Professional Experience
Executive Roles
2023 - Present
Chief Technical Officer
Airband
Leader of the technical functions and member of the executive team for UK alternative broadband provider Airband, focusing on delivering FTTP and FWA networks for rural communities across the UK.
2022 - 2023
Chief Technology and Information Officer
Neos Networks
Leader of the company’s technology functions and member of the ExCo. Responsible for a converged technology strategy across networks and IT.
2016 - 2022
Managing Vice President, Technology Innovation and CTO
Gartner Inc.
Leader of company's global Technology Innovation and CTO group. Research and insights on Enterprise Architecture, Top Strategic Technology Trends, Hypecycle Emerging Technologies. Advisory on AI, Cloud, Digital, Metaverse and RPA.
2015 - 2016
CTO / Head of Digital Business Systems
Network Rail
Joint CTO and design authority for Digital Railway; a multi-billion digital and data transformation of the GB Railways. Chairman of industry steering groups on cybersecurity and data.
2014 - 2015
Vice President, Technology & Delivery and CTO eCompany
Deutsche Telekom AG
Responsible for the technology and delivery organisation in DT group products (DBU). Head of Big Data and API unit and CTO for group's eCompany digital transformation. Deutsche Telekom representative at GSMA.
2011 - 2014
Global IT Director
Logica / GCI
Global IT Director for CGI's value chain domain (sales, marketing, business engineering, delivery and operations). Chief Architect for Logica's group-wide ERP/CRM transformation.
1995 - 2011
Senior R&D Manager
BT Group
Headed R&D in intelligent enterprise technologies. Technology transformation programmes for BT Openreach and BT GS clients. Software innovations in AI, Intelligent Agents and optimisation algorithms.
Education
2003 - 2004
Master of Business Administration
IMD Business School
I earned my MBA in Business Administration from IMD Business School, where I focused on Private Equity and Venture Capital, Knowledge Management, Supply Chain Management.
1994 - 1997
PhD in Computer Science
University of Essex
I earned my PhD in Computer Science from the University of Essex, where I focused on developing a reinforcement learning inspired algorithm for optimisation problems which I named Guided Local Search.
1992 - 1993
MSc in Intelligent Knowledge-Based Systems
University of Essex
I earned my MSc in IKBS from the University of Essex, where I focused on developing neuro-symbolic AI systems based on Fuzzy Logic for autonomous mobile robots.
1987 - 1992
MEng in Electrical Engineering
National Technical University of Athens
I received my Diploma's degree in Electrical Engineering (MEng equivalent) from NTUA, where I focused on developing AI systems for automated hardware design and algorithms for network routing.