eHampshire Conferences
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The Right Connections - Technology for Business and Society
Thursday 8th October 2009, Winchester Guildhall Dr Steve Garnett - Chairman EMEA, Salesforce.com
Steve Garnett has had one of the most distinguished careers of any European executive in the software industry. Garnett has been a member of the executive management team of three software startups that have each turned into some of the most successful software companies in history.
Garnett started his career joining Oracle Corporation prior to its IPO in 1986. He held various technical and sales positions including Director of UK sales, Vice President European Marketing & Alliances and was the youngest member of the European management team. He was at Oracle Corporation for 12 years as the company grew to become the world’s 2nd largest software company. Garnett joined Siebel Systems in 1996 as Vice President of Europe and a member of the founders circle. From a 100 employees the company grew in eight years to become the worlds 5th largest software company with 8,000 employees and a $60b market capitalization at its peak.
In 2004 Steve joined his former Oracle executive colleague Marc Benioff to head Europe operations and be part of the executive team at salesforce.com. He helped take salesforce.com public in 2004 and the company’s market capitalization has been as high as $8b. Garnett has been lauded as one of BusinessWeek’s Top 100 Most Innovative Companies, named No. 7 on The WIRED 40, and selected as a Top Ten Disrupter by Forbes. Throughout his career, Garnett has been committed to using his resources to produce positive social change for under served children. He is a board member at TeachFirst an organization focused on eradication of educational disadvantage in inner city schools in the UK. He has a degree in mathematics and a doctorate in theoretical physics from the University of Manchester, and holds a number of professional affiliations and board positions.
An interview with Steve Garnett can be viewed below. Chris Blenkhorn - Solutions Architect, Cisco Systems Inc
Chris is a member of Cisco’s UK Public Sector Team, where he has specialised in public service IT and networking for nearly ten years.
He works with Cisco customers to establish the strategic link between business requirements and ICT products and technologies. In this role he has authored a series of papers including the Cisco Framework for Communities and Local Government which explain how technology can transform the services Local Authorities deliver and how a regional ICT strategy can change the way we Live, Work, Play and Learn. He is a Chartered Engineer and has worked in networking and communications for over 25 years. Chris contributes to http://theconnectedrepublic.org, a community space initiated by Cisco's IBSG, where people interested in public sector transformation can meet each other and share their ideas. David Livermore - Chairman, eHampshire Partnership
David Livermore joined IBM from Cambridge in 1961, pursued a career primarily in sales and marketing and was Sales Director for seven years and then Director of Group Staff. He left IBM in 1992 and became Group Managing Director of RAC Motoring Services until 1996. He was also a non-executive director of Triplex Lloyd and Doncasters plc from 1990 until 2002. He became a non-executive director in the NHS in 1990 and in 1996 he was appointed Chairman of the Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare Trust.
In the voluntary sector, he was Chairman of the RNID from 1995 until 2002 and has been Chairman of The Computability Centre from 1992 and then of its successor, AbilityNet, from 1998 onwards. He also chairs Deafness Research and is a member of the Disability Panel of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists. He is a governor of the Mary Hare School for the Deaf and a trustee of both INTECH (now Chairman) and the Naomi Trust. In 1998 he became Chairman of the Newbury Spring Festival.
David has also chaired four eHampshire Conferences, the first taking place in 2004.
Peter Murnaghan FCILT – Project Manager, Transport for South Hampshire
Peter Murnaghan is the Project Manager for the Transport for South Hampshire network. This involves planning the transport requirements to meet the growth and regeneration of South Hampshire over the coming 20 years. The partnership involves transport operators, public authorities and private stakeholders working together to help deliver transport improvements in a joined-up manner. Peter has some 40 years experience in the transport industry, being with Hampshire since 1988. He has led a transport planning team delivering improvement measures as part of the Hampshire county Council’s Local Transport Plan. He has also managed a number of European transport projects which have delivered innovative solutions at home and abroad. Before joining Hampshire, Peter worked in the rail industry, a transport consultancy and in the public transport areas of East Sussex and Kent County Councils. Peter is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and, in his spare time, is a trustee of a charity involved in transport heritage. Paul Johnston - Head of European Public Sector Team, Internet Business Solutions Group, Cisco Systems Inc
Paul Johnston heads the European public sector team in Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG). Prior to joining Cisco, he led the local government team at the UK Treasury, where he worked with a succession of Chief Secretaries to the Treasury. As a policy advisor, he shaped the UK government’s 2000 housing white paper, helped finalize the UK’s market abuse legislation, and played a significant role in three Spending Reviews. Prior to joining the treasury, he worked at a senior level for three different public sector organizations. He also had a successful career as a journalist, working for Reuters in London, Bonn, and Frankfurt, as a producer for the BBC and as lobby correspondent for Tyne Tees Television.
Johnston has written a wide range of thought-leadership papers during his time at Cisco including The Connected Republic 2.0. This paper (which he wrote with colleague Martin Stewart Weeks) explores the potential impact of Web 2.0 on the public sector. The ideas expressed in it are being further developed via www.theconnectedrepublic.org. Jerome de Chassey - Regional Director, London and the Home Counties, BT Openreach
Jerome de Chassey is the Regional Director for London and the Home Counties for Openreach, part of the BT Group. He is responsible for the Openreach access network (the communications network linking tens of millions of homes and businesses in Britain to their Communications Providers' networks) and the thousands of telephone engineers maintaining it in this region. This responsibility includes the successful deployment of BT’s £1.5 billion investment programme in Next Generation Access technology, announced in July 2008, which will see 10 million homes and businesses able to enjoy speeds of up to 40 Megabits and beyond by 2012 from multiple service providers.
Prior to this, Jerome held a number of roles in BT Group, including Head of Business Management for field services, and General Manager for Strategic Marketing for BT Major Business, a BT Retail business unit serving large UK corporate & government customers.
Before joining the BT Group, Jerome was a senior consultant with leading global business and strategy consulting firm Bain and Company, where he advised public and private company CEOs, board of directors and private equity investors on strategic and operational issues.
Jerome also spent a number of years in the Marine Nationale, or French Navy, where he was mainly stationed in the Middle East and Africa. Here he held the role of Lieutenant, reporting to Captain as Officer of the Watch aboard the warship Foudre. |