Introducing the IT Pro Leader Board
Making strategic technology decisions that impact your business is never easy. The IT Pro leader board is here to offer advice and guidance as well as sharing the benefit of their collective experience.

Bill Strain is chief technology officer for the iomart group,
Recently, he oversaw the launch of a new cloud division, Westcoastcloud, and a new customer control panel for iomart Hosting's customers in addition to developing the company's esafety software Netintelligence for the iPad and iPhone.
Bill was awarded the Leader of the Year accolade at IT Pro's inaugural awards in 2011.
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Maggie has been a journalist since 1999, starting her career as an editorial assistant on then-weekly magazine Computing, before working her way up to senior reporter level. In 2006, just weeks before ITPro was launched, Maggie joined Dennis Publishing as a reporter. Having worked her way up to editor of ITPro, she was appointed group editor of CloudPro and ITPro in April 2012. She became the editorial director and took responsibility for ChannelPro, in 2016.
Her areas of particular interest, aside from cloud, include management and C-level issues, the business value of technology, green and environmental issues and careers to name but a few.
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