Pete Yates's Linkedin Analytics

A Technology Executive with a strong transformation, delivery and security focus who can create a climate for the adoption of change and technologies to enhance customer engagement, increase revenue, and to simplify and improve business processes. Able to create strategic initiatives to deliver business value whilst constantly looking for ways to improve and to positively challenge the status quo through creating high performing teams which execute on these initiatives for the organisation. Known as an engaging leader that creates empowered and highly motivated teams that deliver results and recognised by his peers as one of the top CIOs in New Zealand. "If technology is not making life easier, then I am doing something wrong." Pete has managed large Technology teams (80+) working with complex/critical 24/7 systems in industries such as local and central government, education, healthcare, electricity utilities, geotechnical engineering, telecommunications (Wi-Fi, ISP), travel/tourism, not for profit, software (Health and Government Registries), media (SVOD, radio and OOH) and IT outsourcing (networking/security and IT MSP). A valuable asset to any Organisation: - Setting strategic direction and governance frameworks; - Creating, growing and developing successful IT teams with high customer satisfaction level (90%+); - Cybersecurity - programme of work, including PCI-DSS and NIST-CSF experience as a CISO; - Specialises in creating IT teams from scratch; - Consistently delivers on Strategy; - Successfully managing operating ($20m+) and capital budgets ($5m); - Develop and retain talent in large high performing teams (70+) over multi sites & countries; - Successfully delivering large programmes of work as a Programme Director (c$20m); - M&A experience leading technology due diligence and integration in to business systems/processes; - Experience turning around IT services, projects and teams; - Adept at working in fast paced/changing environments; - Strategic thinker who enables and empowers teams to deliver; - Experience utilising Lean/Agile Management, process/business performance improvement; - Product management/ownership for internal technology services; - Significant real life Crisis and Business Continuity Management experience.