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.
View the CIO 100 in groups of 20, starting with the top 20 companies in this year's CIO 100.
Financial services
It has been another hugely traumatic year in financial services as companies face repeated shock waves after the collapse in global banking and lending. CIOs are having to act fast to support rapid acquisition, flotation, merger and demerger activity. At the same time they have to re-examine the notion of risk, comply with tightening of corporate governance mandates and cut costs. The rollercoaster shows no sign of stopping.
3. Thomson Reuters
Jane Moran, global CIO for Thomson Reuters, led the integration of the Thomson Corporation and Reuters in 2008 following the Canadian Thomson acquisition of London based Reuters. Today the merged Thomson Reuters has 55,000 employees in 103 countries and provides news, financial, legal and scientific information to many major markets and companies.
14. Visa
CIO Steve Chambers has been spending the last six years developing a European-wide payments platform¬ at Visa Europe with €0.5bn to spend and an 800-plus strong development team.
16. JLT Group
JLT is an international risk specialist and employee benefits organisation; one of the largest companies of its type in the world. It’s a London Stock Exchange listed company with a global presence in the risk and insurance market as well as pensions and benefits sectors, employing over 6000 people worldwide. JLT reported turnover app¬roaching £620m with a profit before tax of around £100m in a difficult market in 2009.
21. JP Morgan Chase
JP Morgan is an international bank heralding from the US. It provides wholesale banking services to corporations as well as sovereign wealth funds and hedge fund services. In the US it is also a consumer facing bank with credit card services.
26. AXA
French insurance giant AXA is ranked as the ninth largest company in the world on revenues. Based in Paris, its divisions and markets are Life & Savings, Property & Casualty, International Insurance, Asset management and Financial Services.
34. Experian
Experian is a FTSE 100 listed global information services company supplying business and financial information, but is more famous for its personal credit check services. It has operations in 41 countries and employs 15,500 people with its primary operational base in Nottingham, England and a corporate headquarters in Dublin. There are significant operations in the US and South America too.
41. BUPA
Private healthcare company Bupa has expanded from Britain to have a presence in three continents and now has 10 million customers in over 200 countries.
45. Lifestyle Services Group
Lifestyle Services Group is a specialist provider of customer loyalty and insurance services for companies delivering financial or telecommunications services to customers.
66. Schroders
British banking and asset management group Schroders is over 200 years old and a global financial powerhouse with 32 offices in 25 countries. Based in the City of London and on the FTSE exchange it employs 2,905 people.
72. The Nottingham Building Society
Nottingham Building Society may be small when compared to some of the behemoths of the UK financial industry landscape, but the Midlands organisation has always been a leader and transformative.
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