A pioneer of today’s Internet in the seventies (at MIT) Roger Camrass has been helping organisations across the Globe harness the power of new technologies and methods for over five decades.

As a thought leader, business executive and part time academic, Roger has introduced a succession of innovations including digital networking in the seventies, outsourcing and call centres in the eighties, business reengineering and third generation mobile networks in the nineties, e-commerce in 2000 and more recently cloud and 5G.

Accountable for the delivery of IT and Digital services for the University of Manchester. Since joining in 2016 we have embarked on a significant journey of transformation to create a set of capabilities that will support the university strategy over the next 5 years.

We have put in place strategic partnerships through an innovative hybrid delivery framework to help us to deliver our Student Lifecycle Project, a transformative software defined and adaptive network service and a contemporary End User Compute capability.

We have set up an innovation capability to enable us to exploit Robotics, AI and chatbots to deliver services to students and staff and have created a new Analytics capability to serve the information needs of the University. All of this is underpinned by a Target Operating Model for IT that is based on industry standard capabilities (IT4IT) with a focus on delivering digital services for the future.

CIO UK top CIO for 2019 and Malcolm has previously worked AT RSA, DWP and is currently CIO at University of Manchester.