His involvement in Enterprise Architecture began when he was appointed Chief Technology Officer at the Office for National Statistics in 2004 and continued when he took up the role of Chief Architect at Emirates Group in 2011. Prior to returning to the UK in 2017, he spent five years as Senior Executive Partner for Gartner, coaching and advising business and IT executives across the Gulf. His interest in evaluating competing solution architectures dates back almost 20 years to a project he led as head of e-business research at IBM’s Zurich Research Laboratory, and the resulting Solution Architecture Review Method has been further developed and deployed in a number of major corporations in Europe and the Middle East.