Jos Creese, Head of IT at Hampshire County Council takes on Socitm Presidency

Socitm involvements prior to becoming President include chairing Socitm Insight, and immediately before becoming President he was one of the Society's three vice Presidents. He will hold office for one year with immediate effect.

In his 'day job' at Hampshire CC, Jos runs the IT group of technology and business professionals, and supports a variety of business change programmes enabled by IT for the Council. Hampshire CC also provides IT services to several hundred other public sector organisations.

At a national level, Jos is a member of the CIO Council, and the Local Data Panel, and is chairs the Local Public Service CIO Council. He has over 20 years' experience in IT management, and joined Hampshire CC in 2002, following an earlier career in IT at district, unitary and county level, having started out in IT in the Department of Health.

A regular speaker at conferences, Jos is well known as an advocate for changing approaches to IT leadership to reflect the changing role of IT demanded by private and public sectors alike.

Members can read about Jos's thoughts on the year ahead in his Incoming President's Statement in the Socitm Annual Report 2009, which can be downloaded from the AGM page on this website.