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Graeme Wright is CTO for Manufacturing, Utilities and Services at Fujitsu in the UK and Ireland, and has been at the company for 17 years. Graeme leads the business development for the sector, and is specifically focused on IoT, analytics and smart technologies. His role involves exploring how they can be used to devise solutions in the energy and utilities, as well as the built environment sectors to optimise asset management and deliver a step change in business performance.

Graeme has a first degree in Computing Science and a Masters in Business Administration. He has successfully used his experience and knowledge of both business and technology to deliver IT enabled change for many organisations. Outside of work, Graeme has completed a project to build his own house and plays regularly in a band.

Rupal leads Fujitsu's business serving public and private sector organisations in the UK, encompassing Retail, Hospitality, Public Sector & Government, Manufacturing, Utilities, Telecoms and Services.

Tony O’Malley is CEO of Fujitsu Ireland and Chairman of the Fujitsu Ireland Limited board. He is leading the delivery of Fujitsu’s innovative ICT services to the public and private sectors.

As CEO, Tony is committed to creating value for customers and putting into practice Fujitsu’s vision to create a Human Centric Intelligent Society.

He also oversees significant research programmes in Ireland in collaboration with Fujitsu Laboratories Japan, in particular addressing Data Analytics and Healthcare systems for assisted living.

Tony sits on the Dublin Chamber of Commerce Council and is a member of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics Advisory Committee.

Chris leads our EMEIA Transport Marketing team having previously being appointed as Head of Fujitsu UK & Ireland Marketing. Chris has over 20 years’ marketing and alliances experience in the technology sector, across a number of senior management and board level positions with channel and software vendors including SCC, EDS and Camwood. With responsibility for ensuring the effective creation and timely execution of the marketing plan for Transport across EMEIA, Chris leads a dedicated team of professional marketers who share his dedication for delivering comprehensive and compelling marketing programmes and understanding of the sector.

Haydn Jones is an Account Managing Director within our Media team, focused on reshaping the sector with mature and emerging technology.

He is a former Management Consultant, having spent five years at A. T. Kearney, advising and leading on IT Outsourcing and operational efficiency solutions across a broad range of sectors.

He is a graduate of Manchester University, Electronics and Electrical Engineering, FIET, holds a Dip. Law from City University and completed his Bar Finals in 1995.  He is the former Chair of the City of London Citizen's Advice Bureau and Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists.

He is married, with one son, and lives in Islington. Outside of work, his interests include music, and writing screenplays.  

Anthony Duffy is a highly experienced company director, senior manager and management consultant who has worked in the financial services industry and as an advisor to government for over thirty years.

In addition to advising numerous UK and continental European financial services organizations, Anthony has also held senior line management positions, including  as Director of Strategy for a FTSE-100 bank; Deputy Managing Director of a UK commercial bank; and Managing Director of a UK asset finance company.  He has also worked in central government, advising Cabinet ministers of the development and passage of company legislation.  

Anthony joined Fujitsu in February 2012.

Martin is an experienced Business Consultant who has worked across multiple market sectors in the ICT industry for over 20 years, following a career in financial services.

He is a BITC Business Connector alumnus, has played a leading part in development of Fujitsu’s Responsible Business and Diversity and Inclusion approach, and is engaged in enhancing Fujitsu’s UK STEM engagement approach.

Martin joined Fujitsu in October 1996.

Sanjeev focuses on understanding a customer’s business drivers and using technical excellence to identify, design and deliver web-scale architectures, strategies and specific multi cloud solutions that address these business drivers and add value to a customer’s business. He has a deep technical knowledge and proven track record in leading sales teams and Cloud Enterprise Architects in delivering complex solutions, working with key Fujitsu partners such as AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, VMware, and Google.

Johan is one of our senior leaders that drive our customers to embrace digital solutions, prepare their business for new challenges and set new standard in Manufacturing and Automotive.

Johan inspires our customers to think of new ways of applying technology to traditional business functions and revolutionise the way they operate to increase productivity and prepare for the future.

Excellence in Delivery. Trust and reliability is the key to delivering world class solutions every day. He achieves this through delivering long term digital technology strategies that address new business opportunities and challenges. His solutions bring technology closer to the business and increase financial awareness in IT to achieve the commercial business drivers, whilst improving the effectiveness, productivity and business processes.

Dr. Darminder Ghataoura has over 15 years’ experience in the design and development of AI systems and services across the UK Public and Defence sectors as well as UK andinternational commercial businesses. Darminder currently heads up Fujitsu's offerings and capabilities in AI and Data Science within the Defence and National Security space, acting as Technical Design Authority with responsibility for shaping proposals and development of integrated AI solutions. He also manages the strategic technical AI relationships with partners and UK government and was awarded with the Fujitsu Distinguished Engineer recognition in 2020.

Darminder holds an Engineering Doctorate (EngD) in Autonomous Military Sensor Networks for Surveillance Applications, from University College London (UCL).

Dr. Keith Dear is Director Artificial Intelligence Innovation at Fujitsu Defence and National Security.Keith has served as an Expert Advisor to the Prime Minister on Defence Modernisation and the Integrated Review, leading also on UK space strategy in No. 10, and advising on national strategies on emerging technology.A former Intelligence Officer in the RAF he has served in Iraq, completed three deployments to Afghanistan, deployed to Abkhazia (Georgia) with the United Nations, to Mali alongside the French, and served on exchange with US Air Force.

Keith now continues his service as a Group Captain (Reserve) in 601 Squadron, leading on Science, Technology and academic liaison. He is a Chief of the Air Staff’s Fellow, Research Associate at Oxford’s Changing Character of War Programme and Associate Fellow at RUSI - where he guest edited the Special Edition on AI in November 2019.

He speaks widely on AI, Big Data and Decision-Making and was named one of the most relevant voices in European tech by the leading business ‘Big Things’ Conference in 2019.He holds a DPhil in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford. In 2011, he was awarded King’s College London’s O’Dwyer-Russell prize for his MA studies in Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism. He co-leads the Defence Entrepreneurs’ Forum (UK) and was founder and CEO of Airbridge Aviation, a not-for-profit start-up dedicated to delivering humanitarian aid by cargo drones.

Sarah Simcoe is Head of Business Enablement EMEIA within Fujitsu’s Business & Application Services EMEIA business.Sarah is also the Chair of Fujitsu UK and Ireland’s Disability Employee Network, SEED, a role she has held for the last 15 months.

Maxine Ashbrook is an accomplished Head of Marketing renowned for her passion for social value and driving buiness benefit by doing good. As a credible industry diplomat who is widely respected throughout the industry, she is currently leader and evangelist for Fujitsu’s Defence & National Security marketing function. Within this role she is responsible for implementing high impact, meaningful customer experiences, focusing on stakeholder relationships while delivering strategic marketing transformation that delivers tangible business growth and competitive edge.

Gerren Mayne is the UK Head of SAP Practice. He has worked in SAP for over twenty five years, initially as a SAP FICO consultant on R/3 before moving onto managing SAP implementation projects across EMEIA. Gerren moved into a Consultative Sales role during his tenure at IBM and has gone onto to lead SAP teams at Atos, HPE and Accenture before joining Fujitsu. Gerren believes passionately about the ability of SAP to transform businesses but thinks that organisations and partners need to take a new approach to ensure that customers achieve the right business outcomes through this investment.Gerren is passionate about supporting businesses in maximising their investment across SAP and to enable them to innovate, reduce costs and drive operational excellence to enable them to meet their strategic goals.

Head of Financial Services and Insurance at Fujitsu UK & Ireland

Dave is a highly experienced Systems and Security Engineer with over 15 years commercial experience in delivering and supporting managed enterprise solutions and managed security services.

Andrew leads the establishment and incubation of Hybrid IT solutions and capability across Fujitsu's global business. Hybrid IT, the practical application and integration of Cloud services and traditional IT, is the critical IT delivery model to enable organizations to innovate with agility and modernize securely whilst exploiting existing investments.

Andrew joined Fujitsu in 1997 and has 26 years of experience within the ICT industry across both the public and private sectors.

Paul is an Application Architect who has been with Fujitsu for over 10 years. From an early career as Software Developer on large scale, complex application projects. More recently, Paul took up a lead role in part of the Fujitsu pioneering Digital Innovation team, based in Swansea. He now specialises in rapid IT, combining customer collaboration and AGILE methodologies to produce fast results and award winning solutions.

Fujitsu SAP CTO, NWE

An SAP Certified Enterprise Architect with extensive experience in the implementation of the full SAP project lifecycle.

Evangelist and expert in the field of SAP, both inside and outside Fujitsu, leading and directing a team of senior SAP Architects.

Focussing on cloud migration strategies, SAP S/4HANA transformations, mergers and acquisitions, lifecycle services and Fujitsu intelligent enterprise solutions to enable digital transformations.

Tom is responsible for building relationships with new and existing customers in Retail and Hospitality in the UK.

As a member of Generation Y, he focuses on innovation to enable business change for Retail colleagues and customers.

Tom challenges the way traditional IT is delivered, collaborating with partners, adopting innovation from other industries and above all working closely with customers to realise business benefits with technology.

Mat is the Chief Technology Officer responsible for Healthcare at Fujitsu, having joined in June 2020 and is extremely passionate about transforming the healthcare industry to improve Patient outcomes and Clinical Experiences. Previously to Fujitsu, Mat was CTO at Guys and St Thomas’, whereby he oversaw various digital initiatives, including an EPIC migration programme, heading the tech workstream and gaining even greater insight into the science of healthcare.

Caroline is a Project Manager in the central team of Fujitsu’s Global Delivery Centres (GDCs). She is a member of the GDC Responsible Steering Committee and drives Diversity & Inclusion initiatives across 8 global locations. She is also proud to be the chair of Fujitsu’s UK&I LGBT+ staff network, Shine.

Ravi Krishnamoorthi is responsible for BAS’s strategy, execution and end-to-end business management besides spearheading innovation to transform Fujitsu’s digital footprint across EMEIA.

Veronica is the Sales Director for Fujitsu Ireland, the local arm of Japan’s leading Information and Communication Technology Company.With over 25 years’ experience in the IT Services sector, Veronica joined Fujitsu from a CRM start-up SaaS company in 1999 as an Associate Director.Since then, she has worked in a variety of Senior Management roles, including three years as Practice Lead of the Consulting Practice, prior to joining the leadership team as Sales Director in 2015.Veronica is the Executive Sponsor of the Women’s Business Network @Fujitsu which serves to promote greater diversity and inclusion among our workforce and on a broader scale in promoting careers in ICT for women.She holds an Honours degree in Computer Applications and an Executive MBA with Distinction from Trinity Business School, specialising in Management and Sustainability.Veronica is passionate about lifelong learning and in addition to currently serving as an Adjunct Teaching Fellow at Trinity College Dublin.

With over 30 years’ experience, Mark Wixey is a focussed and committed IT practitioner.Much of his career has been spent designing, providing, operating and supporting high security IT systems and services across the UK Public Sector as well as both UK and international commercial businesses.

Since joining Fujitsu’s Defence & National Security business unit, Mark has assumed responsibility for the department’s cyber services strategy and portfolio. He is also responsible for managing strategic technical security relationships with partners and UK government. In this capacity he is utilizing his accumulated technical knowledge across multiple products, services and solutions combined with experience of the numerous available procurement routes.

In June 2019, Mark was awarded the status of Fujitsu Distinguished Engineer, a global network of role model technologists: https://www.fujitsu.com/uk/innovation/fujitsu-distinguished-engineers/. He currently serves as an elected member of techUK’s Cyber Security Management Committee.

With over 30 years’ experience, Mark Wixey is a focussed and committed IT practitioner.Much of his career has been spent designing, providing, operating and supporting high security IT systems and services across the UK Public Sector as well as both UK and international commercial businesses.

Since joining Fujitsu’s Defence & National Security business unit, Mark has assumed responsibility for the department’s cyber services strategy and portfolio. He is also responsible for managing strategic technical security relationships with partners and UK government. In this capacity he is utilizing his accumulated technical knowledge across multiple products, services and solutions combined with experience of the numerous available procurement routes.

In June 2019, Mark was awarded the status of Fujitsu Distinguished Engineer, a global network of role model technologists: https://www.fujitsu.com/uk/innovation/fujitsu-distinguished-engineers/. He currently serves as an elected member of techUK’s Cyber Security Management Committee.

Marian has more than 20 years of experience in designing and delivering solutions across the utilities sector around the world. Her areas of expertise include Artificial Intelligence, SAP, digital transformation and market systems.

Guest contributor River Tamoor Baig is the Founder of Hack Partners.

Gary is responsible for digital solutions and services to strategic clients including the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and others within Public Sector Policy and Regulation.

Gary has held a number of senior delivery and client leadership positions across the full range of Fujitsu’s services and is a respected leader within Fujitsu’s Public Sector team.

Since joining Fujitsu in 1997, he has led a number of major transformations including large infrastructure, Cloud and IdAM, telephony and networking implementations -across both public and private sectors.

Ricky Patel is Head of Healthcare at Fujitsu, based in Southampton, UK.

Ricky believes we need to bridge inequalities in society through making technology accessible to all, enabling the development of digital skills so that every individual has an opportunity to be curious and develop resiliency both personally and professionally.

Outside of work, Ricky is embarking on the journey of becoming a first time parent.

Caragh heads Partner Management at Fujitsu Ireland driving growth in the Retail, Transport and Utilities sector.

Usman is responsible for the PRIMEFLEX Integrated Systems portfolio in the UK&I and driving business growth in this area through the delivery of compelling value propositions both at a technical and commercial level. Usman has over 10 years of vendor experience working on large opportunities designing complex virtualisation, data management, business continuity and disaster recovery solutions and presenting compelling value propositions at both a technical and CxO level.

I am the CTO Research Lead at Fujitsu. I have 35 years of experience in IT architecture and systems design and over 13 years of research collaborations within a number of consortia. I have been the technical lead and contributor to a wide range of research projects on the themes of Situational Awareness, Operational Logistics Decision Support, Information-Knowledge Management Systems and Enterprise Architecture capabilities. My interests are in multi-modal agent-based systems with neuro-symbolic AI knowledge representations and ML in graph networks including Reinforcement Learning, Data Centric Security (DCS), logic-based reasoning and probabilistic decision models, synthetic environment modelling and simulation driven optimisations. I am a Fujitsu Distinguished Engineer and hold a PhD in Computer Networks Modelling and Performance Analysis from The University of Manchester.

Heading up the Product and Offerings Management team for Fujitsu UK&I Client Computing solutions. With a focus on understanding clients business objectives/drivers and matching the right solution to improve productivity and efficiency.

Justin leads the EMEIA Portfolio Office at Fujitsu; a team of over 200 project and PMO professionals delivering a range of PMO services to over 50 external customers across 5 countries, as well as underpinning Fujitsu’s internal change programmes. With background in IT Transition Management, delivering Transition Programmes for Fujitsu and other IT companies, I jumped into the world of PMO. Now Justin brings together all PMO resources into a single shared service team delivering fully costed and measurable PMO services that improve the successful delivery of projects and programmes.

Andy joined Fujitsu in 2018 as the Senior Director for Security Professional Services and oversaw a period of growth for Fujitsu’s Security Consulting practice, before stepping up to lead the UK&I Cyber Security business in 2021. Andy’s background is predominantly in consulting and professional services with the likes of PwC, Detica and BAE Systems. He brings a wealth of experience with roles across Consulting, Account Management, Pre-Sales and as well as leading Transformation Programmes.

Conway joined Fujitsu in 2006, and brings a rich set of business experiences gained through a variety of senior leadership roles across Asia and North America.

In his role, Conway is responsible for MIS’ strategy, execution and end-to-end business management. Fujitsu delivers business value by supporting its customers to digitize their business through Hybrid IT underpinned by MetaArc - Fujitsu’s digital business platform and K5–its cloud service.

Tim is a Fujitsu Fellow and Distinguished Engineer. Since joining Fujitsu in 2005 his roles have included delivering digital innovation for HMRC and DVLA, and a stint developing IOT solutions in our Globeranger business.

Bridget Ward is Head of People and Third-Party Engagement for Fujitsu’s Defence & National Security business unit. Bridget has worked for Fujitsu for 21 years in a wide and varied range of roles from leading Project Management Teams to Strategic Recruitment Campaigns. Bridget has in depth knowledge of recruitment and resourcing and has used this knowledge to drive internal best practices.

Having spent the last 8 years in the Defence & National Security area, she has developed a focus on enhancing the recruitment footprint with military service leavers, and sourced and hired hundreds of people into the organisation. Bridget is a key contact for our engagement with recruitment partners and has worked with external organisations to keep ahead of the changes in attraction and development of talent. Her passion is to make Fujitsu an employer of choice for service leavers, and this remains a key part of Fujitsu’s drive and focus for 2020.

With over 25 years experience in managing IT estates, Andy Laidler has spent 15 years as CTO for a number of large public sector managed service accounts. He takes an approach that crosses architecture, service, commercial and finance to drive customer outcomes and continues to be focussed on how to deliver IT solutions and investments in a way that gives direct user benefit.

He is currently responsible for investment and innovation for Fujitsu’s Defence and National security business, supporting the business in shaping up for tomorrow’s challenges.

Reporting into Fujitsu’s retail leadership in Japan, Richard is responsible for coordinating, growing and promoting a global retail business across all our markets.

Richard is responsible for Fujitsu’s global retail strategy, which includes prioritizing markets, building the case internally and with partners for new solution development, and executing specific growth initiatives.

He develops and executes compelling and relevant retail strategies to expand key markets; he is responsible for developing a portfolio of global solutions and services to meet customers’ needs; and he works side by side with strategic customers to develop their relationship with Fujitsu. He leads and supports client specific sales campaigns and is responsible for building pipeline in targeted geographic or solution areas.

Richard leads Fujitsu’s relationships in retail with strategic ICT and business partners, is the lead representative for Fujitsu in retail with the analyst community and is tasked with identifying and delivering new channels to market – direct and indirect

Richard leads Fujitsu’s global retail strategy, which includes prioritising markets, building the case internally and with partners for new solution development, and executing specific growth initiatives.

Tom leads Fujitsu’s business in the Manufacturing, Utilities and Services sectors across the UK. He also sits on the UK & Ireland senior leadership team.

Tom is Fujitsu’s Executive sponsor for our Graduates and Apprentices and is a fully accredited and qualified Executive Coach.

Ian has 25+ years IT experience, substantially in the Oracle arena, with Board level engagement on large IT transformation programmes and experienced across the IT spectrum including the full span as Head of Systems and Operations, including cross-border and cross-culture management. Ian has managed teams from 25 up to 200+ over disparate regions driving Organisations to the Cloud with Fujitsu capability, helping smooth transition to IAAS, PAAS or SAAS solution or a combination of all three.

Experienced Chief Architect with a demonstrated history of working in the Information Technology and Services industry. Strong business development professional skilled in Big Data Analytics, Data Architecture, Technology & Enterprise Architecture and a TOGAF certified professional.