Executive Vice Chair
The Work Foundation

Will Hutton is executive vice chair of The Work Foundation, the most influential voice on work, employment and organization issues in the UK. Regularly called on to advise senior political and business figures and comment in the national and international media, Will is today one of the pre-eminent economics commentators in the country.

Ulrich Loth

Associate
W L Gore & Associates

Ulrich Loth is a Member of the Corporate Leadership Group Europe and Leader, Legal Department of W L Gore & Associates GmbH in Putzbrunn near Munich. Prior to this in 2003, he had responsibility for Human Resources Europe, Legal Department Europe, Corporate PR as well as Networks and Leadership of Corporate Services. In 1991, he became the Leader of the Industrial Products Business having started with W L Gore in 1982 as Leader of New Business.

Thomas Malone

Patrick J McGovern Professor of Management
MIT Sloan School of Management

Thomas Malone is Patrick J McGovern Professor of Management at MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence (CCI), formed in 2006, which studies how new communications technologies, especially the Internet, now allow huge numbers of people all over the globe to work together in new ways.

Alex Mayall

Research Associate
Leading Edge Forum

Currently a Research Associate of the Leading Edge Forum, Alex was previously Managing Director of the programme. Prior to this, he had an international career in the chemicals industry in a range of IT professional and management roles before serving for 10 years as a management consultant with CSC Index, and subsequently with CSC's UK Division.

Kirt Mead

Senior Consultant
Leading Edge Forum

Kirt is a Senior Consultant with the Leading Edge Forum, for which he conducts research projects on a range of issues in the Business/IT interface.

David Moschella

Global Research Director
Leading Edge Forum

David Moschella is the Global Research Director for the Leading Edge Forum. In this position, he guides a series of strategic research initiatives aimed at helping CIOs and other Enterprise IT leaders understand and exploit the ever-expanding intersection between business and information technology. David’s key areas of expertise include globalization, industry restructuring, disruptive technologies, environmental strategies, and the co-evolution of business and IT. His most recent published research is entitled The Next Generation of Digital Game-Changers.

Douglas Neal

Research Fellow
Leading Edge Forum

Doug Neal, based in the United States, is a Research Fellow for the Leading Edge Forum and is responsible for research into The Consumerization of IT. His focus is on the intersection of strategy, business operations and technology. Recent projects have included Preparing for a Post-PC World, Use and Misuse of Collaborative Technologies Handbook, A Workbook for Cloud Computing in the Enterprise, Doing Business in the Cloud, Global Business Collaboration, A Workbook for Harnessing Consumerization and Web 2.0, Green IT – Moving Beyond the 2% Solution, and Harnessing Web 2.0 – Enterprise Strategies for Living on the Web.

Adrian Seccombe

Research Associate
Leading Edge Forum

Adrian Seccombe, based in the UK, is a Research Associate for the Leading Edge Forum. Adrian principally focuses on two research domains – The Consumerization of IT, with particular emphasis on the future of mobility, and Business/IT Co-evolution, with emphasis on managing information as an asset including identity, risk, governance and compliance.

Chris Turner

VP Strategy & Planning and Chief Technology Officer
Unilever

Chris Turner was appointed VP Strategy and Planning and Chief Technology Officer for Unilever IT in 2008, which is a widening of his previous role as Chief Technology Officer. In this role, Chris is responsible for a number of areas including IT Strategy, IT Communications, Architecture and Technology, IT Security and Compliance as well as the Programme and Portfolio offices across the Group.

Simon Wardley

Researcher
Leading Edge Forum

Simon Wardley, based in the UK, is a Researcher for the Leading Edge Forum and his focus is on the intersection of IT strategy and new technologies. Simon's recent research covers subjects including Learning from Web 2.0 and A Lifecycle Approach to Cloud Computing.