Tim Murfet

Investor

2018 - Current

Active investor in Technology based start-ups/scale-ups. I perform specialist technology based due-diligence on prospective investments and coordinate interaction between the Chief Technology Officers of the portfolio companies

Board Observer

2020

Non Executive Director

2020 - 2020

Chairman Of The Board

2015

Director

2010 - 2017

I started my own consulting company. Recent projects included work for a large Financial Services company: - Definition of continuous improvement processes and KPIs for the Technology Innovation Team. - Definition of the Big Data strategy. - Assistance with the European systems strategy.

Chief Technology Officer

2010 - 2016

Responsible for defining and reviewing the technology vision for Ixaris. Ixaris operates B2B and B2C businesses based around virtual Visa and MasterCard cards and internet payments. There is a strong focus on travel and commercial procurement. Responsible for industrialising and consolidating the IT function across development and support. This included implementing a process based organisation with recognised KPIs. At the end of my work at Ixaris, I became a non-executive director at Board level.

Management Consultant

1988 - 2009

Management Consultant work at many clients including: - For large global financial payments institution (8 years). Programme lead for major clearing and settlement system; fraud system; recurring payments system. Lead consultant in defining European IT strategy. - For large oil company (2 years). Lead architecture advisor. - For consumer payments organisation (1 year). Lead for work to create IT strategy. - For health insurer (1 year). Lead to create IT strategy. - For retail bank (2 years). Programme lead for the restructuring of the IT Service Delivery organisation. - For retail bank (2.5 years). Lead technical architect for single customer view based branch banking systems. - For major global stock exchange (2 years). Lead technical architect for Trading Systems. - For major UK power company (2 years). Lead technical architect. - For UK government. Project manager for end to end architecture for distributed benefits payment systems.

Managing Senior Executive

2006 - 2009

Leader of Accenture Technology Consulting in the U.K. The group comprised 350 consultants covering several technical disciplines including Enterprise Architecture, Security, Networks, Workplace, IT Strategy, and Data Centre.

Global Lead of Enterprise Architecture

2005 - 2008

Leadership of 330 consultants located across many countries. This included defining global sales offerings and methods used for Enterprise Architecture across the whole Accenture business. The focus of EA is analysing a business and defining the enabling technology.

Managing Partner Europe - Architecture and Core Technologies

2001 - 2005

I was Managing Partner for Accenture's specialist cross-European technology resources. During my leadership, the team grew from around 350 people based mostly in Sophia Antipolis in the South of France and London to around 1000 people covering 19 European countries. At that point, we decided that we had achieved critical mass and we restructured the group to fall under local country leadership rather than European leadership. I became the MD of the UK team.

Network Consultant

1981 - 1988

I started as an assembler programmer. This led to a period in the US where I helped to set-up CASE's US development operation. I moved to customer facing roles as a systems engineer and product manager. My last role was in helping to set up the facilities management business where I was CASE's first network manager for a corporate client.