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Rank Company name CIOs name Employees Prev Yr Rank
1 Department for Work & Pensions Joe Harley, IT director general and CIO 101000 5 (↑)
2 Ministry of Defence John Taylor, director general of information 300000 1 (↓)
3 Royal Dutch/Shell Alan Matula, Vice President and Chief Information Officer 102000 17 (↑)
4 Tesco Mike McNamara, CIO 193197 N/A
5 Department of Health Christine Connelly, Chief Information Officer 5000 103 (↑)
6 Royal Bank of Scotland Group 174000 3 (↓)
7 Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs Phil Pavitt 100000 2 (↓)
8 Ministry of Justice Andrew Nelson, Chief Information Officer 95000 N/A
9 Royal Mail Group Catherine Doran, Chief Information Officer, as of September 2011 176000 8 (↓)
10 BT Clive Selley, Chief Information Officer 86500 4 (↓)
11 ASDA Howard Reed - IT Director 163392 15 (↑)
12 Scottish Government Anne Moises, Director of Information Technology 5300 N/A
13 BP Edwin Alford, Chief Information Officer 15900 11 (↓)
14 Department for Children, Schools and Families Tim Wright, CIO 2842 N/A
15 BAE Systems No CIO role at present 32800 14 (↓)
16 Barclays Bank Nitin Bhargava, Head of IT 60700 N/A
17 Lloyds TSB Group Darryl West, Chief Information Officer 64355 9 (↓)
18 J Sainsbury Rob Fraser, IT Director 97300 22 (↑)
19 Wm Morrison Supermarkets Gary Barr, IT Director 124530 30 (↑)
20 Centrica Bill Sexton, Chief Information Officer 27538 20 (=)
21 HSBC John Armstrong, Global Head of IT Operations 58000 16 (↓)
22 Co-operative Group Ian Dyson, Director of Trading Group IT 80658 24 (↑)
23 Unilever Neil Cameron, Chief Information Officer 17000 6 (↓)
24 TUI Travel plc Jim Mann, CIO 50001 N/A
25 Department for Business Innovation and Skills Peter Lowe, Director of Information and Workplace Service 15800 N/A
26 Marks & Spencer Group Darrell Stein, Director of IT & Logistics 73110 63 (↑)
27 The Metropolitan Police Ailsa Beaton, Chief Information Officer 52170 23 (↓)
28 Department for Transport Chris O'Connor, Director of Shared Services 7187 96 (↑)
29 BA Paul Coby, CIO 39137 33 (↑)
30 Aviva Toby Redshaw, CIO 28424 48 (↑)
31 John Lewis Partnership John Keeling, IT Director 45100 28 (↓)
32 Ford of Europe Nick Smither, Group Chief Information Officer 35000 58 (↑)
33 Corus Group Bruno Laquet, Chief Information Officer 41100 N/A
34 DHL Steve Robinson, IT Director 50000 7 (↓)
35 Home Office Annette Vernon, Chief Information Officer 26691 27 (↓)
36 McDonald’s Restaurants Gavin Griffin, Technology Solutions Manager 74800 55 (↑)
37 Daily Mail and General Trust David Henderson, CIO 12511 N/A
38 Network Rail Catherine Doran, until July 2011 36138 41 (↑)
39 Standard Life Group Keith Young, Chief Information Officer 7250 94 (↑)
40 Microsoft UK Robert Ford, IT Director for EMEA 1500 N/A
41 Alliance Boots Andy Haywood, IT Director 28964 38 (↓)
42 Compass Group Jean Trinder, Head of IT Operations 64146 45 (↑)
43 Birmingham City Council Les Timms , Head of IT 54351 39 (↓)
44 The Welsh Assembly Government Gwyn Thomas, CIO 6230 N/A
45 Defence Equipment and Support 22500 N/A
46 GlaxoSmithKline Bill Louv, Chief Information Officer 17000 13 (↓)
47 Capita Ian Gates, Group IT Director 32601 N/A
48 SPAR UK Steven Raybold, IT Manager 50000 67 (↑)
49 Balfour Beatty Darryn Warner, Chief Information Officer 41030 37 (↓)
50 Home Retail Group Pete Connor, Information Systems Director 29794 62 (↑)
51 Serco Group Paul Hobbs, Service Delivery Director 40000 60 (↑)
52 JP Morgan Chase Mark Kimber, Chief Information Officer - International 17000 61 (↑)
53 BUPA Yasmin Jetha, Chief Information Officer 32000 44 (↓)
54 Wigan Council Peter Livesy Director of IT 10500 N/A
55 EDF Energy Derek Wilde, Chief Information Officer 20090 71 (↑)
56 Rentokil Initial Bryan Kinsella, Chief Information Officer 48510 21 (↓)
57 Carillion Anton Banks Head of Technology Development 50000 42 (↓)
58 Lancashire County Council Bill Brown, Director of IS & ICT 42059 88 (↑)
59 Citigroup Tony O'Conner, IT Director 11500 N/A
60 AstraZeneca UK Richard Williams, Chief Information Officer 11000 25 (↓)
61 Learning and Skills Council John Quinn, IT Director 3100 N/A
62 Leeds City Council Dylan Roberts, Chief ICT Officer 32000 65 (↑)
63 RWE Npower Theresa Hayes, Chief Information Officer - Business IT 12747 70 (↑)
64 Exxon Mobil Group Ltd Bill Leask, IT Manager 14200 N/A
65 AXA Mark Knowlton, Director of IS and Solutions Delivery 16652 N/A
66 Kent County Council Peter Bole, Head of ICT Commissioning 30000 56 (↓)
67 Alstom Collin Richardson, IT Director 5000 N/A
68 FirstGroup Tim Airey, Group Information Systems Director 40000 N/A
69 Abbey Jesus Villalba, Director of Group Technical Services 40000 N/A
70 DSG Phil Greenwood, Chief Information Officer 22978 N/A
71 Arriva Ian Jerrard, Head of IT 23040 49 (↓)
72 Vodafone Steve Pusey, Chief Technology Officer 10350 79 (↑)
73 Aegon Asset Management UK Paul Chong, Director of IT & Change 5189 N/A
74 Glasgow City Council Cathleen Nelson, IT Director 28500 73 (↓)
75 Hampshire County Council Jos Creese, Head of IT 28095 57 (↓)
76 ISS Jeremy Lutley, IT Manager 45000 N/A
77 Manchester City Council Steve Park, Head of Strategic Information & Technology 26000 66 (↓)
78 BSkyB Didier Lebrat, Chief Technlogy Officer 14922 N/A
79 Virgin Media Ian Chapman, IT Director 14609 54 (↓)
80 Nationwide Building Society Peter Stafford, Divisional Director - Information Technology 18935 52 (↓)
81 O2 Derek McManus, Chief Technology Officer 11000 78 (↓)
82 National Grid David Lister, Group Chief Information Officer 10457 46 (↓)
83 Orange Tim Short, UK Director of Technical Operations 13000 59 (↓)
84 Rolls Royce Alex Walker, Business IT Director 22500 29 (↓)
85 Liverpool City Council Dereck Anders, Head of IT 30000 86 (↑)
86 Sanofi Phil Shepherd, Chief Information Officer - IS 750 N/A
87 WH Smith Peter Swann, IT Director 17891 47 (↓)
88 BBC Tiffany Hall, CIO 22874 35 (↓)
89 Kingfisher Richard Collins, IT Manager 26131 40 (↓)
90 Group 4 Securicor Glynn Hughes, Group IT Director 33279 87 (↓)
91 PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Peter McBride, Director of Global Information 15200 64 (↓)
92 DEFRA John Yard, interim chief information officer 10807 76 (↓)
93 Accenture Donald Rippert, Chief Technology Officer 10500 N/A
94 Surrey County Council Paul Brocklehurst, Head of IT 26000 83 (↓)
95 West Sussex County Council John Balsdon, Head of IT 24000 85 (↓)
96 Fife Council Terry Trundley, Council Information Officer 22000 51 (↓)
97 Whitbread Andrew Brothers, CIO 26377 50 (↓)
98 KPMG LLP Bryan Clark, Chief Information Officer 11788 34 (↓)
99 RSA James de Watteville, UK CIO 9322 N/A
100 Land Rover and Jaguar Jeremy Vincent, CIO 9650 82 (↓)

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