About Paul Butler

I have held CIO, CTO, CDO, and Board Member positions in various sectors including Insurance, Banking, B2B and Data Analytics & Market Research - mostly at fast growing, and highly successful customer-centric businesses. I’ve been accountable and lead tech and data teams in highly regulated Banking and Insurance businesses and also fast paced and high growth start-ups. In the first 15 years of my 30 year tech career I primarily worked in senior engineer and lead architect roles. Over the last 15 years I have been instrumental in leading high revenue / growth companies with transformative, impactful tech and data strategies to enable businesses to be data driven and technically mature. I have been responsible for ensuring the businesses I have worked at have the insights, technical teams / skills, scalable and compliant technologies in place to: • impress and retain customers • facilitate rapid revenue growth • react quickly to new opportunities / ever-changing circumstances • deliver company objectives and desired outcomes within budget (up to £40m p.a.) • attract and retain the best industry talent I have been accountable for: • Digital Transformation and Overall Tech and Data Strategies • Data Science, Data Engineering, Data Analytics, Data Operations and Business Intelligence • Software Engineering, UI/UX and DevOps, including App and New Product Development • Agile Practices and Change Management – mostly SCRUM and Kanban • Network, Infrastructure, Security, Recovery, Converged Communications – On Premises, VPC, Hybrid and Cloud (AWS, Azure and GCP) • Building highly engaged and effective "Risk Free" Tech and Data Teams - Recruitment, Mentoring, Talent Retention, Servant Leadership, and Creating an Empowering and Trusting Culture • Partner & Vendor Management, Relationship Building, Negotiations and Offshoring / Nearshoring