About Us 

CIO Connect’s purpose is to advise and guide those of you in the C Suite and  your leadership teams. Every organisation is undertaking some form of digital transformation and our aim is to ensure that you are successful.  

To achieve that:

• We foster a close partnership with each and every CXO, working to your agenda in order to help you reach your goals.

• We bring an external viewpoint and a pragmatic approach, as your trusted advisor. 

• Our experienced practitioners dovetail their specialist knowledge with your current state of maturity to achieve  your objectives.

• We lead masterclasses, workshops and coach individuals to achieve agreed outcomes. 

• We prepare IT Leaders for the future, we prepare other leaders for a future that embraces technology.

• We operate in the five areas that are critical to the modern C Suite; Strategy, Security & Risk, Finance, Business Intelligence and Leadership.

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How we work

advisory service

We focus on your key business imperatives. Our way of working is to work with and through your leadership team, so they ‘own’ the result. Knowledge transfer happens as an integral part of our approach and your own leadership team will develop in skills and confidence through this assignment. 

masterclasses

Masterclass are a catalyst for change. In the Masterclass, we bring our expertise on a specific topic to you and your team in a classroom-like setting.  One-to-one follow-up is conducted to ensure the change is embedded.

mentoring / coaching

CIO Connect’s mentoring and coaching is delivered as part of an overall leadership initiative to a board, business peers or department or on an individual basis.

leadership

CIO Connect has developed, over many years, a programme that takes IT leaders through key leadership transitions. In recognition of today’s leaders workload the programme has been restructured to include a combination of video conference modules, face to face lectures and case study work.

Your Trusted Advisors

As your most trusted advisor, we bring an external viewpoint and a pragmatic approach.

Our experienced practitioners dovetail their specialist knowledge with your personal experiences and objectives.

Strategy

Barbara Dossetter

With years of business and IT strategy, leadership and programme management experience, Barb leads the practice of like-minded people focussed on the client’s success. She has advised and coached more than 300 CIOs and senior IT leaders in Asia Pacific, Europe and the US across a broad range of topics. As a practitioner she has been engaged in traditional IT, innovative start-ups and company recoveries. She speaks at conferences as a thought leader.

Key passion: Two areas still energise Barb today – the use of technology to drive an organisation forward and diversity in organisations through education and encouragement. Barb believes that these two elements are critical to success in today’s environment.

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LAWRENCE ANG

Lawrence has more than 20 years experience as CIO, the latest being as the former CIO of Singapore’s integrated financial regulator and central bank which manages more than $400 billion of foreign reserves. He was worked extensively in both the financial industry and public sector across the Asia Pacific region. Lawrence had also served in homeland & cyber defence, dotcoms, telcos and charity sectors during his 33 years of IT adventure.  

Key passion:  People being front and centre. Mentoring People across the spectrum from senior IT and business leaders to students, empowering them with tools and frameworks for success in their digitalisation journeys. Also advising charities and companies on IT governance and portfolio management, as well as IT partners with market-making strategies.

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john locke

John is a highly motivated and former CIO/CTO demonstrating over 30 plus years of experience driving game-changing technology-driven and business-centric transformations within multi-national organisations globally. He helps formulate and deliver effective strategies facilitating increases in business performance in terms of capability, efficiency, customer satisfaction and profitability.

Key passion: Steering organisations in the challenging technology landscape in meeting business imperatives.

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andrew cline

Andrew is the former CIO of a $10 Billion enterprise and a consultant for 20 plus years. Andrew works with IT leaders and their organizations to help them regain control of projects. He also helps CIOs to become high performing and respected partners to the business and continues mentoring and coaching senior IT leaders.

Key passion:  Seeing leaders mature in experience and be promoted. Also assisting enterprise level companies in South East Asia and Australia to save large projects that are failing due to major time budget and scope issues. Showing how to launch and manage successful mission critical enterprise projects and so avoid pitfalls.  

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daryl dunbar

Daryl is a master of business rescue and development combining entrepreneurial creativity and pragmatic discipline. He works with organisations ranging from start-ups to large multinational and not-for-profit corporations, particularly in the areas of strategy, innovation, technology, operations, business design, corporate development, and venture capital. He is the Strategy Lecturer for IME in Singapore and a regular guest lecturer at MIT on innovation in large organisations.

Key passion: Assisting public and private companies with portfolio strategy, market creation, market expansion, process development and innovation across all areas of business.

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sandra interdonato

With years of experience in investment and operational management, finance and professional services, Sandra brings extensive experience at the COO level. Having established and managed entire business operations in both startups and operational businesses, Sandra has worked across Asia, Australia and the UAE. Sandra advises and coaches executives and leaders to create successful businesses whilst developing their teams.

Key passion: Working with leaders to design and translate strategic vision into action, and driving and managing strategic and operational alignment across functions and geographies. Critical to this is delivering results whilst improving processes and outcomes, and building high performing teams.

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Olivia Chang

Olivia is a thought leader and practitioner in driving business digital transformation and sustainable growth through technology enablement and leveraging the innovation ecosystem. She has over 30 years of solid IT experience with more than 25 years in regional/global CIO roles in well-renowned multi-national corporations including Coca-Cola, Bacardi, Kraft Foods and Philip Morris. In recent years, she blends her deep expertise in driving successful corporate digital transformation with building her entrepreneurial digital startup network. To win in the rapid changing world nowadays, Olivia believes IT has a key role to play and companies need to address 3 dimensions of IT: Company Culture & Talents, Transparent IT Vision & Blueprint, and Open Innovation Ecosystem.

Key passion: Helping companies and CIOs (with specific focus in Asia and China) in their digital transformation journey. 2 areas in particular excites Olivia: integrating the use of technology with business model to deliver value and sustainable growth, seeing the growth and recognition of the IT talents.

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john heger

As the senior executive John has led several technology companies who successfully supply services into industry. Recognising the importance of people, processes and technology working together for success, John has balanced all three elements in many multi-national and national organisations. He is particularly successful in supplier acquisition, supplier contract negotiation and ongoing supplier management.

Key passion: John is motivated by the use of technology to further the aims of the organisation. Today that means working with strategic suppliers building a win/win partnership and integrating them into the overall environment and culture.

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Ian Parker

Ian combines practitioner experience at CIO level in both MNC and successful digital start up in the insurance and finance industry, after a period in the mining industry. Bringing large transformation projects in on time, is his strength. Then, add a start-up in a highly regulated business which is breaking new ground in the industry and with the regulator -  Ian is a problem solver.

 Key passion: To develop a strategic plan, implement that plan and see it be delivered successfully is the reason why Ian ‘gets up in the morning’. Make it a game changing plan and its even more interesting.

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Security & Risk

Anthony bargar

Anthony has served in senior positions within the Financial Services Sector, United States Dept. of Defense and Intelligence Community.  Anthony was on the team that re-wrote the United States cyber strategy, supported US Homeland Security Infrastructure Protection, Resilience, Business Continuity and National Telecommunication programs.

Key passion: Making organisations more resilient to bad actors by helping clients develop their cyber resilience through cyber operations processes and the implementation of advanced counter measures.

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Business Intelligence

Steve Remington

Steve is a business analytics and data warehousing consultant, trainer and researcher with over 25 years of experience.  Steve helps organisations implement cost-effective operational reporting, dashboards, business intelligence, business analytics and data warehousing systems that focus on solving business problems rather than just implementing a technology.

Key passion: Evangelist for organising the customer journey. The customer journey and journey analytics where data can produce game changing insights and decisions.

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Phil Hassey

Phil has been an independent advisor for companies globally for over 20 years. He has worked on every continent with technology and business leaders in organisations large and small helping them understand their investment in technology, how all facets of these investments from data, to sourcing, change management and governance impact the success of these investment programs for customer, employee and business outcomes. 

Key Passion: Acting as a devils advocate for clients in order to provide client leadership unique and insightful perspectives on how to advance business outcomes. Finding unintended consequences, for better or worse of business and technology decisions enables stronger outcomes which drive business processes for organisational success.

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Leadership

Dr John Kenworthy

John’s cultural fluency stems from over twenty years of experience in business extending across industries and across the globe and is thus well placed to help business leaders achieve their full potential especially in the international environment. Highly pragmatic in nature, John, a leadership development coach, brings a rare ability to leverage the best of leaders’ skills with a strong strategic business focus to clients and their organisations to get the results they want.

John earned his Doctorate of Business Administration from Henley Management College specialising in The Evaluation of Leadership and Management Competencies and Learning and continues to research and lead in the field. He has undertaken primary research in Singapore and Malaysia on effective management and leadership competency frameworks and has developed a powerful generic framework and assessment system validated and reliability tested in Singapore.

Key passion: As a certified Leadership coach and trainer, John combines his strong business acumen with a passion for understanding how people learn and develop their skills and knowledge.

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Leigh Snelling

Leigh is a multi-talented, highly experiences professional trainer, coach, consultant and senior manager. Leigh leads our highly successful Women Leading  programme, Coaching our Teams and other leadership masterclasses. Leigh coaches executives in leadership skills recognising the corporate environment challenges. Her coaching clients implement effective team practices, by emphasising presentation skills, influencing competencies and leadership capabilities.

Key passion: Developing women in and for senior leadership roles and seeing them promoted.

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How to engage with us

discuss your challenge

Meet with an Advisory Service Director to discuss your key challenges 

bespoke proposal

CIO Connect will provide you with a bespoke discussion document, outlining how best to solve your challenge with the most successful outcome.  Offering the most cost effective solution.

meet your expert

Meet your expert Advisor(s) and finalise outcome of engagement.  

Sign & commit to proposal.

Engage

Engagement begins with your Trusted Advisor(s)

Legal Training

CIO Connect’s purpose is to work with clients to share information and practical solutions. As many organisations are undergoing Digital Transformations, the landscape for them is generating a different set of risks. To protect you, it is important that you are well informed on the legal ramifications in your country by people who have the legal IT experience matched with the ‘in country’ legal knowledge.

Pinsent Masons MPillay have a defined series of relevant courses for our clients.

They are willing to have an initial conversation, free of charge to understand your needs and recommend a course that is appropriate. Please contact Emma Burrows in the first instance, to put you in touch with the correct lawyer in the Practice.

Ongoing Contract Management

Recognising the key clauses in your contract

Regulatory Change

Implications for technology users

Vendor Management

Managing legal risks and practical solutions

Data Protection

GDPR and the PDPC, a commercial discussion on the regulators real concerns

Legal Project Management

Case study based scenarios examining challenges and key considerations

Singapore

120 Robinson Road #15-01

Singapore 068913

Tel: +65 9459 4770

Email: singapore@cio-connect.com

Australia

Tel: +65 9459 4770

Email: singapore@cio-connect.com

Hong Kong

27B, 27/F,

Wing Lok Street Trade Centre

235 Wing Lok Street

Sheung Wan, Hong Kong

Tel: +852 9101 0577

United Kingdom

71-75 Shelton Street

Covent Garden

London

WC2H 9JQ

Tel: +44 (0)7526 821329