Gary has over 20 years experience of running large-scale IT Programmes, including three years at a tier-one Consulting firm. Gary has significant Financial Services, Telecoms and Professional Services industry experience and has delivered complex global Programmes in highly challenging environments. He has a wide range of technical experience encompassing; infrastructure delivery, application development & deployment and network operations,  but he is especially strong on Data Centre design and consolidation.

 

Having held Business Management, Transformation Management and IT Change Management roles in his early career Gary is accomplished operating in both IT and Business facing roles and delivers through strong influencing and negotiation. He founded Xceed in 2003.

 

 

John has over 25 years experience in the IT industry, including a three year stint at a tier-one Consulting firm. He is a specialist in IT Systems and Service Management and has deep experience in IT outsourcing having led the technology programme that resulted in outsourcing the entire IT infrastructure for Deutsche Bank in continental Europe. John has served in a number of senior management positions across varied industries including; investment & retail banking, insurance, telecommunications, media, manufacturing and the public sector. John served as Chairman and was a leading member of an industry forum for investment banks that focused on CIO level issues in and around the Data Centre.

 

An early champion of the ITIL approach to service management John has managed programmes to roll out ITIL and associated toolsets across IT operations on a global scale. An accomplished Board-Level operator, John is an excellent communicator and is one of those people who not only "gets it" but can translate so that everyone else "gets it" as well.

 

 

John is a highly respected Senior IT Executive with over 25 years experience in IT & Business Change Management, working in global companies and software houses. He has an outstanding track record of delivering massive step-change across major organisations, including running some of the largest integration programmes in the UK.

John works at CEO level to determine investment strategy, business vision and change programmes and is a renowned trouble-shooter. He represents IT / Change Management on Exectuive Committees to prioritise and control spend across large organisations.

His personal experience of shaping and leading global programmes with budgets in excess of £300m and over 3000 staff, involving both Application & Infrastructure change, means John delivers "world class" programmes to achieve maximum efficiency with mimimum fuss.

John creates a common vision across all departments, including working with CEO's and Global Heads to turn that vision into reality. He has substantial experience of acquisitions and integrations having played a leading role in the successful integration of the RBS and Nat West banks.

 

John oversees all of Xceed's major projects to ensure best practice and results are delivered.

 

 

At Xceed, we understand that our staff are our company and we work closely as a team. We only recruit highly professional, qualified and referenced people who have the necessary skills and experience and are committed to providing the best service to our clients.

Xceed provides Group Membership of The British Computer Society (BCS) to the team and all our staff are encouraged to join. We utilise the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) to help us and our staff to identify career paths and to plan training and development needs. BCS membership has allowed our staff to benefit from the vast range of resources and advice available from their industry peers.