Location: Ely, Cambridgeshire
Neil Acworth is GRC International Group’s CIO (Chief Information Officer) and heads up the Software as a Service division. This dual role covers responsibility for leading Information Services and the Group's software product development efforts. On a day-to-day basis, this means looking after the hybrid infrastructure, platforms and services that keep the business running, whilst also managing the group’s software teams who produce internal solutions as well as commercial products. Acworth joined the Group in 2012 after working at Featurespace as CTO (Chief Technology Officer).
What was your first job? My first fulltime job was creating e-learning courses in the engineering department of my university, something I fell into during the holidays – at that point I had no intention of working in IT, but one of the professors recognised that I had a talent for it.