CDO/CTO
Interim and Consulting
Digital Business Ecosystem Enablement
Digital Transformation
Focus
Our ecosystem of cloud-native services and solutions partners focus on the UK's corporate mid-market ( CMM ) and small enterprise organisations. The PKF Business Solutions mantra and core to our DNA and everything we deliver for our customers is
Aligning IT and the Business.
Delivery
PKF Business Solutions focus on delivering our customers the business outcomes your organisation needs in a mode or delivery model that suits your business or budget approach. Everything we plan and deliver is with that end goal of aligning IT with the business.
Proud to be working with our leading
Digital Native Ecosystem partners:
Biomni's industry leading Tenjin platform helps customers resolve more tickets, improves the flow and quality of knowledge within an organisation and delivers a better customer experience. Tenjin links employees with the knowledge, services and automation they need to maintain and enhance productivity whilst reducing the burden on finite IT Ops resources.
CyberQ Group are world renowned cyber experts trusted by leadership teams for cyber intelligence, strategy and operational capability. Their industry leading Fusion Platform enables E2E cyber security as a service. Owned and operated in-house 24/7, the CyberQ Security Operations Centre of Excellence and fully qualified security professionals provide the most advanced AI driven cyber services in the market today.
Inca are a cloud native service provider that solves the challenges for small and medium organisations, around the changing way that they consume IT. The meteoric rise of the public cloud has changed everything commercially and technically, Not constrained by legacy business models or vendor relationships, Inca has developed “WSO by Inca” (Web Services Orchestration), which delivers the attributes of cloud regardless of infrastructure and location.
Illapa focuses on data, and the ability for users to access that data to be able to make rapid informed decisions. The Illapa user interface is designed to be intuitive and requires no prerequisite training. Using the Illapa API framework we are able to connect multiple data sources to deliver the nirvana of a single pane of glass interface. In a dynamic serviced based delivery model it is impossible for human beings to track resource utilisation, the only way that this can be achieved efficiently and accurately is through automation.​
We can enable your organizations back-office services and support systems or more likely these days the very value proposition and services that you offer yourselves to your customers digitally enabled and digitally transformed with Cloud / Automation / Self Service / AI / IoT and data analytics.
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In my 30 plus years working in the UK and Global IT and Network Services sectors I have never seen such an exciting opportunity that sits before us all as we drive from 2023 through to 2025/6.
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The UK is undertaking its largest and most complex Digital Transformation in over thirty years. We have the PSTN / ISDN / WLR switch off along with the consolidation of BT Openreach's Exchange estate from 6000 to 1000 forming the new UK superfast core and all IP network.
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We have the sunsetting of the UK's 2G and 3G networks during 2023/24 to enable the completion of the 5G RAN enablement and the transition from the temporary 5G NSA to the full 5G SA Core enabling the true business value of 5G to be enabled through IOT / MIMO / Ultra Low Latency and Mobile Edge.
Finally and the most exciting proposition in our view we have the business transformation to a services based ( XaaS ) business model across all customer sectors. This is enabled by orchestration and automation of the business process and data. These are the core value propositions that PKF Business Solutions can advise and help you deliver with the end goal to transform your business to the B2C or B2B2X digital business model without huge cost and major capital investment.
ABOUT ME
Paul Farrelly
Founder and Managing Director
PKF Business Solutions
Phone:
07748321135
Email:
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Professional Summary
Experienced executive in customer driven Digital Transformation, CDO and CTO interim execution and ITSP and MSP executive leadership with proven track record delivering business development and sales management execution for next generation technology led organisations. Proven execution across the data centre services, global communications, MSP network managed services, ICT solutions and cloud platform marketplaces. Comprehensive experience delivering end customer digital transformation strategies, direct customer and complex partner led business solutions within the B2B and B2B2X business environments. Numerous new technology introductions and market development projects completed over 30 years of execution within Finance, Banking, Manufacturing and Retail verticals directly as CDO / CTO and as an executive at Computacenter, BT Group, Accenture and Nokia Networks
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HISTORY
EXPERIENCE
2020-2023
Chief Digital Officer
Joined the then Horizon Capital PE owned Timico ISP in Oct 2020 as Chief Digital Officer and member of the exec team to drive the strategy and solution portfolio transformation to enable the planned Horizon PE exit in 2022. Rebuilt the portfolio and presales / solutions architects team from point solution network ISP services to one of the UK's leading Cloud MSP and Digital Transformation providers through the Connected, Productive and Secure Cloud solutions. Digital Space now enables their customers to embrace and maximise the capabilities of cloud architecture to transform their business models and deliver at the hyper-scale of the digital economy.
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I was also responsible for building and enabling the Digital Space Ecosystem of core partners through the core delivery of an E2E Managed Services platform linking the complex and dynamic requirements for hybrid cloud, connectivity and security.
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In 2022 Digital Space became one of the fastest growing Fortinet SDWAN UK based MSP's even beating Fortinet's own incredible growth rate in 2022 and went from near zero to over £ 16 mill of TCV SDWAN managed solutions in the 12 months of 2022 along with a pipeline to double in 2023.
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We completed the project with the sale of Digital Space from Horizon Capital to Graphite Capital in November 2022 and where I leave the DS team with great pride to execute the next 3 to 5 year growth plan and allow me to meet a personal objective to restart my PKF consulting and enablement business.
2010-2020
Global Head of Digital Transformation
Reported to various members of the Nokia Executive team over 10 years including Group CIO and Group COO for last 4 years following the Alcatel Lucent M&A. I led the new technology sales development and GTM initiatives across Nokia’s Global Services, 5G and Telco Cloud portfolios along with leading Nokia’s global digital transformation and development of the Nokia Digital Platform for 5G GTM. Original engagement was PKF but was asked to join full time due to criticality of role and access to executive business critical systems.
2007-2010
Managing Director and Lead Consultant
BUSINESS SOLUTIONS
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Delivered high level executive IT consulting and technology sales management and development
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Delivered interim CIO/IT management for a GP provider in the NHS supplier ecosystem.
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Delivered consulting and planning on IT and networking strategy including RFP management.
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Implemented the first UK service provider IT and network service for GP’s into the NHS.
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Delivered consulting and support for organisational for location moves and post M&A integration
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Implemented Hosted VOIP and remote network services for several SME clients
2005-2007
Business Development Director
Reporting directly to the MD of ATIS ( Accenture Technology Infrastructure Services ) a newly formed group in Accenture offering E2E IT and Network managed services. Led Accenture’s early specialist team development into the European Communications Services Providers.
2002-2005
GM and Head of ICT Solutions
Reporting directly to the Managing Director of BT's Finance and Banking industry sector. Setup and ran the new Presales technical team supporting the BT global Finance sales teams across MPLS / IP / UC / DataCenter / Hosting and Security solutions.
1995-2002
Head of Enterprise Solutions
Formed and led the new Enterprise Solutions Group. This was a new go to market for Computacenter in setting up presales capability and managed services sales teams to support the large and extremely well focused Computacenter direct sales force. Our primary development was around the new growth areas of IT Network Services SAN / NAS Storage driving new relationships for Computacenter across Cisco, Nortel, 3Com as well as HDS, EMC, Netapps and Veritas. Developed the presales team across the UK to support the Computacenter sales teams in delivering multi-vender, technology led integrated solutions as well as working closely with the delivery teams within Computacenter to develop engineering, consulting and managed services capability.
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