CFO Expectations of IT

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The 2012 CIO 100 is our ranking of the top CIOs in the UK. This listing awards the IT leaders and company directors that are transforming their organisations through technology leadership.

Every company here is listed by rank one to 100. Click on the rank, company name, CIO name, employees and previous year rank to sort the listing into an order that suits your research needs.

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Rank Company name CIOs name Prev Yr Rank
1 Ministry of Defence John Taylor, director of group information 1 (=)
2 Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs Deepak Singh, CIO 2 (=)
3 Royal Bank of Scotland Group David Lister, chief architect 3 (=)
4 BT Al-Noor Ramji, BT Design chief executive 4 (=)
5 Department for Work & Pensions Joe Harley, IT director general and CIO 5 (=)
6 Unilever Neil Cameron, global CIO 9 (↑)
7 DHL Nigel Underwood, CIO 12 (↑)
8 Royal Mail Group Robin Dargue, Group CIO and Technology Director 6 (↓)
9 Lloyds TSB Group Darryl West, director of group IT 7 (↓)
10 HBOS Heather Jackson, director of group services 8 (↓)
11 BP Dana Deasy, Group Vice President IT&S 10 (↓)
12 Tesco Philip Clarke, Asia, Europe and IT director 11 (↓)
13 GlaxoSmithKline Bill Louv, CIO 13 (=)
14 BAE Systems Chris Coupland, director of the Corporate IT Office 18 (↑)
15 ASDA Howard Reed - IT Director 40 (↑)
16 HSBC Rumi Contractor, CIO Europe 14 (↓)
17 Royal Dutch/Shell Swee Chen Goh, VP Global IT Services N/A
18 Barclays Don Trotta, CIO 15 (↓)
19 Deloitte & Touche LLP Mary Hensher UK director of Technology 60 (↑)
20 Centrica None at present 16 (↓)
21 Rentokil Initial Bryan Kinsella, CIO 26 (↑)
22 J Sainsbury Angela Morrison, director of European strategy 19 (↓)
23 The Metropolitan Police Ailsa Beaton, director of information 20 (↓)
24 Co-operative Group Gerry Pennell, CIO 17 (↓)
25 AstraZeneca UK Richard Williams, Global CIO 81 (↑)
26 BOC Ronald Gieger, Head of Group Information Services N/A
27 Home Office Vincent Geake, CIO 21 (↓)
28 John Lewis Partnership Phil Hullah 22 (↓)
29 Rolls Royce Jonathan Mitchell, CIO and director of BPI 23 (↓)
30 Wm Morrison Supermarkets Gary Barr, IT Director N/A
31 Reuters None at present 24 (↓)
32 WPP David Nicoll, CIO 70 (↑)
33 BA Paul Coby, CIO 27 (↓)
34 KPMG LLP Bryan Clark, Partner and CIO, KPMG Europe LLP 54 (↑)
35 BBC Keith Little, CIO 25 (↓)
36 Department of Constitutional Affairs Yvonne Gallagher, eDelivery Group CIO 28 (↓)
37 Balfour Beatty Darryn Warner, Chief Information Officer 41 (↑)
38 Alliance Boots None at present 30 (↓)
39 Birmingham City Council Steve Glaze 58 (↑)
40 Kingfisher Jean Jacques Van Oosten, CIO 55 (↑)
41 Network Rail Catherine Doran, information management director 31 (↓)
42 Carillion Steve Connor, N/A
43 ICI Shakeel Mozaffar, Group VP of Procurement and Technology N/A
44 BUPA John Lister, group IS director 32 (↓)
45 Compass Group Bob Lonsdale, UK IT director 33 (↓)
46 National Grid Kathy Lane, Chief Information Officer 56 (↑)
47 WH Smith Peter Swann, IT director 34 (↓)
48 Aviva Matt Fahy, group IT director 36 (↓)
49 Arriva Ian Gerrard, group IT manager 35 (↓)
50 Whitbread Ben Wishart, Change and Information Director N/A
51 Fife Council Terry Trundley, CIO 68 (↑)
52 Nationwide Building Society Michael Humphreys 43 (↓)
53 Diageo Brian Franz, CIO N/A
54 Virgin Media Howard Watson, CTO & CIO 49 (↓)
55 McDonald’s Restaurants Ivan Brooks, head of IT 42 (↓)
56 Kent County Council David Cockburn, director of business solutions and policy 38 (↓)
57 Hampshire County Council Jos Creese, Head of IT N/A
58 Ford of Europe Bill Fairclough 39 (↓)
59 Orange Peter Marsden, Vice-President IT & Networks 63 (↑)
60 Serco Group Darryn Gibson, CIO 45 (↓)
61 JP Morgan Chase Guy Chiarello 44 (↓)
62 Home Retail Group Pete Connor, IS director 46 (↓)
63 Marks & Spencer Group Daryl Stein 53 (↓)
64 PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Dominique Moreau, Head of Global Technical Services N/A
65 Leeds City Council Dylan Roberts, head of ICT 48 (↓)
66 Manchester City Council Pauline Owens 51 (↓)
67 SPAR UK Roy Ford IT Controller 52 (↓)
68 AMEC Russ Harker, Global Head of IT 95 (↑)
69 Somerfield Mike Bell, business systems director 50 (↓)
70 RWE Npower Michael Semrau, Global CIO N/A
71 EDF Energy Nigel Stevens, managing director business improvement & technology 66 (↓)
72 Nestlé Lisa Gill, Director of IS 91 (↑)
73 Glasgow City Council Duncan Mackison 57 (↓)
74 Ladbrokes Chris Lindsay, IT Director N/A
75 Sky Didier Lebrat, CTO 86 (↑)
76 DEFRA CIO Chris Chant 79 (↑)
77 T-Mobile Dirk Rohweder, director of IT 71 (↓)
78 O2 Derek McManus, CTO N/A
79 Vodafone Jeni Mundy, CTO 76 (↓)
80 WS Atkins Lesley Hume, IS director 74 (↓)
81 Foreign & Commonwealth Office Tony Mather, CIO 75 (↓)
82 Land Rover and Jaguar Michael Ali 73 (↓)
83 Surrey County Council Jane Last/David Rees, Acting Heads of IMT 85 (↑)
84 BAA Philip Langsdale, CIO 92 (↑)
85 West Sussex County Council Paul Brocklehurst 67 (↓)
86 Liverpool City Council Colin Hilton, Chief Executive of Liverpool City Council 77 (↓)
87 G4S No overall head - each division has its own IT director 87 (=)
88 Lancashire County Council Bill Brown, CIO 59 (↓)
89 Essex County Council Ben Darlington, Head of Information Services 62 (↓)
90 British Energy Derek Wilde, CIO 90 (=)
91 Scottish & Newcastle Jeremy Louden, IT Manager 89 (↓)
92 Royal & SunAlliance James de Watteville, UK CIO 80 (↓)
93 Trinity Mirror Tony Pusey, Group IT Director 83 (↓)
94 Standard Life Group Keith Young, IT director 94 (=)
95 ITV Richard Cross, Group Technology Director N/A
96 Department for Transport Eamonn McDonough, Head of IT Services 96 (=)
97 Comet Group Kevin O’Brien, head of IS 93 (↓)
98 Sunderland City Council Steve Leggetter 97 (↓)
99 Arcadia Group Andrew Clarke, Group IT Director 98 (↓)
100 Lincolnshire County Council Harry Campbell, IT Manager N/A

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