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Rank Company name CIOs name Employees Prev Yr Rank
Rank Company name CIOs name Employees Prev Yr Rank
1 Ministry of Defence John Taylor, director of group information 300000 1 (=)
2 Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs Deepak Singh, CIO 90000 2 (=)
3 Royal Bank of Scotland Group David Lister, chief architect 135800 3 (=)
4 BT Al-Noor Ramji, BT Design chief executive 106000 4 (=)
5 Department for Work & Pensions Joe Harley, IT director general and CIO 124000 5 (=)
6 Unilever Neil Cameron, global CIO 186000 9 (↑)
7 DHL Nigel Underwood, CIO 50000 12 (↑)
8 Royal Mail Group Robin Dargue, Group CIO and Technology Director 200000 6 (↓)
9 Lloyds TSB Group Darryl West, director of group IT 63000 7 (↓)
10 HBOS Heather Jackson, director of group services 72000 8 (↓)
11 BP Dana Deasy, Group Vice President IT&S 17000 10 (↓)
12 Tesco Philip Clarke, Asia, Europe and IT director 266178 11 (↓)
13 GlaxoSmithKline Bill Louv, CIO 58300 13 (=)
14 BAE Systems Chris Coupland, director of the Corporate IT Office 35000 18 (↑)
15 ASDA Howard Reed - IT Director 160000 40 (↑)
16 HSBC Rumi Contractor, CIO Europe 30000 14 (↓)
17 Royal Dutch/Shell Swee Chen Goh, VP Global IT Services 108000 N/A
18 Barclays Don Trotta, CIO 59000 15 (↓)
19 Deloitte & Touche LLP Mary Hensher UK director of Technology 165000 60 (↑)
20 Centrica None at present 85000 16 (↓)
21 Rentokil Initial Bryan Kinsella, CIO 76000 26 (↑)
22 J Sainsbury Angela Morrison, director of European strategy 145000 19 (↓)
23 The Metropolitan Police Ailsa Beaton, director of information 65332 20 (↓)
24 Co-operative Group Gerry Pennell, CIO 85000 17 (↓)
25 AstraZeneca UK Richard Williams, Global CIO 67900 81 (↑)
26 BOC Ronald Gieger, Head of Group Information Services 50045 N/A
27 Home Office Vincent Geake, CIO 70000 21 (↓)
28 John Lewis Partnership Phil Hullah 69000 22 (↓)
29 Rolls Royce Jonathan Mitchell, CIO and director of BPI 38500 23 (↓)
30 Wm Morrison Supermarkets Gary Barr, IT Director 114000 N/A
31 Reuters None at present 17000 24 (↓)
32 WPP David Nicoll, CIO 110000 70 (↑)
33 BA Paul Coby, CIO 48000 27 (↓)
34 KPMG LLP Bryan Clark, Partner and CIO, KPMG Europe LLP 23000 54 (↑)
35 BBC Keith Little, CIO 27000 25 (↓)
36 Department of Constitutional Affairs Yvonne Gallagher, eDelivery Group CIO 28000 28 (↓)
37 Balfour Beatty Darryn Warner, Chief Information Officer 35000 41 (↑)
38 Alliance Boots None at present 85000 30 (↓)
39 Birmingham City Council Steve Glaze 55000 58 (↑)
40 Kingfisher Jean Jacques Van Oosten, CIO 71000 55 (↑)
41 Network Rail Catherine Doran, information management director 35000 31 (↓)
42 Carillion Steve Connor, 50000 N/A
43 ICI Shakeel Mozaffar, Group VP of Procurement and Technology 26000 N/A
44 BUPA John Lister, group IS director 32000 32 (↓)
45 Compass Group Bob Lonsdale, UK IT director 90000 33 (↓)
46 National Grid Kathy Lane, Chief Information Officer 27000 56 (↑)
47 WH Smith Peter Swann, IT director 31067 34 (↓)
48 Aviva Matt Fahy, group IT director 33827 36 (↓)
49 Arriva Ian Gerrard, group IT manager 33000 35 (↓)
50 Whitbread Ben Wishart, Change and Information Director 35000 N/A
51 Fife Council Terry Trundley, CIO 23000 68 (↑)
52 Nationwide Building Society Michael Humphreys 19000 43 (↓)
53 Diageo Brian Franz, CIO 22086 N/A
54 Virgin Media Howard Watson, CTO & CIO 15060 49 (↓)
55 McDonald’s Restaurants Ivan Brooks, head of IT 67000 42 (↓)
56 Kent County Council David Cockburn, director of business solutions and policy 31109 38 (↓)
57 Hampshire County Council Jos Creese, Head of IT 39100 N/A
58 Ford of Europe Bill Fairclough 14200 39 (↓)
59 Orange Peter Marsden, Vice-President IT & Networks 888 63 (↑)
60 Serco Group Darryn Gibson, CIO 30000 45 (↓)
61 JP Morgan Chase Guy Chiarello 14000 44 (↓)
62 Home Retail Group Pete Connor, IS director 51000 46 (↓)
63 Marks & Spencer Group Daryl Stein 75000 53 (↓)
64 PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Dominique Moreau, Head of Global Technical Services 16284 N/A
65 Leeds City Council Dylan Roberts, head of ICT 32000 48 (↓)
66 Manchester City Council Pauline Owens 23600 51 (↓)
67 SPAR UK Roy Ford IT Controller 50000 52 (↓)
68 AMEC Russ Harker, Global Head of IT 22000 95 (↑)
69 Somerfield Mike Bell, business systems director 45000 50 (↓)
70 RWE Npower Michael Semrau, Global CIO 11975 N/A
71 EDF Energy Nigel Stevens, managing director business improvement & technology 13000 66 (↓)
72 Nestlé Lisa Gill, Director of IS 7000 91 (↑)
73 Woolworths Group Tony Godwin, Head of IT director 30000 65 (↓)
74 Glasgow City Council Duncan Mackison 32000 57 (↓)
75 Ladbrokes Chris Lindsay, IT Director 15000 N/A
76 British Sky Broadcasting Didier Lebrat, CTO 14800 86 (↑)
77 DEFRA CIO Chris Chant 13000 79 (↑)
78 T-Mobile Dirk Rohweder, director of IT 6000 71 (↓)
79 O2 Derek McManus, CTO 11000 N/A
80 Vodafone Jeni Mundy, CTO 11000 76 (↓)
81 WS Atkins Lesley Hume, IS director 14000 74 (↓)
82 Foreign & Commonwealth Office Tony Mather, CIO 16000 75 (↓)
83 Land Rover and Jaguar Michael Ali 16000 73 (↓)
84 Surrey County Council Jane Last/David Rees, Acting Heads of IMT 25000 85 (↑)
85 BAA Richard Rundle, IT Director 15300 92 (↑)
86 West Sussex County Council Paul Brocklehurst 26000 67 (↓)
87 Liverpool City Council Colin Hilton, Chief Executive of Liverpool City Council 13000 77 (↓)
88 Group 4 Securicor No overall head - each division has its own IT director 25400 87 (↓)
89 Lancashire County Council Bill Brown, CIO 9000 59 (↓)
90 Essex County Council Ben Darlington, Head of Information Services 13800 62 (↓)
91 British Energy Derek Wilde, CIO 6000 90 (↓)
92 Scottish & Newcastle Jeremy Louden, IT Manager 13562 89 (↓)
93 Royal & SunAlliance Jim Williams, UK Technology Director 9000 80 (↓)
94 Trinity Mirror Tony Pusey, Group IT Director 9000 83 (↓)
95 Standard Life Group Keith Young, IT director 8000 94 (↓)
96 ITV Richard Cross, Group Technology Director 5700 N/A
97 Department for Transport Eamonn McDonough, Head of IT Services 5000 96 (↓)
98 Comet Group Kevin O’Brien, head of IS 10000 93 (↓)
99 Sunderland City Council Steve Leggetter 14000 97 (↓)
100 Arcadia Group Andrew Clarke, Group IT Director 26000 98 (↓)