Leadership
The Big Interview: SWIFT’s CIO Tom Zschach
SWIFT is building a new platform that will let it run cutting edge analytics on over 10 billion transactions a year using a containerised on-premises infrastructure, federated learning models and unique software-defined memory to help it utilise its existing hardware stack, says Chief Innovation Officer Tom Zschach. The platform will...
The Big Interview: IFCO Systems CIO Kare Heikkila
You will likely have relied on IFCO Systems, even if you haven’t heard of them. The Munich-headquartered company provides reusable packaging for fruit, vegetables, meat, baked goods and beyond for supermarkets like Waitrose and Walmart. Its crates are used in over 2 billion shipments per year. (They typically last...
US State Department names DoD veteran Dr Kelly Fletcher as CIO
The US Department of State has appointed Dr Kelly Fletcher as its new Chief Information Officer (CIO). She will lead a team of 2,700 IT professionals and oversee $2.5 billion of digital transformation programmes. Among those programmes is a recently signed $1.58 billion contract with Verizon to...