Anna Barsby
Anna has been one of the UK’s top CIO’s and is a People and Transformation Leader, used to delivering large scale change across different industries. Most recently the CIO at Asda, Halfords & Morrison’s, she significantly improves technology capabilities in organisations. A people-centred leader with core strengths in strategy, delivery creativity and customer focus, Anna has worked with a number of FTSE100, FTSE250 and regulatory organisations at a senior level.
She has led business transformation programmes involving major offshoring. A judge for ‘Everywoman In Technology’, ‘Women In IT Awards, Anna was also a finalist for the European CIO of the year in 2015. She ranked number 1 in the CIO list in 2014 and winner of the ‘CIO of the year’ 2014, at the Women in IT awards. Adding further still to her impressive list of credentials, Anna is an external advisor to Bain Consulting, was ranked in the top 15 Innovative Influencers in Retail in 2018 and has sat on Retail Week Live Advisory Board.
As a Founder and Managing Partner at Tessiant, Anna specialises in:
- Helping embed technology, digital & data into organisations.
- Defining the strategy and role of technology, digital and data.
- Supporting leaders to build the right operating model, teams and capability.
- Successfully delivering culture and transformative change.
- Providing executive coaching to current CIO’s and senior leaders.
Outside of work Anna has two wonderful children, a fiance and dogs. She enjoys sketching, walking, travelling and reading.