Page 1 CIO 100 - Companies

Every company here is listed by rank one to 100. For 2008 we have also joined in partnership with business information suppliers Bureau van Dijk to increase the amount of information available to include turnover figures, a synopsis of the corporate history and details of their main product line. This information is sourced from Fame a comprehensive database of company accounts, activities, ownership and management structures of 2.6 million UK and Irish companies.

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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	Philip Clarke, International Director of IT	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 Gay, Chief Information Officer	95000	N/A
9	Royal Mail Group	Robin Dargue, Chief Information Officer	176000	8 (↓)
10	BT	Al-Noor Ramji, 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	Andrew Davies, Group Strategy Director	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	Dave Haycocks, IT Director	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	Anupam Sahay, Group Strategy & Development Director	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, IT Director	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	Adrian Chen, Group 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	Peter Shuttleworth, Chief Information Officer	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	27541	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 Mobile 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, Chief Technology Officer	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	Caroline Smith, Head of Knowledge and Information Managment	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	Ben Wishart, Change & Information Director	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 (↓)