The company will be represented by Chief Executive Officer, Jeff Motto, Chief Operating Officer, Clive White, Client Executive Kevin O’Brien and Marketing and Communications Director, Sara Tye at the event, which takes place on the P&O cruise ship, Aurora.

The Leading Resolutions team will be available throughout the event to demonstrate how they can help senior IT executives at major organisations deal with the rapid pace of technological change and the challenges it creates in the modern workplace. They will also be hosting one of the keynote plenary sessions entitled “The CIO is dead….long live the CIO”. The presentation will discuss the changing role of the CIO, the increasing pressures and expectations on the CIO and what will be on his or her agenda in 2015. As industry practitioners, the presentation will bring together their broad experience of change drawn from their own previous IT leadership roles and from their privileged position of working with senior teams across their blue-chip client portfolio.

Leading Resolutions expertise covers the full IT and change lifecycle from setting the agenda of technology enabled business change – defining and aligning business & IT strategy, investment and operations to IT supply chain/supplier optimisation – aligning internal and external IT supply and maximising the contribution made by third parties, contracts and commercial arrangements.

Specific areas of expertise are IT transformation – improving performance from IT investment; IT integration & optimisation – maximising return on IT investment and operations; technology optimisation and consolidation, cost reduction and alignment of people, process and technology and IT audit & advisory – providing an independent health check, strategic and operational reviews and IT risk assessments.

The IT Directors’ Forum Spring Conference 2012 takes place 16 – 19 May aboard the Aurora. For further event information, visit www.itdf.com.

In early 2011, things weren’t looking good for the Under 12s. Their previous sponsor had withdrawn and the team badly needed financial support. So local lad Jeff Motto, CEO of Leading Resolutions, life-long Hatters fan and uncle of Belles player, Charlotte Motto, stepped in to provide the team with a new kit, including tracksuits and bags.

And the investment has paid off. Luton Town Belles Under 12s have won the 2011/12 Chiltern Junior Sevens (CJS) league. Undefeated after 15 games, the team has racked up an unassailable 28 points, scoring 78 goals and conceding just 6 in the process.

Luton Town Ladies was formed in 1997 and in the 15 years since, the youth section has thrived through hard work and dedication, with several players graduating to the first team. At grass roots level there is a feeling that the FA hasn’t promoted girls football, so sponsorship from a dynamic business such as Leading Resolutions sends an inspiring message of confidence in youth football.

The Under 12s and Under 13s play in the CJS League with a usual kick-off time of 10.30am on Saturdays. Home games are played at Lancaster Avenue, Luton.

Leading Resolutions is a business-focused IT consultancy and advisory. Its leadership team are experienced industry IT practitioners who have run large IT blue-chip operations and delivered complex projects involving mergers, organisational transformation, creation and launch of new services and capabilities across multiple industry sectors. The breadth of expertise at Leading Resolutions includes business change, sourcing and offshoring, vendor selection and management, technology selection and refresh and IT consolidation and optimisation. Consultancy services are available on a project basis or through a complete interim management capability.

For more information about The Luton Town Belles, visit their website.

Clive’s role is to enhance Leading Resolutions’ existing capabilities and create new offerings for the business to enable continued and, where appropriate, accelerated growth.

Clive is a senior IT executive and change leader with large scale global operations and change credentials. He brings a wealth of cross-industry experience and a proven track record in delivering high profile, high value projects. He has worked with a number of blue chip organisations over the last 23 years including IBM, AT&T, Accenture, BSkyB and Scottish Widows (Lloyds Banking Group (LBG)). As part of Europe’s largest Financial Services integration bringing together LloydsTSB and HBoS, he also led the integration of the heritage Scottish Widows IT and business operations function within LBG in December 2011.
Clive has managed global operations with budget responsibility in excess of $0.25bn and his career highlights include launching one Europe’s first commercial corporate Internet services, delivering Y2K compliance for one of the largest global network infrastructures and delivering two offshore application maintenance outsource programmes. As Director of Infrastructure & Operations at BSkyB, Clive was also part of the leadership team that launched Sky Broadband to nine million consumers.

In 2007, Clive founded Hyperforma Ltd, a business and personal change consultancy developing change agendas leveraging neural linguistic programming (NLP) and emotional intelligence (EI) capabilities. The holder of an MBA (Exec) and BSc (Hons) in Integrated (IBM) Computer Science, Clive also takes a keen interest in the influence of technology on both business and society and the potential of social media and mobile technologies.

Commenting on the appointment, Jeff Motto, CEO of Leading Resolutions, said “Clive’s practical experience in both industry and consulting across business change, large scale operational and deep IT transformational roles will continue to keep our business relevant and forward looking. His arrival also adds to our significant pool of senior industry practitioners at the disposal of our clients.”

After forming a solid grounding in IT operations, development and programme management during spells with Strand Lighting, San Paolo Bank, Lyons Tetley, Allied Domecq and Virgin Our Price between 1988 and 2000, Kevin was appointed Business Solutions Director at Virgin Retail.

Here, he led commercial projects including a campaign to increase the store offer to include Virgin mobile phones. The success of this new category in the Our Price stores led to the development of the V.Shop concept personally sponsored by Sir Richard Branson. Kevin was an integral part of the executive team that devised and delivered the V.Shop transformation of more than 100 Our Price stores in just six months. Ground breaking innovations such as digital listening posts, plasma screens, touch screen kiosks and extranet saw V.Shop win a Retail Week Best Use of Technology Award.

In 2002, Kevin joined Mothercare Plc as Divisional IT Director, where, as part of the senior turnaround team, he oversaw the critical technological elements of a program to increase the company’s product range and incremental sales. His key achievements included devising and delivering the IS strategy, merging two IT divisions into a coherent department and completing due diligence across all systems for the purchase of Early Learning Centre. Kevin also led the integration of an EPOS solution with existing web systems – a market sector first – enabling Mothercare to become a true multi-channel retailer. The outstanding success of the turnaround program led to Mothercare claiming a Retailer System Retailer of the Year award.

Most recently, Kevin was Head of IS at Comet Group, part of Kesa Electricals Plc, where, after joining in 2007, his role was to redefine the group’s IS strategy. Transforming the IT team, Kevin oversaw the strategic move to a new platform, SOA enablement and the first UK implementation of Websphere 7. This opened several new sales channels including a mobile transactional site, Andriod and Apple mobile apps and Comet’s eBay platform, contributing to a substantial growth in sales. He also challenged business thinking and delivered solutions which enabled Comet to become the number one, measured by market share, in the white goods sector. Kevin also chaired the operating board to drive operational efficiencies and assess business opportunities.

Kevin has delivered award winning solutions, project management, successful offshoring and industry recognised best in class teams throughout his career. He joins Leading Resolutions as part of the senior team to grow the business and offer his substantial experience to existing and potential clients.

The holder of an OND in Business Studies and an IDPM (Institute of Data Processing Management) Professional IS qualification, Kevin is also a member of the Fujitsu CIO Advisory Board.

Said Jeff Motto, CEO of Leading Resolutions, “With his solid commercial acumen and willingness to challenge existing cost bases, Kevin has racked up a string of major achievements in some extremely competitive retail environments. We are delighted that his skills and expertise will now be available to clients of Leading Resolutions.”

Leading Resolutions featured prominently at this year’s Wiltshire Business of the Year Awards. The Malmesbury-based IT consultancy was named winner in the Innovation and Growth category and was shortlisted for the overall Outstanding Excellence (Wiltshire Business of the Year) accolade.

The Awards, hosted by Newsquest, publisher of Wiltshire Business and the Swindon Advertiser, recognise exceptional business achievement across a range of disciplines. Winning criteria for the Innovation and Growth Award, sponsored by Natwest, includes substantial growth over a minimum of three years and evidence of consistent out-performance against targets and budgets. The Outstanding Excellence award, sponsored by Thring Townsend Lee and Pembertons, goes to the organisation which the judges believe has demonstrated the greatest success and achievement across all aspects of its business.

The awards were presented at a prestigious black tie gala dinner at the Four Pillars Hotel, South Cerney on Thursday 12 May. Speaking at the event, Jeff Motto, Co-Founder and CEO at Leading Resolutions said “We’re absolutely delighted that all the planning and hard work that we’ve put into the growth and development of Leading Resolutions in recent years has been recognised here tonight. Winning this award, along with being shortlisted for the overall prize, is a great moment in the Leading Resolutions story.”

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