
Ian Golding has been Chief Information Officer, Chief Technical Officer
and Data Privacy Officer leading global commercial technology
programmes for over 20 years and has a passion for fostering
collaboration and innovation to exploit the benefits of technology and
data in permanent, interim, fractional and private consulting roles.
He is
currently Interim CIO at SThree Plc, the world’s leading STEM skills
provider. Formerly Ian was Interim CIO at the
Natural History
Museum, developing the Technology Strategy and Vision to support the
its dual role as a centre of excellence in leading scientific research and
as a world leading museum. In 2017 As the RNLI’s first CIO (Interim) he
created the Institution’s first digital, information and technology
strategy including new capability for fundraising, predictive analytics
and data
-
based insights that will help the RNLl to break the chain of
events that can tragically lead to drowning. Ian has also been Interim IT
Director at Southern Housing Group and prior to Interim roles was
Group CIO, Data Privacy Officer and Senior Partner for The ERM Group
through its largest growth phase over 4 private equity cycles, to 5,200
staff across 140 offices worldwide. Ian is a Fellow of The Institute of
Directors, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the IET and
a Chartered Professional Fellow of The BCS. He is also an investor and
mentors digital startups. By devoting time to assisting emerging
businesses and small investments to advance, Ian’s aim is to help grow
the
digital ecosystem.