Bob Hayward joined CSC on 1 April 2009 as Chief Technology and Innovation Officer for CSC Australia and CSC Asia.  Bob will also lead the LEF programme in the Asia/Pacific region.

Prior to joining CSC, Bob was a Director of IT Services for KPMG Australia, where he advised the global managing partner for IT Services at KPMG on emerging technologies and helped create new international services matched to these growth opportunities. In addition, Bob led the Australian Sustainable IT service line.  In November 2008, Bob was nominated as a Director on the board of the Australian Information Industries Association (AIIA) and was elected at the first board meeting to lead the national AIIA Environmentally Sustainable IT task force.

Until April 2006, Bob was Senior Vice President and Research Fellow Asia Pacific and Japan for Gartner, and was the first employee of Gartner in the Asia Pacific region, joining the firm in 1995.  He has previously held executive positions with Candle Corporation, gained the distribution rights for Tivoli Systems in Asia Pacific through Qualix, his own company, and has co-founded or launched several other ICT firms in the USA, Australia and Asia.

Bob has been a member of the Shanghai and Dalian Government IT Expert Advisory Boards and was an ICT advisor to the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games.

In 2000, Bob co-founded InQbator on the Gold Coast, Australia, which has gone on to become Australia’s most successful technology incubator and for which he still provides advice and guidance.

Bob is a significant recognised contributor to two Harvard Press books, The New CIO Leader by Broadbent/Kitzis and IT and the East by Iyengar/Popkin.

Bob attended Newcastle University in the UK where he studied Computer Science.

Bob is based in Sydney, NSW.