Kevin Borley
Bloor Alumni
Kevin Borley was a career CIO and joint founder of “The CIO Partnership”.
The CIO partnership specialise in providing management support, consulting and advisory services to organisations that cannot justify a full time CIO, but who would benefit from regular focussed advice on IT service delivery, strategy and sourcing issues.
For the past 30 years Kevin has been in the forefront of corporate IT management and has had responsibility for both strategy and service delivery in senior IT Director and CIO roles.
He has also managed delivery across a wide and diverse range of businesses in Europe, the USA and Asia-Pac. He had extensive Board experience and has also held membership of a number of senior CIO advisory panels and best practice forums.
Kevin built a successful management career with blue chip multinationals, such as EMI, Thorn, The London International Group, and worldwide with Granada Group Plc, Bertelsmann Buch AG (Book Club Associates), Syntegra (the IT services and consultancy division of the BT Group). Recent SME / mid cap experience has been gained supporting Business Exchange plc, MWB Group plc., The Shaw Trust and Employment Opportunities.
His management experience includes mentoring executive and operational managers, management of business change programmes, IT planning, support for M&A and divestment activity, re-vitalising underperforming IT organisations, outsourcing and in-sourcing programmes and management of service providers, management of off-shore software development programmes; in addition to operational management of secure, commercially critical and large scale IT infrastructure.
Kevin passed away in 2022.