CMA

Carolyn Kimber

Chairman

Carolyn has worked in our industry throughout her career, in corporate, SME and independent consultancy roles.

She continues to be excited by the ever changing technologies and roles of our profession. Carolyn is equally passionate about CMA and the role it has to play for our members, suppliers, Government and the regulator.

She has previously served for six years on the CMA board as PR director, name change project director, treasurer, vice-chairman and chairman. After a year’s break she found time to offer her services once more to this very worthy and very necessary independent body. Carolyn was appointed Chairman for a second time in January 2007 and oversaw the merger with The British Computer Society (now BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT).

John Hegarty

Vice Chairman

John was a Vice President of Citibank for 10 years, where he held a variety of international IT roles and then joined Glaxo Wellcome in 1999 as head of global network and Internet services. He moved to Betfair in 2007 and to his current position at Transport for London in early 2008.

John is a chartered electrical engineer (MIEE) with a BSc in electrical engineering and has an MBA in finance and international business.

Robert Bratby

Strategic Board Member

Rob has worked in telecoms for over 12 years, with Oftel and for an operator. He is passionate about ensuring the UK has world-class telecoms and has helped a number of large organisations with procuring telecoms and IT services. He is a committed CMA member.

Recommended as leading telecoms lawyer, by Chambers, Legal 500, Who's who of Regulatory Communications Lawyers and plc Which lawyer.

Rob advises on all aspects of corporate, commercial and regulatory telecoms, media and technology law. Rob's corporate advice includes advising on mergers, acquisitions, disposals and joint ventures. Rob's regulatory advice includes advising on policy development, compliance, complaints and disputes before OFCOM and the European Commission as well as the UK Information Commissioner (data protection and privacy) and PhonepayPlus.

Rosemary Gardner

Strategic Board Member

Rosemary has been an active member of CMA since December 1997. She works for Atkins, a large engineering company employing around 15,000 people, mainly in the UK but increasingly on an international level. Her career of more than 30 years has taken her through most areas of ICT, from applications development through to running centralised voice and data communications. Now working on architecture and planning a forward programme of ICT.

Rosmary sees the integration of communication mediums as an exciting prospect for the industry and believes her broad experience of IS, especially enterprise environments, puts her in a good position to give a lot back to CMA and to help it flourish.

Steve Jarvis

Strategic Board Member

Steve is the Business Development Director at CS Technology, a global leader in providing independent programme and project management services and IT consultancy on major construction, datacentre and relocation projects. He has had several years of association with the CMA and contributed to both Briefing Days and CMA Strategy Development.

Steve's background, contacts and understanding of the challenges facing organisations today and how IT and Communications can support them enables him to make a positive contribution on the CMA Strategic Board and assist the CMA with its further development over the coming years

John Taylor

Strategic Board Member

John has been a telecommunications consultant since 1974 and first joined CMA in the 1980s. John is the Leader of the CMA consultancy Forum in an association in which consultants represent a significant portion of the total membership. He is now also the board member with responsibility for consultancy matters.  John introduced the CMA Registered Consultants list in and continues to be responsible for ensuring that these consultants meet the required criteria.

John takes an interest in the individual member and leads the CMA team in reviewing professional development programme

Nick White

Strategic Board Member

Nick has spent 40 years working in IT, mainly in telecommunications. He worked for Reuters for nine years and helped to establish their global network. He was also responsible for IT and telecommunications at other blue-chip companies, including HSBC and Unilever.

Nick has been a Vice President of INTUG since 1994, and currently serves as Executive Vice President. Nick joined CMA in the early 1980s and was chairman from 1990-1993, retiring from the board in 1994. Having rejoined the board, Nick chairs the Steering Committee which reports to the board on operational matters. Nick also brings to the strategic board a deep knowledge of regulatory affairs and global telecoms operations.

Peter Walker

Strategic Board Member

Peter Walker has had over 38 years experience in the telecommunications industry and is widely recognised as a key expert in regulation. He spent 22 years at British Telecom in a range of senior management posts involved in network engineering during the key period when the networks were transitioning from analogue to digital technology. He then moved to become the Director of Technology at Oftel (1993-2003). This has given him unique experience within the regulatory environment during the period when much of today's regulatory system was developed, as well as insight into the way that regulators think.

As part of Oftel's senior team, he worked on all the key policy developments, gaining valuable experience of the economic, legal and accounting aspects of regulation in addition to his core engineering skills. He is now an independent consultant, specialising in telecommunications technology, regulation and public policy. His expertise covers not only the regulatory framework as a whole, but also detailed knowledge of specialist issues such as interconnection, numbering (including portability), carrier pre-selection, broadband access (including Local Loop Unbundling), network resilience, and how regulation impacts new technologies such as Next Generation Networks and Voice over IP

Michael Rowbory

Strategic Board Member

Michael has over 40 years experience in Systems Integration and Outsourcing in the International Telecoms and IT markets.  After a 20 year career in the British Army, where latterly he helped initiate major military equipment and technology programmes, he held senior international business roles with EDS, Unisys, Logica and Avaya where he was responsible for a number of large telecoms related managed services and outsourcing programmes. Projects ranged in scope from managing the Inland Revenue Telecoms infrastructure to delivering the IT infrastructure for start up mobile phone companies internationally. Technical qualifications include a BSc in Electrical Engineering, a post graduate Telecommunications Engineering Management qualification, and Membership of the IET and the CMA.

Michael has enjoyed what the CMA has had to offer over his past 15 years or so as a member and looks forward to helping to grow the strategic positioning of the CMA in any way he can.  He believes the CMA has an important role to play in representing the business user (small, medium, large enterprises, emerging e-commerce and internet virtual companies) and the communications management professionals to provide them with best practice, and lobby on their behalf. Where he would most like to contribute is in helping develop a CMA strategy and delivering best practise advice for managing convergent ICT services.

Mike Daly

Strategic Board Member

Mike Daly - Group Head of Mobility & Global IPT Domain Mngr

Following qualification (Applied Physics), Mike Joined BICC and spent 9 years in Optical / Copper system design and implementation. Moving to HSBC in 1989, Mike has developed & managed Group Cable Strategy, LAN / WAN Design, Voice / Contact Centre Solutions both in the UK and with Regional Bank entities.

Following successful Management of Major Project initiatives for Infrastructure, LAN, Wan, Voice & Building migration and Unified Communications technologies, Mike has now moved to a Group Wide position managing the development of the Group Mobility Strategy and the Global IPTelephony transformation programme ensuring Telephony Hardware & Desktop, Mobility and Services can delivered across all Group Regions.  

Mike has been active in both Optical & Copper Standards and following a number of years as part of the UK Experts Panel on Premised cabling, Mike has accepted an additional role as CMA Forum leader for Infrastructure management liaising with TIA-B

Simon Barton

Strategic Board Member

Biography to follow soon