BIOGRAPHY

GREG MEEKINGS

Senior Executive pursuing a plural non-executive and leisure lifestyle.
Career Summary:	Independent Chairman of Reuters RPF and SPS pension schemes. Chairman SmithBayes, suppliers of Corporate Strategy tools and services. Provides consulting, advice and mentoring to executive management. Chairman Woldingham Parish Council. Seeking one or two more non executive roles. Reuters 1986-2004 Greg was Chief Information Officer 2002-2004. His remit covered IT Services, Business Applications, Business Process, Sourcing, and Shared Services. The CIO’s mission was to “move Reuters globally to a set of optimal business processes and systems in order to drive excellent customer services as well as significant cost savings”. Greg sat on Reuters Global Operating Committee. During 2002 Greg led Global Services comprising Reuters Solutions Business and Reuters 1st and 2nd line customer support services, and field service. He also led Reuters Great Service programme. The Solutions business had new revenues of £200m, was growing rapidly, and included Reuters Consulting. During 2001 Greg led Reuters global Transactions business. It had revenues of £400m and a contribution of £200m, being 35% of Reuters operating profits. Products include Dealing 3000 Direct and Matching (aka D2/1, D2/2), and Reuters Intertrade Direct. From 1998-2000 Greg led the sales and operations of Reuters Trading Systems Division on a global basis based in Switzerland. The Division had annual revenues of over £700m and a contribution of £350m. Products included Reuters Money & FX Trading Services, Securities Transactions Services, Financial Enterprise Systems Software, including Triarch and TIBCO TIB products, and Kondor+ Risk Management applications. Greg also ran Technical Operations. Total staff of 2,700. From 1996-1998 Greg was Managing Director of Reuters Corporate Technology Group. He was Reuters senior IT executive and sat on Reuters Executive Committee. He determined global corporate technical policy and strategy and directly managed 1,000 R&D staff with a budget of about £110m. Previous positions at Reuters include International Marketing Director, Information Management Systems (IMS), and International Technical Manager, IMS, based in Chicago, USA. Director of several Reuters subsidiaries. Prior to Reuters Greg spent 10 years at Logica PLC, mostly managing their Industrial Automation Division. He has established several small businesses in the PC sector and was Services Director at First Computer.
Achievements:	· As Reuters CIO delivered major business benefit through a combination of tight business aligned governance, clear application strategy (use out-of-the-box), aggressive standardisation, and niche outsourcing and offshoring. · Set up Reuters Great Service Programme – shifted the companies priorities and behaviour to service, delivered improving levels of service · Delivered on target Trading Systems & Transactions revenues and contribution 1999-2002, and adopted several radical revenue protecting strategies. · Led the formation of Atriax the FX e-marketplace company set up in partnership with Chase Manhattan, Citibank and Deutsche Bank. · Established Reuters Software Process Improvement initiative achieving the Software Engineering Institute’s CMM Level 3 by. · Involved in the initial acquisition and subsequent management of several of Reuters acquisitions, including Tibco Software Inc. · Achieved 90% market share with Triarch™ the de-facto standard trading room systems product for the financial markets, and cumulative revenues of £2bn. · Founder member of Braid Systems, a UK start-up company, which achieved 60% market share in its sector and was eventually sold for $100m. · Engineered Logica’s world leading Master Control™ telemetry and plant automation software product.
Personal:	1^st Class Computer Science degree; married; daughter (dob’81), son (dob’83); enjoys bridge, sailing, wind-surfing, squash, golf, and skiing.