Authors on the Fujitsu UK & Ireland blog

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Graeme specialises in delivering large and complex Value Governance assignments, using Business Architecture, Strategic Governance, Portfolio Management and Benefits Realisation approaches. Graeme has a first degree in Computing Science and a Masters in Business Administration. Graeme has successfully used his experience and knowledge of both business and technology to successfully deliver IT enabled change for many organisations. Graeme is the Fujitsu thought leader on managing Service Orientated Architecture enabled business change programs. Outside of work, Graeme has just finished building his own house and is now starting to train, once again, for the next London Marathon.

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.

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.

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.  

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.

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.

President and CEO of Fujitsu EMEIA

Mark works with leading insurance providers and aggregators across the UK to help make their digital ambitions a reality, through the implementation of Fujitsu digital technology and services.

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.

Bryan is an experienced security analyst with a proven record of delivering technology services across industry sectors.

He has developed his design, technical, project and security skills within some of the UK’s top employers and institutions.

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.

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.

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.

I'm responsible for the Future Leaders programme and the promotion of Apprenticeships.

I'm proud that our Talent programmes have won 3 major national awards in the last 2 years and we are regularly deemed to be best in class at Talent Management and Leadership Development.

Mark is responsible for leading Fujitsu’s Hybrid IT business across the EMEIA region. This is focused on the optimization and orchestration of cloud/digitally enabled platforms and traditional IT environments to provide sustainable competitive advantage for private sector customers and joined up government for those in the public sector.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Maxine is the leader and evangelist for Defence and National Security marketing in Fujitsu. She heads up the Defence marketing team who are responsible for creating meaningful and memorable customer experiences focusing on stakeholder relationships and marketing’s contribution to winning new business

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.

Theo is on secondment to Fujitsu from the Civil Service’s Digital, Data and Technology Fast Stream. Currently at Fujitsu, he is a digital co-creation consultant and helps to facilitate workshops in our London Digital Transformation Centre with our customers.

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.

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.

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.

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

Jason started his IT career straight out of university when he joined Fujitsu in 1999 as a developer.He left the organisation in 2002 to work for SEGA, before re-joining Fujitsu in 2007.In 2014, he was recognised by his peers for his technical excellence and admitted to the Fujitsu Distinguished Engineer Scheme.

His early career focussed on applications development where he worked on a diverse set of projects in retail, online gaming, and government.He then progressed into systems architecture, before becoming an Account CTO.In this role, he’s worked on a number of large accounts including the Home Office and the UK Border Force.Over the last three years, Jason has been focussed on the Transport sector where he has worked alongside many of the Transport Operators in the UK.

Jason lives in the suburbs of Reading with this wife, daughter, and son.They take up most of his time outside of work, but he does enjoy spending his Sunday evenings watching his favourite NFL team, the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Myfanwy works as a Solution Architect in the Products Business Line at Fujitsu.

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

Frank Dunsmuir has over 20 years’ experience working for global technology organisations delivering services and solutions to the retail and supply chain industry, as well as major government programmes including DVLA’s electronic vehicle licencing and TfL’s congestion charging systems.

Today, Frank is an expert in new and emerging technologies, and how these can deliver innovative solutions to clients. He leads Fujitsu's relationship with the Customs and International Trade division of HMRC, identifying how technology can play a role in addressing both today's, and future, customs and trade business challenges.

Frank’s current focus is to support Government with its preparations for the UK's EU exit, together with the development of a vision of its future border capability for the UK, which will support growth in global trade and GDP.

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.

Karen has worked in IT services sales and delivery for over thirty years and has spent a large portion of this time assisting Public Sector customers. She currently works as a Lead Deal Architect in the Government to Citizen Pre-Sales area of Fujitsu, looking at how technology and services can drive value and business benefit for customers, whilst meeting their future strategic requirements. Karen’s ambition is to help local authorities share their knowledge and expertise and to learn from each other to ensure all citizens have a consistent high quality experience when interacting with their Council.

Dr. Bernd Kosch is the Program Director Industry 4.0 of the FUJITSU region EMEIA. He is responsible for technical and business strategy of the company in the industrial internet of things, is the spokesperson on the subject and represents FUJITSU in related interest groups and bodies. He is a member of the advisor group ‘Plattform Industrie 4.0 of the German Federal government, and he also contributes to the IoT activity in the German ICT association (BITKOM) and the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC).

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.

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.