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Paul Butler
London Market Technology Director
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