Staff Interview Name Phil White Job title Group Chief Information Officer Department/Division Group IT Date of joining Axis CLC November 2024 Based Stratford / Home / Oldbury / Southampton What were you doing immediately before joining us? CIO for UK construction firms Previous experience? 30 years in IT, with preference for Change and Integration / Transformation roles. Plans for the merged business in outline? Merge and build on the Groups combined IT expertise. How will your plans improve our business? One joined-up IT platform that provides modern and cyber-resilient productivity capabilities. Focus on providing best-in-class Operational systems for our Maintenance business.
Any challenges you would like to share? Managing the balance of change across pace and communications; moving quickly and being transparent whilst following the correct processes that ensure equity of opportunity. Immediate priorities – what does your day look like? Getting the right people into the right roles for both them and the business. Organising our teams and providing ‘end state’ principles so we can drive change activity forwards whilst knowing what our Integrated end state looks like. Goals for the business? Enabling growth in top line revenue and retained profit. Getting and then staying cyber secure.
What do you need from the business/us to achieve these goals? Continued engagement from all business leaders, who have all been very helpful so far. Some blue-sky thinking / challenges on how we might use AI to differentiate our offering, increase safety or further improve client engagement. Any thoughts on the integration process that you would like to share? So far, this integration is quite recognisable. It can be challenging when growing a company from family-led into a broader corporate structure, but there are some recognisable business strengths and traits that I’ve seen in prior Integrations.