Jos Creese is the Head of IT for Hampshire County Council.  In addition to running the IT group of technology and business professionals, Jos supports a variety of ‘business change through IT’ programmes for the County Council.  The Council also provides IT services to several hundred other public sector organisations on a business basis.

Jos has over 20 years of IT management experience, and has worked for central government, district and unitary councils.  He is involved in a number of national groups on IT, working with the LGA, Cabinet Office, and SOCITM.  He is Chair of the SOCITM Insight business stream, a member of the Government CIO Council and chairs the Hampshire and Isle of Wight ePartnership. 

Jos’ IT career has been based on the principle that successful IT delivery must follow business disciplines with strong customer focused  full ‘profit and loss’, whilst maintaining corporate service ethos. Linking IT closely to the business it support in this way helps to maximise the value IT contributes as well as controlling the costs it incurs.

A regular speaker at conferences, Jos is an advocate for the need for changing approaches to IT leadership to reflect the changing role of IT demanded by the private and public sectors alike.