Xen is the CTO for News International, and a specialist in disruptive technologies. He runs the Digital Engineering, Product and Operations teams across the various news titles - The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times. Previously Xen was with Google where he ran Enterprise Solution Engineering for EMEA. His role involved overseeing the solutions engineering for all Google Enterprise applications including Google Search and Google Apps.

Other companies Xen has worked for include Accenture and Microsoft. There his roles included managing large integration projects for global communication companies,  and working as a technical specialist in the SOA and BPM space for Microsoft. His education background is in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, being an alumnus of the University of Cape Town.