Jos Creese is the CIO for Hampshire County Council.  In addition to running the IT group of technology and business professionals, Jos supports a variety of business change programmes enabled by IT for the Council.  Hampshire IT also provides services to several hundred other public sector organisations, and demands for shared services are growing.

Jos has over 25 years of IT management experience, and has worked for central government, district and unitary councils.Founder and Chair of the Local Public Service CIO Council and a member of the National Government CIO Council and was President of Socitm in 2010/11.

In 2011 he was voted the most innovative and influential UK CIO in the Silicon CIO50 survey. A regular speaker at national and international conferences, Jos is an advocate for the need for changing approaches to IT leadership to reflect the changing role of IT demanded by private and public sectors alike.