Independent Chairman of Reuters RPF and SPS pension schemes. Chairman Arachnys Information Services and SmithBayes, both high tech start-ups. Provides consulting, advice and mentoring to executive management.

Reuters 1986-2004 Greg was Chief Information Officer 2002-2004. His remit covered IT Services, Business Applications, Business Process, Sourcing, and Shared Services. The CIO’s mission was to “move Reuters globally to a set of optimal business processes and systems in order to drive excellent customer services as well as significant cost savings”. Greg sat on Reuters Global Operating Committee.

During 2002 Greg led Global Services comprising Reuters Solutions Business and Reuters 1st and 2nd line customer support services, and field service. He also led Reuters Great Service programme. The Solutions business had new revenues of £200m, was growing rapidly, and included Reuters Consulting.

During 2001 Greg led Reuters global Transactions business. It had revenues of £400m and a contribution of £200m, being 35% of Reuters operating profits. Products include Dealing 3000 Direct and Matching (aka D2/1, D2/2), and Reuters Intertrade Direct.

From 1998-2000 Greg led the sales and operations of Reuters Trading Systems Division on a global basis based in Switzerland. The Division had annual revenues of over £700m and a contribution of £350m. Products included Reuters Money & FX Trading Services, Securities Transactions Services, Financial Enterprise Systems Software, including Triarch and TIBCO TIB products, and Kondor+ Risk Management applications. Greg also ran Technical Operations. Total staff of 2,700.

From 1996-1998 Greg was Managing Director of Reuters Corporate Technology Group. He was Reuters senior IT executive and sat on Reuters Executive Committee. He determined global corporate technical policy and strategy and directly managed 1,000 R&D staff with a budget of about £110m. Previous positions at Reuters include International Marketing Director, Information Management Systems (IMS), and International Technical Manager, IMS, based in Chicago, USA.