EXECUTIVE PROFILE
Darren Jones
Darren is an accomplished IT leader with over 25 years
of experience both in industry and as a consultant. With
demonstrated abilities in motivating and leading
technical personnel, project managers and consultants,
Darren has worked in a diversity of roles — as
Director of the CIO Solutions consulting function at
a large consulting f irm, a senior executive and
investor in fintech start-ups, leading the Security &
Critical Infrastructure Solutions function at a major
stock exchange, the VP of Information Security
Solutions for one of the world’s first integrated managed
solutions providers, and as the Senior Manager and lead
for eSecurity Architecture Solutions practice area at a
big 4 firm. This breadth and depth of experience
provides Darren’s clients with a perspective
that is at once strategic and pragmatic.ment of governance; to ensure the
ongoing vitality of measuring success;
and to have a whole strategy wrapped
around that implementation.” He notes
that putting these elements in place is
key to helping to ensure dialogue with
clients moves beyond empathy into the
practical implementation of solutions.
Jones emphasises the importance of
not only creating solutions that are
cost effective, but also ensuring a client
feels positive about the future result-
ing from the solution: “It’s using that
frame as a way of helping the client
to not only see a positive future, but
visualise what’s positive about the
future for them.” This is particularly
important, he says, as KPMG does
not operate solutions for its clients,
so it is imperative that they are
pleased with and are ready to take
ownership of the result.369http://www.gigabitmagazine.com