Rob has played a key role in the development of the Smart Machines Strategy 2035, created by the Robotics Growth Partnership. He is Director for the UK RAS STEPS programme to develop skills in RAS technicians, and is Director of Impact for RESCu-M2, the UK’s National Centre for Robotics, AI, Automation and Smart Machine Enabled Circular Manufacturing and Material Recovery.  He is also Innovation Director for Acuity Robotics, that make robots to inspect magnetic infrastructure. 

Jennifer Eze

Software Engineering Apprentice

Tim Coney

Market Engagement Director , Capita

Biography

I am a Market Engagement Director in Capita’s Health, Education and Welfare team. My focus is working with NHS organisations (nationally, regionally and locally) to understand system challenges, help align Capita’s capability and foster new relationships.

Steve Clark

CEO, Cambridge Sensoriis

Zaizi

Karen Senior

Strategic Client Director NHS, Oracle

Biography

I have a multifaceted career as a Senior Strategic Client Director at Oracle this is complemented by my strong clinical background, which uniquely equips me to bridge the gap between the healthcare and technology sectors.
After qualifying as a Radiographer, I worked in clinical practice for a number of years then moved into management in a private diagnostics unit within UCLH.  After graduating with an MBA from Imperial I moved into Industry working for such as GE in their European Healthcare IT division and with Systems Integrators and EPR providers in Community and Mental Health and the Healthcare Technology Industry supporting Local Authorities and Social Care.  This experience has allowed me to intimately understand the challenges and intricacies of healthcare operations, data management, and patient care. My clinical background instilled a deep appreciation for the critical role that technology plays in improving patient outcomes and streamlining healthcare processes.

What will you bring to the Health and Social Care Council?

I have a multifaceted career as a Senior Strategic Client Director at Oracle this is complemented by my strong clinical background, which uniquely equips me to bridge the gap between the healthcare and technology sectors.
After qualifying as a Radiographer, I worked in clinical practice for a number of years then moved into management in a private diagnostics unit within UCLH.  After graduating with an MBA from Imperial I moved into Industry working for such as GE in their European Healthcare IT division and with Systems Integrators and EPR providers in Community and Mental Health and the Healthcare Technology Industry supporting Local Authorities and Social Care.  This experience has allowed me to intimately understand the challenges and intricacies of healthcare operations, data management, and patient care. My clinical background instilled a deep appreciation for the critical role that technology plays in improving patient outcomes and streamlining healthcare processes.

What would you want to help drive forward as part of techUK’s work in health and social care?

Passionate about "digital transformation" in healthcare the comprehensive digitization and integration of healthcare processes, from patient care at the bedside to administrative functions supporting the delivery of healthcare services across providers.
• Digital Health Records (EHR/EMR): At the bedside, digital records facilitate real-time data access, reduce errors, and enable seamless sharing of information across departments and organizations.
• Clinical Decision Support: Tools that provide clinical decision support, helping with informed decisions about patient care.
• Linking Health and Social Care: Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring allows patients follow-up care, consultations, and monitoring from the comfort of their homes, reducing hospital readmissions and improving the overall patient experience.
• Revenue Cycle Management: Utilising technology for efficient revenue cycle management helping with budgeting, planning and cost allocation.
• Inventory and Supply Chain Management: Managing medical supplies and inventory helping ICS’s hospitals and clinics maintain the right levels of supplies, reducing waste and ensuring the availability of critical items when needed.
• Data Analytics and: Data analytics tools enable healthcare organizations to derive insights from the wealth of data collected throughout the patient journey. This data can inform clinical decisions, operational improvements, and strategic planning.
• Integration of Systems: Interoperability standards and Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) facilitate data sharing among the different healthcare providers and systems.
The NHS has embarked on this journey, it is incumbent upon Industry to facilitate and support them our expertise and technology to improve patient care across the health ecosystem.

Tony Lavender

Partner, Plum Consulting

Cluster 3 Chair Tony Lavender is a Partner at Plum Consulting.

Manish Garg

Managing Director, VE3

Manish Garg is the Managing Director at VE3, where he combines his roles as an entrepreneur, investor, strategist, and technologist to drive the company forward. With a deep-rooted passion for innovation and a keen eye for strategic growth opportunities, Manish excels in navigating complex business landscapes and transforming ideas into tangible success. His leadership at VE3 is marked by a commitment to excellence and a proven track record of achieving remarkable growth. Manish’s approach is characterized by his adeptness in merging technology with business strategies, making him a pivotal figure in the industry and a respected leader among his peers.

Chris Cheeseman - Vice-Chair

Head of Spectrum Policy, BT

Chris works in BT’s Networks division where he leads on spectrum policy and related regulatory issues for BT/EE. He has in-depth experience of wireless communications and the associated national and international spectrum issues. He has participated in international work on spectrum harmonisation in ITU, CEPT and other industry groups and leads with Ofcom and Government on a wide range of spectrum and regulatory issues for BT, including participation in Ofcom’s spectrum auctions and regulatory consultations related to wireless and spectrum.   Chris joined BT as a graduate in 1985. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the UK Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET). 

Bruce Stephenson

SVP Development Management, Vantage Data Centers

Robin Ghurbhurun

UK Managing Director Further Education and Skills, Jisc

An experienced C-Suite executive serving the Further Education and Skills sector over four decades. The UK Executive lead for Jisc’s Further Education and skills policy, member engagement, artificial intelligence and advice & training services for both further and higher education. Leads on Jisc’s strategy for building the digital leadership capacity within FE, HE and Skills institutions whilst also leading on the strategic engagement for FE and Skills with UK Government funders. Robin also leads on collaboration with other relevant agencies and digital suppliers.

Gary Richardson

TXP

Caoimhe Thornton

Director, Capgemini

​​​​​​​University of Southampton​​​​​​​

Richard Clarke

Director, Fivium

Richard has worked within the technology sector for over 20 years, the last 16 of which have been focused on working with UK government, Richard has held senior leadership positions at 1E, Huddle, SAP and Objective Corporation. 

Matt Fletcher

CEO, Co-founder, Fivium

I began my career as a software engineer, working closely with public sector organisations and seeing first-hand both the potential and the frustrations of technology in that environment. Too often, systems were complex, expensive, and delivered little real value to the people relying on them.

Wendy Parks

UK Health Tech Lead, AWS, Amazon Web Services UK

Mark Jow

Technology Evangelist EMEA, Gigamon

Linda Wales

Regional Sales Manager, Central Government, Splunk, a Cisco company

SJ Green

Strategic Technology Advisor | AI for National Security, Defence & Emerging Technology, KPMG

Emma Smethurst

Head of Commercial, Etch

Company HQ location: Southampton

Doniya Soni-Clark

Associate Director of External Affairs, techUK

Doniya Soni-Clark is Associate Director of External Affairs at techUK, where she leads the organisation's relationships with key political stakeholders and ensures the voice of the UK tech sector is heard loud and clear - in Westminster, Whitehall, and beyond. She is responsible for shaping techUK's political engagement strategy and representing members' interests to media, translating complex tech policy into compelling narratives that cut through.

Adam Railton

Identity & Access Management Lead, Condatis

Adam Railton is Condatis’ Identity & Access Management Lead for the Retail sector, bringing more than two decades of sales, account management, and advisory expertise to the stage.

Laura Bishop

Digital Sector Lead, AI & Cyber Security, British Standards Institute

Laura Bishop is a Human Factors Cyberpsychologist. With a PhD in human vulnerabilities to cyber attacks and research in both human-robot and human-computer interaction, Laura is highly experienced on the psychological and societal impacts of technology. Laura works for the British Standards Institution supporting the development of standards around the safe, secure and reliable use of AI and cyber systems. Laura is also currently undertaking a secondment within UK Government as their Socio-technical Aspects of AI Fellow. As an Honorary Research Associate of Cardiff University, Laura advocates their continued exploration into the benefits and challenges of human-technology interaction and continues to peer review academic papers in both the cyber and robotics space.

Christopher Douglas

Central Government Engineering Lead, CACI

Charlene McDonald

Education Account Director, Kainos

Charlene is Education Account Director with Kainos, overseeing multiple digital transformation/operations engagements, including with the Department for Education, University of Cambridge, Queen’s University (Belfast) and The Open University.

Andrew Halliwell

North PB Limited

Annet Kinyanjui

Accesss Partnership

George Robinson

Head of Government Affairs, Three

George Robinson is Head of Government Affairs at Three, a leading mobile network operator company that connects over 13 million people in the UK. George is responsible for shaping Three's government relations – which sees him driving regulatory initiatives and advocating for policies that foster a competitive and sustainable industry.

Matthew Wild

Marketing Assistant - Private Sector, techUK

Matthew joined techUK in August 2023 as a Programme Assistant.

Ileana Lupsa

Programme Manager, Local Public Services and Nations and Regions, techUK

Ileana Lupsa is the Programme Manager for Local Public Services and Nations and Regions, at techUK.

Aleyne Johnson

Senior Director of Government and External Relations, Samsung Electronics

Aleyne Johnson is Samsung Electronics' Senior Director of Government and External Relations.  

Samuel Ajiboyede

CEO, Zido Technologies

Company location: London, UK

Kat Sommer

Group Head of Government Affairs & Analyst Relations, NCC Group

Kat is a seasoned policy and strategy leader with over 15 years of experience spanning political institutions, consultancy, and corporate roles. At NCC Group, she has built and scaled the Government Affairs and Analyst Relations functions, embedding them as strategic enablers of the company’s mission to create a more secure digital future.

Harriet Pugh

Design Lead, TPXimpact

Harriet Pugh is a Design Lead at TPXimpact, working with government, councils and charities to design solutions that meet the needs of people, places and the planet. Her focus is on developing work around tackling climate change and designing the policy, products and services we need to get to net zero.  
 
She is passionate about working with communities to solve complex social problems, and making design and change a more inclusive and collective mission. She also co-chairs TPXimpact’s Planet Employee Resource Group, which provides a space for those concerned about the climate and ecological emergency to discuss, debate and support each other. 

Sonya Anderson

Director, Central Government, CGI

With over 20 years of experience partnering with public sector clients, I specialise in designing, developing, and delivering complex technology projects, with a deep understanding of public sector challenges and a strong track record of driving successful outcomes in complex, high-profile projects. As a senior business development and client relationship professional, I have extensive expertise in shaping and delivering digital transformation initiatives in highly legislated areas such as elections and democracy, education and the justice sector, both internationally and in the UK. Currently I am a Director at CGI responsible for developing innovative proposals for clients in the Justice and Health sectors.  

Tamara Monti

Sales director, Dassault Systèmes

Tamara Monti is a dynamic Sales Director with a strong track record in driving SaaS adoption and forging strategic partnerships across the Education and Enterprise sectors. With over a decade of experience spanning technical consulting, sales leadership, and academia, she has led high-performing teams to exceed growth targets and deliver impactful solutions in Northern Europe.

Victoria Betton

Founder, Loop

Suzy Button

Field CTO EMEA, Elastic

Thomas Whitaker

Account Development Director, Synectics

Chi Onwurah MP

Shadow Minister, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Chi Onwurah is the Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central, and has been an MP continuously since 6 May 2010. She currently undertakes the role of Shadow Minister (Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy).

Jussi Kahtava

Director, Spectrum, Samsung Electronics (UK) Ltd

Jussi Kahtava has extensive experience on strategic radio spectrum interests across Europe, with regulatory advocacy at CEPT PT1 and FM44, ITU-R WP5D (terrestrial mobile) and ITU-R WP4C (mobile satellite services). Focused on WRC-27 AIs 1.7 and 1.13. His particular focus area is Licensed Shared Access. He is also involved in developing cellular IoT solutions for mobile networks.

Prior to roles at Samsung, IONX, and Huawei, he was responsible for Nokia’s global technology policy on future radio systems, with particular focus on the regulatory aspects of new technologies such as cognitive radio. He has developed an extensive insight into strategic issues related to spectrum use.

His experience in telecommunication standards goes back to 1999 when he started in Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), and afterwards, in IMT-Advanced process and development in ITU Radio Communications Sector (ITU-R).

Mark Jackson

National Cybersecurity Advisor, Cisco

I am an experienced Information Security Professional with over twenty years’ experience in technical sales, security architecture, strategy, and consultancy. During this time, I have engaged across the UK Government, wider Public Sector marketplace and elements of the UK Critical National Infrastructure.

James Tyler

Managing Director, UK, Equinix

Ben Johnson

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER, CO-FOUNDER, Uptitude Ltd

Ben Johnson, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Uptitude, has a strong academic background in science and a passion for increasing efficiencies and bringing effective technology to as many people as possible. He began his career as a data analyst for a missile defence company, later transitioning to roles in the Pharmaceuticals and Consumer Healthcare sectors in multi-national corporations. 

Jennifer Jiang

Executive Director, JP Morgan Chase

Feodisia Symonds

Senior People Manager, UBDS Group

Feodisia is a Senior People Coach at UBDS Group. She has been there just over five years now, with a background at DWP and Royal Mail before that. She is also coming to the end of a Level 7 apprenticeship with CIPD as a Senior People Professional, which has been such a rewarding journey.

Matt Osler

Vice President and Senior Director, Helsing Ltd

Sandeep Hardikar

CEO and Co-Founder, Network Science Ltd

Company HQ location: London

Richard Price

CTO, Pragmatic

Richard has more than 25 years’ experience in the development and commercialisation of new technologies based on novel processes and materials. He is a Non-Executive Director at the Henry Royce Institute – the UK’s National Institute for advanced materials research – and is inventor/co-inventor on over 30 patent families. Richard holds a PhD in Chemistry from Durham University.

Anna Dijkstra

Innovation Director, Microsoft

Nick Hartley

VP Sales, Customer Support & Service Solutions, Leonardo UK

Martin Ewings

Brand Leader and Operations Director, Experis UK

Martin has been with Experis since March 2000 and during that time has been a successful new business Sales Consultant, Account Director, Team Leader, Practice Lead and Head of New Business Sales. Martin’s background covers both public and private sectors across interim, contract, perm and project based client solutions.

Steven David Parvin

AVEVA Solutions Limited

Stuart Munton

Chief for Group Delivery, AND Digital

Community and Curiosity are Stuart’s core values which have led him through his 20+ year digital career. Starting with pivotal Agile and Digital transformations for major players like ASDA / Walmart and the NHS, he became an agile advocate back in 2004.

Dr Budgie Dhanda MBE

Digital Trust and Cyber Security, PA Consulting

I have over 25 years of experience of working in defence, national security and cyber security.  I have led sales and delivery into national programmes and I am currently leading a cyber project supporting the Department of Health and Social Care. I have also worked alongside the National Cyber Security Centre in raising awareness and understanding of cyber security and improving cyber maturity and resilience in Board level engagements in the private sector.

James Reid

Vice President Consulting Services, Justice Sector, CGI

Alex Eavis

Chief Product and Technology Officer, Genomics

Madalina Epure

Writer and Law graduate, The Access Group

Adam Watkins

Public Sector Strategy and Sales Director, Kainos

Adam Watkins is the Public Sector Strategy & Sales Director at Kainos (a leading UK technology company based in Northern Ireland) and sits on the Public Sector Leadership Team. With over two decades in the tech industry, Adam has a proven track record of driving growth and innovation. His strategic vision has expanded Kainos’ footprint in the public sector, delivering transformative digital solutions across government organisations. Over the past few years, Adam has led the growth of our business across the Americas region, as well as our Global Data and AI practice, further showcasing his versatility and leadership.  

Charlotte Hails (Chair)

Justice and Policing Lead, Virgin Media O2 Business

Ian Kane

Head of Strategy UK Defence, Palo Alto Networks

Stephen Kingan

Chairman, Nexor

Theodoros Spathopoulos

Senior Specialist in Spectrum Standardisation, Nokia

Theo is currently a Senior Specialist in the Spectrum Standardisation team at Nokia, leading Nokia’s involvement in various regional and global spectrum regulatory discussions.

Lewis Walmesley-Browne

Head of Market Access and Consumer Tech, techUK

Lewis' programmes cover a range of policy areas within Market Access (international trade regulation, sanctions and export controls, technical standards and product compliance, supply chains) and Consumer Tech (media and broadcast policy, consumer electronics, and connected home technology).

Tim Hoyle

Account Executive UK Public Sector, Intel UK

As a focussed and team-oriented member of the Intel UK team my Intel Career over the course of 22 years has provided the opportunity to hold a wide variety of roles based mostly in the UK with some coverage overseas. This fairly unique perspective has enabled me to build relationships and networks, to drive key digital transformation activities in a wide variety of roles and industries, supported by my passion about technology innovation and the transition to an increasingly connected world, underpinned with the increasing need for data security measures.

Sarah Howarth

Operations Director, Me Learning Ltd

Biography

Sarah Howarth is Operations Director at Me Learning Ltd and has 15 years’ experience of challenging traditional learning methods to provide cost-effective, technology-led training solutions for social care, health and police. With a strong understanding of customer challenges and drivers, Sarah uses this experience and awareness to ensure that her team places customer needs at the heart of all they do. This includes driving innovation in training design, ensuring learning outcomes are achieved and delivering consistently high levels of customer satisfaction, equalling the best in the learning industry. Focusing on Operational agility to benefit customers, Sarah puts her MBA, earned at Henley Management College, to good use. Team solutioning and the drive for excellent service delivery are what motivates her to get up in the morning. When not at work Sarah is a keen traveller and loves spending hours both planning and looking forward to her next trip

What you will bring to the Health & Social Care Council and the techUK Health & Social Care programme’s work

Over the last 15 years, I have experienced huge changes in the way technology and supporting services have developed and been deployed, and how workforce skills have evolved. I’ve actively supported health and social care sectors (where our own growth was driven by technological progress) on their transformation journey, as they reacted to broader economic pressures to deliver solutions faster, more cost-effectively and with better outcomes for service users. I have extensive experience across health and care in the implementation and optimisation of technology, new ways of working and digital transformation including the associated policy and legislation, which often drives change. The pressure on our public services has never been greater, and it’s imperative that digital progress, innovation and optimisation continue to be prioritised. I’m passionate about utilising technology to improve outcomes; embracing and anticipating fallout from change; responding to customer needs to deliver solutions that improve people’s lives; helping partners see the art of the possible to achieve adoption. I’d welcome the opportunity to join The Council to play my part in the next chapter for these sectors. I have experience and ideas in abundance, and the energy and enthusiasm to bring these to life for the wider membership.

Alex Mather

Head of Digital Connectivity Forum (DCF)

Alex joined as Head of the DCF in March 2022. Before that he worked at a public affairs consultancy across the telecoms and wider tech space and led the secretariat of the UK’s Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) trade association, Comms Council UK. He has a BA in History and Politics from the University of Nottingham.

Dan Jones

Go-To-Market and Product Lead, Oxford Dynamics

Dan Jones is Go-to-Market and Product Lead at Oxford Dynamics, a company specialising in advanced AI solutions that enable machines to think more like humans. He previously served as Head of Data and Analysis for the Strategic Defence Review and advised on Digital Strategy at the Ministry of Defence between 2022 and 2024.

La Tess Bartlett, Senior Business Development Executive, WMGC

Niall Archibald

Senior Director, Financial Services Industry, Microsoft

My background has been focused on transformation in Financial Services. This was originally as a management consultant at Deloitte working with global banks in roles in Hong Kong and London. Through this I worked on regulation and risk, front to back technology change, operating model transformation and major industry themes like Brexit. I then brought this industry experience to Microsoft, first leading Microsoft's UK Financial Services industry strategy, and then leading Sales Strategy for the LSEG Microsoft Partnership. I focus on delivering growth through product innovation and GTM strategies based on Cloud and AI technologies and industry partnerships across Financial Services. I have previously led Microsoft's membership programmes with UK Finance, the ABI, and the Investment Association.

Matt Armstrong

Associate Director of Policy, National Theatre

Matt is the Associate Director of Policy at the National Theatre, and is a Trustee of arts funder the Genesis Foundation.

Envitia

Helen Gerling

CEO, Shaping Cloud Ltd

Matt Jordan

Canva for Education - EMEA Lead, Canva

As Head of K12 Education for Canva in EMEA, I work with governments across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa to support digital learning transformation and the development of innovative education programs. My collaborations span diverse regions, including Slovenia, Poland, Oman, Kazakhstan, France, Bulgaria, Romania, and Turkey, ensuring technology enhances learning outcomes at scale.

Elaine Hanley

Partner, IBM

Elaine Hanley is a Partner in IBM Consulting Cybersecurity Services in the UK and Ireland for the Industrial Sector leading Cybersecurity Services in Ireland for key clients, and helping these clients to drive business securely. It is a role that combines Elaine’s interest in operating successful business outcomes safely, as well as harnessing the data at our disposal safely and respectfully.

Alex Towers

Director of Policy and Public Affairs, BT Group

Alex was appointed Director of Policy and Public Affairs for BT Group in November 2017.  He leads BT’s political strategy and its public policy work, both in the UK and around the world.

Jocelyn Paulley, Partner at Gowling WLG

Cassandra Gardiner

Head of Digital Innovation & Change, London Borough of Redbridge

Emma Fryer

Director, Public Policy Europe, CyrusOne

Steve McCready

Associate Director – Accenture Health and Public Service, Accenture

Steve is a digital and technology transformation leader and has spent much of his career working within the public sector as a client (Cabinet Office, Newcastle University) and supplier (Accenture, Cognizant, IBM). 

Hatteras Hoops

Senior Associate – Cyber Governance, Policy, and Threat, Booz Allen Hamilton

Sam Adekunle

Startup Programmes Lead, Datamellon

I started my career helping fintech startups navigate the complexities of payments, ensuring they could scale effectively. Later, as a presales engineering lead at Bancore (Denmark), I worked with fintechs to integrate card payment APIs and expand their reach. Over the years, I’ve been deeply involved in cross-border payments, blockchain, and Web3, shaping new financial standards.

Rachel Kennedy

Programme Manager Health and Social Care, techUK

Rachel joined techUK in December 2024, as a Programme Manager in the Health and Social Care team.

Ben Hargreaves

Domian Senior Specialist, BAE Systems

Linda Elverson

Account Executive Healthcare , SAP

Biography

As Account Executive for Healthcare at SAP, I am responsible for working with the NHS, to understand and interpret ambitions and develop strategic partnerships that tackle the challenges faced by providers in advancing the delivery of sustainable and seamless care for patients. I have collaborated with the NHS for over 20 years, working across the Department of Health and Social Care’s partner organisations and NHS providers to realise the benefits attained from digital and data innovation, interoperability and transformation.

What you will bring to the Health & Social Care Council and the techUK Health & Social Care programme’s work

I have been a member of techUK, for many years, through the technology organisations I have represented and work for within the healthcare sector and seen the positive effects achieved from bringing people, companies and organisations together to collaborate. Having recently joined SAP to develop the UK’s healthcare strategy. I see this as an opportunity to share learning experiences and insights, cooperate with other professionals/members and contribute objectively to healthcare topics that will shape how technology and healthcare work together to achieve better outcomes. I hope to bring a (further) versatile perspective from my experiences of healthcare and the technology sector, working with DHSC and across the associated partner organisations, including NHS providers and more recently, Integrated Care Systems. Professionally, I am someone who acts with integrity, seeks diverse perspectives and experiences, engages constructively in dialogue and recognises that we will achieve more by working together and collaborating with others.

Chloe Ambery

Manager , Deloitte

Maria Palmieri

Senior Public Policy Manager, Cloudflare

Maria is Senior Public Policy Manager at Cloudflare, having recently worked as Director of Policy at Yapily, a scaling Fintech company. Prior to this Maria was at Tech Nation leading Government Relations working closely with the DCMS on how to make the UK the best place to grow and scale a tech business. Maria trained as a lawyer and started off her career in Investment Banking. 

Chris Jenkins

Senior Principal Chief Architect (Cyber Security Strategy & Adoption), Red Hat

Tess Buckley

Senior Programme Manager in Digital Ethics and AI Safety, techUK

Tess is a digital ethicist and musician. After completing a MA in AI and Philosophy, with a focus on ableism in biotechnologies, she worked as an AI Ethics Analyst with a dataset on corporate digital responsibility (paid for by investors that wanted to understand their portfolio risks). Tess then supported the development of a specialised model for sustainability disclosure requests. Currently, at techUK, her north star as programme manager in digital ethics and AI safety is demystifying, and operationalising ethics through assurance mechanisms and standards. Outside of Tess's work, her primary research interests are in AI music systems, AI fluency and tech by/for differently abled folks.

Sian Wilson

Executive Director- Commercial, Day One

Company location: London