Joanna is an accomplished international CIO. Having started her career in Pharmaceuticals, in HR then Sales & Marketing, she moved into IT in the mid 80’s and subsequently led large global programs alongside delivering IT services in Europe and Asia. In more recent years she moved into Healthcare and was CIO at the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust where she successfully delivered a large transformation program including the complete overall and replacement of their IT infrastructure and the introduction of a number of new clinical applications. She is a strong advocate for and was an early adopter of cloud technologies. In 2018 she joined Sidra, Qatar, as CIO and delivered a major restructure of their IT organisation and the upgrade of their electronic patient record solution. Since her return to the UK she has been providing consulting and advisory services to life sciences and healthcare organisations and was interim CIO at Great Ormond Street Hospital and interim Group Chief Informatics Officer at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, where she played a key leadership role in their Epic EPR programme and led the development of their new Digital and Data strategies. She concluded as interim CTIO at StepChange, the UK’s leading debt management charity in May and is currently interim CIO at University Hospitals Sussex. In addition she is Lead Digital Advisor at Lexica and a member of the Ideal Health Advisory Board