Gary Buck

Gary Buck is a highly experienced global CIO.

His first CIO role was 20 years ago when he was appointed to be the inaugural CIO appointee to the IT arm of BHP. This was the early days of outsourcing with BHP Information Technology having around 2000 employees delivering services to both its parent company and non-related entities.

Subsequent to that Gary has had several CIO appointments in the mining industry which saw him with responsibilities in locations such as Mozambique, South Africa, Suriname, Canada, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea, England and Australia. He was also the CIO of a very large global membership organisation.

Between these roles he has also gained invaluable experience negotiating multi-million dollar global deals against industry heavyweights like Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, IBM, HP, Lenovo, Cisco, Telstra and France Telecom / Equant.

Toss in to the mix some recent experience having total responsibility for IT security for a global top 10 organisation and then assisting an Indian IT major to build a mining presence and you can see, he has a broad and fascinating background.

Gary now lives in Melbourne Australia with his wife Sandy, as do his three adult sons. His siblings and parents are widely spread in Perth, Singapore and Hong Kong.

His first book "CIO 100: The first 100 days as CIO" has sold strongly on Amazon since it's release in 2014.