Evening panellists
See below for details on our evening panellists
Jo Alma, Managing Director - Head of IMD Technology
for Europe & Asia - Goldman Sachs
Jo is Head of Investment Management Division Technology (IMD) in EMEA and Asia. She is the senior sponsor of the EMEA Women in Technology Network, EMEA Technology's representative on the European Diversity Committee and she sits on the Disability Working Group. Jo joined Goldman Sachs in 1996 and was initially involved in designing, developing and implementing the operations systems architecture. She then became responsible for Sales and Marketing Technology in EMEA and the GSAM London office. In 2005, her role expanded to include responsibility for IMD Technology in EMEA, which includes Private Wealth Management Technology internationally. She was named managing director in 2007. Prior to joining the firm, Jo worked at CINMan for thirteen years as a project manager in the IT division. She supported systems delivery for the Marketable Securities, Property and Venture Capital Divisions. She has an HNC in Business Studies and the National Computer Council certificate in Systems Analysis and Design.
Lis Astall, MD Public Service in Europe, Africa &
Latin America - Accenture
Lis Astall leads Accenture's work for Public Service clients in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. During her 24 year career, Lis has held a number of senior leadership positions at Accenture and has worked in the consulting and outsourcing businesses, as well as in manufacturing, financial services and government. Most recently (2003-2006), she was MD of the company's UK business. Lis' current clients are now predominantly in government. Lis sits on the Court of Governors for the London School of Economics. She is a trustee of the Social Mobility Foundation and a regular supporter of Business in the Community Projects.
Fiona Capstick, Vice President, Geographic Integration
Executive,
Office of the CIO - IBM
Fiona is the Geographic Integration Executive, reporting to the CIO. In this role she leads the deployment, adoption and change management activities business transformation for IBM. She and her team are the focal point within the CIO office for local geographic needs and are responsible to ensure that the process, technology and services delivered meets the business needs and provides a productive work environment. She has held a variety of roles within the IBM CIO office and was previously director for the IBM Global Account in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), where she and her team managed IT expenditure to deliver the ongoing operation and innovation of the IBM infrastructure. She was also responsible for running the applications needed to manage IBM's business in Europe including Supply Chain, CRM and the financial systems. Fiona started her career in IT at Brooke Bond Oxo and Conoco. In 1984, she joined IBM in London in technical support. During her 20+ years in IBM, she has worked in sales, marketing, consulting and service delivery. Throughout her career, Fiona has been committed to delivering IT service that meets her client's needs and this experience will serve well in her current role as the IT advocate for IBM employees. Fiona is from the UK and has a Bachelor of Science from the Open University and an MBA from Manchester Business School.
Fiona is a member of CIO Connect
Punita Gajree, Head of Stakeholder Relations,
Strategy,
Stakeholder Relations and Planning -
London 2012
Punita is currently Head of Stakeholder Relations at the London Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG). She was previously Head of Programme Solutions which involved overseeing the organisation's integrated programme development. Prior that she was a Management Consultant Partner at Accenture where she was responsible for developing new business relationships, working with senior client executives to define business and IT strategies and drive them through to operational implementation. Punita is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and sits on their Strategic Panel for Women. Punita is also a Changemaker for Working Families and has many notable achievements including being short-listed for Asian Women Achievement Award's Businesswoman of Year (2001), being recognised by the Institute of Asian Professionals as being one of the top 100 influential British Asians (2005), being invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce (2006) and being short-listed for Asian Women Awards of Excellence (2008).
Karen Winney, Procter and Gamble UK
Karen Winney, Director, Business Services UK Ireland & Nordic - Procter & Gamble Karen is the Business Services Director for Procter and Gamble, where she heads IT and shared services for the UK, Ireland and Nordic. This includes the delivery of more than 85 services to the organisation, including business building services such as supply chain, financial, customer and consumer services, and employee services including HR support and workplace and infrastructure services. Prior to moving to the UK in 2007, Karen was based in Switzerland where she headed IT for Gillette in Europe. During the 15 years Karen has worked in the consumer products industry she has developed and delivered global retail execution strategies, established and run regional shared service and operations centres and lead programs in Australasia, Japan, India and Europe that have transformed the company's operations. Karen started her IT career in the finance industry and public sector in New Zealand before joining Gillette in 1994 (P&G 2005). She sits on the GS1UK Board, is a member of the British Computer Society and has a Bachelor of Commerce from Otago University.
Karen is a member of CIO Connect.
Rebecca George OBE, facilitator
The evening's facilitator is Rebecca George OBE, Partner in Deloitte Corporate Finance Rebecca is a Partner with Deloitte, responsible for relationship management and business development in Public Sector Corporate Finance. She has worked with the public sector since 2001, in business development and sales executive roles in central government, health and shared services. During this time she chaired the Women in IT Forum, the Intellect Shared Services working group, and the skills group for the Egan review of Sustainable Community skills. Recently she has been working with the Corporate Services Transformation Board at Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND) (now the Border and Immigration Agency (BIA)). Rebecca is an accomplished business manager, mentor and coach, strong in teaming across complex organisations. She spent nineteen years at IBM where she spent approximately a third of her time in sales, a third in business process reengineering and business transformation and a third in HR. She has worked in the UK, the US and Europe. Rebecca moved to her current position in 2006. Rebecca is also the current chair of the BCS Strategic Panel for Women.