John Parkinson

John Parkinson has extensive international experience providing business, technology and communication strategy services to select global clients and private equity investment advisors to identify growth opportunities in emerging areas of technology and media. John has written or edited five books on information systems development and has contributed over 40 papers to conferences and journals. He writes a monthly column – “Strong Signals” – for CIO Insight and is a member of their editorial advisory board. He is a frequent speaker at international meetings on innovation, technology strategy, emerging technologies and related topics. John’s experience includes a senior executive role at Axis Capital, Chief Technology Officer for TransUnion and CapGemini, and a senior partner with Ernst and Young.

John has a BS in Mathematics (with minors in economics and behavioral psychology) and an MS in Information Sciences, both from University of Exeter, UK. An example of his work is included in the Computerworld-Smithsonian collection.