IT Pro Leaderboard launches

IT Pro is proud to announce that our panel of experts (aka the Leaderboard) is back.

This group of decision makers and influences from the IT industry are charged with shaping IT Pro's editorial direction and helping to provide advice, guidance and insight for readers. In addition to group features, Q&As and opinion pieces, many of them will also contribute to the site as guest editors.

Please see below for details of current members.

• Harshad Ashtekar - Managing and IT director, Calm Ray
• Vlad Botic - chief enterprise architect, Norton Rose Fulbright
• Simon Bulleyment - CIO, haysmacintyre
• Paul Clarke - head of technololgy, Ocado
• Patricio Colombo -Head of IT and Systems atJamie Oliver
• Nico Devocelle - group director of IT services, Lavendon Group
• Mark Evans - head of IT, RLB
• Paul Feldman - CIO, Thomson Reuters (formerly CIO at Cancer Research UK)
• Josko Grlevic - IS director, The trainline.com
• Steve Harvey - director of middleware, Reed Elsevier
• Nathan Hayes - IT director, Osborne Clarke
• Simon Hogg - IT portfolio manager, Oxford Brookes
• John Jackson - assistant ICT director, London Borough of Camden
• Mike Jones - head of apps and corporate systems, Goldsmiths
• Danny King-Smith - head of IT, Dennis Publishing
• Gerry Pennell - CIO, Manchester University (formerlyCIO for the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (Locog) 2012 and director of technology for the Commonwealth Games, Manchester 2002)
• Brendon Petsch - IT director, Gritit
• Simon Placks - head of IT forensics, Ernst & Young
• Liam Quinn - IT director, Richmond Events
• Peter Ransom - CIO, Oxfam
• John Robinson - IT director, global infrastructure, Tata Global Beverages
• Alan Shields - architect team manager, Cambridgeshire County Council
• Stuart Silberg - CTO, hotels.com
• Stefan Simons - director, BlueQuant
• Dave Smith - ICT advisor, London Borough of Havering School Improvement Services
• Lear Specketer - associated/systems analyst, BayernLB
• Jim Tanner - project manager, Commerzbank
• Philip Van Enis - group IT director, Bidwells
• Steven Watt - CIO, St Andrew's University
• Phil Young - head of online, TfL

If you have any questions for the panel, any queries about the initiative or would like to join, please contact group editor Maggie Holland here. Please note, at this stage in time, the panel is not open to vendors.