Until June this year, Mike Wright was Head of Technology at Man Group plc, a world-leading alternative investment manager. Previously he headed IT at Fidelity International and at the Willis Group Ltd. In addition to these CIO roles, Mike has seen the financial services industry and IT function from a number of other vantage points. Between 1984 and 1997, he worked as a consultant at both Accenture and McKinsey on various IT and general business assignments; he founded and ran a software products company for four years, and was also a non executive director of another software start up specialising in digital rights management.