1. Curriculum Vitae (Sept 2015)
Name: Rod Jackson
Email: rod@etherlive.co.uk Tel: 01793-695074 (home), 07740-449634 (mobile)
April 2015 to present, Non-Executive Chairman and majority shareholder of Etherlive limited… provider of
technology services to the events, venues and hospitality industry.
Jan 2008 to Sept 2015, Chairman and CEO aap3
… Executive leadership of a £30m global IT services & recruitment
company operating across 28 countries.
- Business grown from £6m to £30m (50 to 500 employees) with multiple accreditations, fortune 100 customers
- Three successful acquisitions (including acquiring a US company)
- Main club sponsor for Southampton FC during 2 promotion years to premier league status
- Saints Foundation Trustee (4 year term ending 2019)
- Chairman of Business South from June 2013 - June 2015
Sept 2003, Cisco Systems, Vice President, IT Global Shared Services, also Chairman of the Board for
“Preferred International” (rebranded aap3
in 2008)… Worldwide responsibility for ALL IT shared services including
Enterprise Architecture, Cisco.com, Vendor Management, IT Theatre management, Global Development Centre, mergers &
acquisitions, Collaboration services, IT walk-in centres, Compliance & Operational Excellence…COO for Cisco IT, Chairman of
Preferred International IT, CIO Board member for HP, advisory board member for BT & C&W.
- Globalisation of Cisco IT
- Built and executive management of the “Global IT Development Centre” in Bangalore (1,500 Staff)
- Architected spin out of “Preferred International IT”
April 2001, Cisco Systems, Vice President, CIO, EMEA…CIO responsibility for All Information Technology activities
supporting the Cisco EMEA theatre…EMEA executive Board member…Responsible for a department of some 600
Geographically dispersed IT professionals $300m budget…Executive sponsor for Cisco Green Park Campus.
- Introduced new Management by Objective planning & Staff Ranking & Rating process
- Re-located IT in UK to 2 new purpose built locations
- Keynote speaker and Industry technology host.
June 2000, Intel Online Services, Senior Director, World-Wide Operations…Responsibility for Intel Online Services
World wide hosting operations group, consisting of some 1200 employees in 7 countries across the globe… $1bn budget.
- Development & Implementation of Operations Global presence strategy
- Record implementation of Tier1 data centres in Japan, US, UK, Belgium & Australia
- Creation & Implementation of the Virtual Data Centre concept to operations
August 1998, Intel Online Services, Director, EMEA Operations…Establishment of the EMEA Operations organisation
for Intel Online Services, includes P&L responsibility for the entire Europe Geography.
- Established the Processes, physical infrastructure, buildings and hiring of >200 staff to set up the European
Division for Intel Online services. (3 months ahead of schedule & within budget!)
- Hosted the UK’s biggest Web site in first month of operation.
Sept 1996, Intel Corporation, Regional IT Director, Greater Europe Theatre…CIO for Intel Corporation in Europe, 500
IT professionals, across 27 countries, including Sales, manufacturing, and Design Engineering functions...$200m budget.
- Architect of IT Regionalisation (used as a role model for fiscal & operational excellence).
- Recognised breakthrough performance for manufacturing & Design Engineering computing within Intel.
- Vendor of Choice customer rating at 100% for 3 years consecutively.
Mar 1991, Intel Corporation, Director Europe IT…Responsibility for all IT functions within the Sales & marketing Geographic
region of Europe, 200 IT professionals across 12 countries...$75m budget.
- Built the first shareholders view of IT in Intel.
- Delivered a fully integrated approach to Field Sales productivity.
- Architect of “Office-Lan”, PC water falling, & Enterprise Release Management.
- Managed the “SAP R3” Implementation.
Jan 1987, Intel Corporation, Intel Product Group, IS Manager…creation & management of IPGE Information systems
group. With World-wide responsibility for Intel’s network service/Customer support & Application development team in UK/US.
- Consolidation of Intel product group information systems activities into a single developer team.
- Set-up Intel’s first Global Application development team managed outside of the US.
- Negotiated the successful divestiture of Intel’s “Customer Support Organisation”.
Jan 1984, Intel Corporation, Europe Finance Systems & Training Manager…Systems accountant, responsible for all
financial systems in Europe, in addition management of the training and Returns and adjustments activity for Europe.
- Co-developed Intel’s first online General Ledger system on an IBM platform.
- Designed & implemented a real time multi-currency conversion system for the GL (saving $2m per annum)
Sept 1979, Raychem Corporation (now TYCO), Systems accountant & accruals controller
Sept 1976, Lloyds Bank PLC, Refer Clerk