Jo Hawes

Jo Hawes has spent more than 25 years in the IT Services industry. Having worked for IBM, she joined Gartner Group in Australia. On her return to the UK, she opened the first Gartner Group office in the UK. From Gartner she moved to Wentworth Research and then to The Giga Information Group, where she became the second member of the organisation when they went live in the UK. When Giga was acquired by Forrester Research, Jo continued working for the organisation until she joined The Executive Mapping Company in 2006.

After years of listening to and understanding CIO's issues and pressures, Jo's is well placed to organise round table discussions for CIO's focusing their business challenges. She is well versed at facilitating networking opportunities for CIO's to share experiences together to try to find solutions to their pressing organisational issues.