Jos is an independent digital consultant and analyst, providing advice to public and private sectors on IT and digital transformation strategies, business risk, marketing, and customer service. He also undertakes research for a range of universities and professional bodies in the UK and internationally, including on health and social care integration, ‘connected places’, digital identity, trends, and cyber risk.
He started his career as a government statistician specialising in health informatics systems and policy and is a past president of the British Computer Society (BCS) and of the Society of Innovation, Technology and Management (Socitm). For over a decade he was CIO and CDO for Hampshire County Council, named by the Silicon50 survey as the ‘UKs most innovative and influential CIO’.
Jos has been the chair of the Open University School of Computing Industrial Board and a NED for the Department of International Trade. He is currently an NED of Hampshire Hospitals Foundations Trust and is on the Board of Wessex Procurement Limited which serves several hospitals in the Hampshire region.