Panel: Portfolio delivery: from here to there.
Daniel Terhorst-North
Daniel Terhorst-North uses his deep technical and organisational knowledge to help CIOs, business and software teams to deliver quickly and successfully. He puts people first and finds simple, pragmatic solutions to business and technical problems, often using lean and agile techniques. With over thirty years of experience in IT, Daniel is a frequent speaker at technology and business conferences worldwide.
Chris Matts
Chris Matts has over 10 years of experience in investment banking including strategy work as a practitioner rather than as a consultant. His specialist areas are real options, IT risk management, business value and agile analysis. He has been working in exotic credit derivatives for the past few years.
Tony Grout
Tony's passion has been in building software that changes the world for the better at a scale that makes a massive difference. This has been his passion and his challenge for the past 30 years. Tony started and sold two successful software development business before the age of 35.Both working in complex environments, as Lead developer and Head of Sales in the former and Chief Technology Officer in the latter. Tony is currently Head of Agile at Skype. He is bringing sustainable enterprise agility to a fast paced, fast growing organisation with over 1,500 engineers. He still loves to code.Before Skype Tony was the co-chair of the Agile Leadership Council in IBM. His coaching across software labs of 25,000 engineers was instrumental in the endurance of agile.
Marina Oliveira
Marina has been working on increasing organisation’s value for almost 20 years. She started in mergers and acquisitions in Brazil advising companies on business worth and improving valuation drivers. She then moved to London to read her MBA at London Business School. Marina has since worked in Strategy, Product Management, and Process Improvement within Telecoms.
Ram Rao
Ram has been working in the Data, Insights & Strategy teams of the top tech Product Companies for the past 10 years. He started off as Quality Analyst after his engineering degree, before moving to the world of Metrics & KPIs. Following his MBA in Sales & Marketing, he then worked in Product Strategy, Marketing and Pricing Analytics.