Dr Stephen Kneebone
Business & Technology Transformation Leader
Olympus Corporation•Shinjuku, Tokyo
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Dynamic business and technology transformation leader with over 25 years experience across Automotive, Aerospace, Software Services and MedTech. Extensive expertise within CIO and business change roles, driving digital transformation and innovation to disrupt established thinking and deliver business growth. Combining an appreciation of advanced technology with acute business acumen, experience encompasses driving initiatives as a start-up founder of a consulting and software business to enabling business restructuring and digital transformation in large global corporations. • A commercially minded strategic leader, passionate about inspiring and developing people, driving continuous operational improvement, unlocking and delivering new opportunities. • Adept at understanding business challenges and delivering relevant digital strategies, with a true understanding of how technology can be leveraged and deliver for a business, its customers and employees. • With a collaborative mind-set accomplished at engaging and stimulating change at all levels of an organisation. Voted number one transformational CIO in the UK CIO 100 in 2014 for leading digital transformation in one of the most innovative organisations in the automotive industry.
Career Timeline
- Olympus CorporationCurrentApr 2019–Present· 7 yrs 5 mos
- Chief Information Officer, GlobalCurrentApr 2019–Present
- 2006–Mar 2019· 13 yrs 2 mos
- Head Strategic ProgrammesJun 2018–Mar 2019
- Vice President External & Government AffairsMar 2012–Mar 2015
- Vice President CIO / CISO EMEAFeb 2012–May 2018
- Vice President, Business TransformationMar 2008–Mar 2016
- Director, Programme2006–Mar 2008
- Mar 2002–2006· 3 yrs 10 mos
- CIO & Programme DirectorMar 2002–2006
- Oct 1999–Mar 2002· 2 yrs 5 mos
- Director, ProgrammeOct 1999–Mar 2002
- Sep 1997–Oct 1999· 2 yrs 1 mo
- Global Programmes ManagerSep 1997–Oct 1999
- Jul 1994–Aug 1997· 3 yrs 1 mo
- Director, Information TechnologyJul 1994–Aug 1997
Education
Phd Artificial Intelligence
Coventry UniversityMSc Computer Aided Engineering
Coventry UniversityBEng Hons Mechanical Engineering
The University of Sheffield