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John Parkinson
CTO, Transunion
John Parkinson joins the IOCOM Advisory Board as an advisor on key technical developments. Further, Parkinson offers his expertise in overall corporate development.
Mr. Parkinson is a former Vice President and the Chief Technologist for Cap Gemini Ernst & Young LLC, Americas Region. As a member of the Strategy & Technology leadership team, Mr. Parkinson headed the Americas ’ Office of the CTO, setting direction for CGEY’s portfolio of Technology Consulting offers, promoting technology innovation, working with early adopter clients and defining career and competency models for CGE&Y’s technology consultants.
Previously Mr. Parkinson was a partner in the Strategy & Corporate Development Group at Ernst & Young LLP and the director for Innovation and Strategy for E&Y in the Americas Region. He was responsible for developing and delivering a vision of the future of professional services and a strategy for implementing that vision.
In addition Mr. Parkinson oversaw a portfolio of innovation projects and processes designed to redefine how a professional services firm operates. Prior to this role, he was chief technologist for E&Y’s Global eCommerce group and head of the eC Global Solutions team. Mr. Parkinson joined E&Y in the UK in 1985 and moved to the USA in 1991. He has degrees in mathematics and in information sciences from Exeter University , UK . He has been involved with the information technology (IT) business since 1969 and has worked in virtually all roles within IT from programmer to general manager of a software house. Mr. Parkinson has managed or directed business strategy, IS strategy, technology architecture, requirements analysis and large-scale systems development projects in the UK , USA , Europe and the Middle East and has consulted for some of the world’s leading technology companies.
Mr. Parkinson has written or edited four books on information systems development and has contributed over forty papers to conferences and journals. He is a frequent speaker at international meetings on innovation, eCommerce, knowledge management, emerging technologies and related topics. He has acted as the U.S. Consulting Unit’s CIO and led the programs that developed the Ernie online consulting service and innovative offerings in knowledge management and e-commerce.