CISO Ireland Summit

Senior c-suite executive with over 20 year’s experience in global IT support services and organizations across retail, financial, manufacturing and healthcare industries. Chief information officer reporting directly to the CEO with overall IT leadership for the Maxol group. Responsible for 237 retail stores, 3 Head offices, a manufacturing warehouse. Overall responsibility for additional areas of cyber security and GDPR for the Maxol Group. Previous work experience in global retail and pharmaceutical environments in Applegreen, Lidl with and extensive career in Colgate Palmolive for over 9 years working through various role up to a senior global IT manager. Summarisation of IT leadership experience •Head of IT Operations for Applegreen with overall IT leadership. Responsible for 500 retail stores, Head offices, distribution centre and fuel terminals in Ireland, UK and US supporting over 11,000 employees including offshore outsourced technical and financial services organisations in India. •Head of IT Projects & Operations for Lidl Ireland with overall leadership for project and operations. Responsible for management and implementation for 190 retail stores and 4 distribution centres in Ireland supporting over 5,000 employees. International IT and business strategy alignment with IT global functions in Germany. •Management of globally dispersed IT teams with overall responsibility of all centralized IT software operations for 36,000 users in 224 sites across 180 countries. Providing strategic direction of all operations including fostering process implementation and standardization for global IT functions while stimulating and shaping the demand for IT services. Delivery of people leadership for team development and utilization for successful provision of IT services globally.

Dr Christopher Royles, Principal Systems Engineer Chris is a Principal Systems Engineer at Cloudera helping organisations deliver actionable insight from vast and complex data. He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence, having interests in Semantic, Linked and Open Data domains. Chris has advised on Government Open Data initiatives as part of the Open Data User Group (ODUG) and sat on the quick wins stream of the UK Government Cloud Program (GCloud). Prior to joining Cloudera Chris was an Architect at Oracle focused on the Discovery and Big Data Analytics portfolio. While at Pitney Bowes, Chris designed and brought to market MapInfo Crime Profiler that is used globally to maximize resourcing of law enforcement agencies.

Eoin is a 40-year veteran of the IT industry. During his career, he has worked in all aspects of the industry from programmer to consultant, and for major international tech players such as Intel and Dell, as well as many domestic companies. He has managed the acquisition and successful commissioning of multi-million-dollar systems and has worked on several transformation projects. He has contributed to research projects with Trinity College Dublin in the area of Delay Tolerant Networking. He has experience of manufacturing, finance, telecommunications, and research, and gained an MSc in Internet of Things before it was called the Internet of Things! He is a Fellow of the Irish Computer Society, and the first Chartered IT Professional chartered by the Irish Computer Society. He has lectured at bachelor’s and master’s degree level in the areas of Networking, Programming, IT Management, Computer Architecture and Operating System principles. Eoin is currently overseeing a major digital transformation project for a large nationwide Irish charity with nearly 1,000 members and a fleet of 38 ambulances. This includes designing and driving a corporate IT strategy to modernise operations in an increasingly regulated environment.

Richard Meeus, Security Technology and Strategy Director, Akamai Technologies. Richard Meeus has over 20 years of experience in designing and building secure solutions working as pre/post-sales, in addition to consulting roles. He has worked on some of the world's largest enterprise security solutions through Mirapoint, to being a key pre-sales component of Prolexic as it spearheaded the DDOS protection space.

Eoin is a CIO and CISO with over 25 years’ experience in regulated industries. He is a passionate advocate for the convergence of Service Management, Development, Security and Privacy. He holds the following certifications: CISSP, ISSMP, ISSAP, ISSEP, CISA, CRISC, ISO 27001 LA and CIPP/E

Jeff Manning is Centripetal’s Chief Revenue Officer. In this role he is responsible for the company’s worldwide go-to-market, leveraging a career that spans over 25 years of leadership roles in sales, business development, marketing, fund raising, and M&A in the networking and security industries. Mr Manning has held senior Executive roles with Cybera, Cradlepoint, Motorola, AirDefense, and Lucent Technologies He remains an active Alumni Advisor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he studied Law and Psychology and conducted his postgraduate professional studies at Cornell and Columbia University. Jeff lives in the greater Boston area.

James Louttit, Chief Information Officer, Cpl. Louttit became CIO of Cpl in February 2018. His career has spanned all elements of IT, from early days as a developer, tester and business analyst through the ranks of increasingly complex project and programme management roles in Retail, Healthcare, Financial Services and Recruitment. He has led the communities of practice for IT Analysis & Design and Project Management and is a passionate advocate for sustainable IT work – meaning a sensible work / life balance. Since joining Cpl, he has led a full agile transformation of Cpl’s IT delivery and led the team that won the 2020 Technology Transformation “Tiara” award. In his spare time, Louttit runs a regular LinkedIn vlog on Successful Careers in IT and Project Management tips https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-louttit/

Eoin is a 40-year veteran of the IT industry. During his career, he has worked in all aspects of the industry from programmer to consultant, and for major international tech players such as Intel and Dell, as well as many domestic companies. He has managed the acquisition and successful commissioning of multi-million-dollar systems and has worked on several transformation projects. He has contributed to research projects with Trinity College Dublin in the area of Delay Tolerant Networking. He has experience of manufacturing, finance, telecommunications, and research, and gained an MSc in Internet of Things before it was called the Internet of Things! He is a Fellow of the Irish Computer Society, and the first Chartered IT Professional chartered by the Irish Computer Society. He has lectured at bachelor’s and master’s degree level in the areas of Networking, Programming, IT Management, Computer Architecture and Operating System principles. Eoin is currently overseeing a major digital transformation project for a large nationwide Irish charity with nearly 1,000 members and a fleet of 38 ambulances. This includes designing and driving a corporate IT strategy to modernise operations in an increasingly regulated environment.

Stuart is an experienced technology leader with over 25 years of experience across the private and public sector, predominantly in the heavily regulated financial services industry. He is responsible for Goodbody’s technology strategy, infrastructure architecture and information security in addition to leading the delivery of key technology change and operational management of the firm’s technology services and outsourced/managed service providers. He has a track record of successfully delivering innovative technology solutions and strategic transformation initiatives supporting the firm’s overall business strategy whilst ensuring regulatory compliance, security, resilience and availability.

Senior c-suite executive with over 20 year’s experience in global IT support services and organizations across retail, financial, manufacturing and healthcare industries. Chief information officer reporting directly to the CEO with overall IT leadership for the Maxol group. Responsible for 237 retail stores, 3 Head offices, a manufacturing warehouse. Overall responsibility for additional areas of cyber security and GDPR for the Maxol Group. Previous work experience in global retail and pharmaceutical environments in Applegreen, Lidl with and extensive career in Colgate Palmolive for over 9 years working through various role up to a senior global IT manager. Summarisation of IT leadership experience •Head of IT Operations for Applegreen with overall IT leadership. Responsible for 500 retail stores, Head offices, distribution centre and fuel terminals in Ireland, UK and US supporting over 11,000 employees including offshore outsourced technical and financial services organisations in India. •Head of IT Projects & Operations for Lidl Ireland with overall leadership for project and operations. Responsible for management and implementation for 190 retail stores and 4 distribution centres in Ireland supporting over 5,000 employees. International IT and business strategy alignment with IT global functions in Germany. •Management of globally dispersed IT teams with overall responsibility of all centralized IT software operations for 36,000 users in 224 sites across 180 countries. Providing strategic direction of all operations including fostering process implementation and standardization for global IT functions while stimulating and shaping the demand for IT services. Delivery of people leadership for team development and utilization for successful provision of IT services globally.

Eoin is a CIO and CISO with over 25 years’ experience in regulated industries. He is a passionate advocate for the convergence of Service Management, Development, Security and Privacy. He holds the following certifications: CISSP, ISSMP, ISSAP, ISSEP, CISA, CRISC, ISO 27001 LA and CIPP/E

Stuart is an experienced technology leader with over 25 years of experience across the private and public sector, predominantly in the heavily regulated financial services industry. He is responsible for Goodbody’s technology strategy, infrastructure architecture and information security in addition to leading the delivery of key technology change and operational management of the firm’s technology services and outsourced/managed service providers. He has a track record of successfully delivering innovative technology solutions and strategic transformation initiatives supporting the firm’s overall business strategy whilst ensuring regulatory compliance, security, resilience and availability.

James Louttit, Chief Information Officer, Cpl. Louttit became CIO of Cpl in February 2018. His career has spanned all elements of IT, from early days as a developer, tester and business analyst through the ranks of increasingly complex project and programme management roles in Retail, Healthcare, Financial Services and Recruitment. He has led the communities of practice for IT Analysis & Design and Project Management and is a passionate advocate for sustainable IT work – meaning a sensible work / life balance. Since joining Cpl, he has led a full agile transformation of Cpl’s IT delivery and led the team that won the 2020 Technology Transformation “Tiara” award. In his spare time, Louttit runs a regular LinkedIn vlog on Successful Careers in IT and Project Management tips https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-louttit/

Tony is VP of IT Operations and Information Security at Marken who provide flexible supply chain solutions for the clinical trial landscape. He started his career in electronics and transitioned into Information Technology where he began to focus in cybersecurity. Tony worked in consultancy for several years providing IT services and building environments for banking, telecoms, government, UN and EU agencies. Over the last 20 years, Tony has provided IT & security services to several organisations across a wide variety of industries before specialising in healthcare. His previous role was Head of Information Security with ICON Clinical Research where he led a global security team and won several Cybersecurity awards. He is a strong believer in contributing to the IT & security community and is currently chair of the Health-ISAC European Council. Tony has been a speaker and expert panel participant discussing cybersecurity topics across European and US security conferences including H-ISAC, ISACA & OWASP events. He holds a M.Sc. in Security and Forensic computing and an M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence, a post-graduate certificate in Artificial Intelligence, drug development and numerous IT, cybersecurity, privacy and artificial intelligence certifications. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonyclarke/

Subeer is a Senior IT Leader at Novartis with 23 years of global experience in pharmaceutical and IT domains. Currently based in Dublin, Ireland. He has a track record of setting up, scaling and leading IT verticals/LOBs around Digital & Omni channel. Subeer has his Expertise in Product Management, Scaled Agile(SAFe), service strategy planning, budgeting, P&L management, service operations, technology & digital services. He has driven end-to-end global programs & services , with focus on building corporate competencies and is skilled in engineering new services by leveraging technologies and creating business differentiators across all phases of business – start-up, growth and maturity.

Barbara Skerritt MBA, Director, Innovation Delivery, ICON, has almost 30 years experience spanning across clinical research, data management, data science and analytics and patient reported outcomes research. Barbara led the ICHOM benchmarking pilot program and works on initiatives to make healthcare more equitable for all of society by measuring outcomes that matter to the patient. Barbara currently leads a number of game changing innovative projects while keeping the patient front and center at all times. Barbara has been a DIBs advocate for many years, and founded Women in IT@ICON with the full endorsement of the CIO. Barbara sits on the Advisory Board of Global Digital Health Network, advising on content development and delivery of the GRIT International Accelerator program for women in life sciences. She also sits on the Technical University Dublin’s Advisory Board for the MBA Alumni advising on course content and Alumni engagement. Barbara is a facilitator for Google’s IamRemarkable initiative, which strives to empower underrepresented groups to speak openly about their accomplishments. She has also has published in multiple academic & industry journals. Barbara has been an active leader throughout her career, and advocate of mentoring future women leaders of the pharmaceutical industry.