Yelena
CTO/Chief Technical Officer - UK - iCEO #93112

Experience

An Impactful Executive Leader & CIO with 25 years of experience spanning sectors and geographies. Yelena has an outstanding track record for innovative and effective interventions, which have widely contributed to business growth, delivering improved margins and significant returns on investment.

Major Achievements

• Digital Transf. Lead - managed a £70m portfolio: yielding £45m savings, elevating KPI standards, mitigating cyber risks, enhancing reg. compliance; pivotal in migrating 20 data centres to Azure cloud. • Culture & Org Change Lead - elevated IT to a key business partner - eliminating £15m in shadow IT costs, adopting a continuous delivery model and increasing delivery rates by 50% with existing staff. • UK Exports Lead - led EU exit readiness: designing Day 1 Brexit options & future UK Intl Trade Service (reporting to the Secretary of State), achieving cost avoidance equivalent to training 2k new vets. • Senior Delivery Advisor - led SaaS implementations: enabling efficient pharma & medical supply distribution (including COVID vaccines) facilitating 51k-employee collaboration & automating BPR processes. • Technology & Solution Design Lead - designed and delivered a customs intermediary platform for post-Brexit trade: targeting £20m turnover with 250k yearly declarations - success leading to seven new services. • Engagement Manager & Steering Committee Member - led a data infrastructure review for future growth: maximising original £30m investment (via in-depth analysis) achieving £60m in cost avoidance. • Chief Architect - designed new business ops model via advanced middleware: facilitating multi-stakeholder collaboration for target state architecture & IT strategy - prepping IT organisation for rollout

Industry Sector Competencies

Software

Systems Integration

water

Financial Services

Consulting

Professional Objectives

Function: CIO, CTO, CDO, VP of Engineering, Senior Technology Leadership

Sector: Any

Interim Manager: Yes

Permanent Position: Yes

Operational: Yes

Availability: Full time, part time, coaching on demand

Prefered Locations: UK

Additional Professional Interests

Operational coaching on demand

Non executive director assignments

Countries Covered

UK

Operational Competencies

AI strategy (Expert)

Technologies to market (Expert)

Business development (Expert)

New product or service launch (Expert)

Company rescue or turnaround (Expert)