Cynthia Bostock - CEO amberjack

At Amberjack we’re passionate about our clients, the service we deliver. Our values anchor every decision that we take. Kev was recommended to us not only for his technical skills and relevant experience but equally importantly for his cultural fit. It is difficult to overstate how quickly Kev has assimilated into the business. He brings tremendous drive and determination to understanding all aspects of the business dynamics and that has enabled him quickly to prioritise the areas of greatest risk and opportunity and formulate technical strategy aligned to our needs. We as a board have confidence that technology issues are owned through to resolution but also benefit from his wider commercial experience in contributing to commercial growth strategy. Consequently, he has already gained the respect and trust of not only the technical team, and his direct senior leadership colleagues but throughout the business. He is everything and more that we hoped for when making this appointment and I cannot recommend him highly enough.

Kev has been a trusted member of the SOS executive team in his role as CIO for over 5 years. He has had valuable contribution to the managing of the business, both at a strategic level as well as the functional responsibility of the IT function. In that time he has delivered on a business aligned IT strategy that has included the development of a technology based solution that has now become a product line within the customer offerings. In the last few years he has also been in charge of the company’s AX ERP implementation in the role of executive sponsor. Kev is a highly professional and knowledgeable individual.

Kev is a professional C suite leader with a versatile set of skills which would be an asset to any forward thinking company. As an interim CTO Kev was able to land in our business, assess needs and rapidly develop a strategic approach to our technology solutions. He was able to provide structure and governance to the five strands of work and led us through the scoping and PID's for the work. He translated technically complicated projects into simple language which could be easily understood and managed. I would recommend Kev without hesitation.

We engaged Kev to co-ordinate a migration to a new IT system and support provider. Kev took the time to really understand who we are and the requirements of our business and quickly made himself part of the team. As a firm with a small management team, Kev was able to do all the 'heavy lifting' and engaged with us when appropriate when key strategic decisions needed to be made. Everything was completed on time and with full visibility of costs as they were incurred.  Kev is someone who takes great pride in surpassing expectations and would regularly go above and beyond the terms of his retainer to make sure our needs were met. I'd have no hesitation in recommending Kev to other organisations.

I had the pleasure of working with Kev for over 5 years as he developed an IT strategy for the global growth of the organisation. Kev was an integral part of the management team and was actively involved in the development of the business. He takes a holistic view of the business and the IT strategy reflects this approach. Kev was well respected by his peers and reports and a pleasure to work with.

I have worked with Kev on a number of time critical customer facing projects. Each one came in on time and on budget and - most importantly - delivered the required results and functionality. Kev's drive to understand requirments upfront was key to these successes.

I have had the pleasure of working with Kev for about 15 years- he is a deeply conscientious, hard working and loyal person who has been responsible for leading IS change throughout his time in DLR.