IT Winners is directed by Gary Hardy.

IT Winners focus on how IT can be better managed to minimise risk and ensure alignment with real business needs. By applying pragmatic and positive approaches we help organisations to identify and then implement strategies that deliver real improvements in areas such as IT Governance, IT Performance Measurement, IT Security, IT Service Delivery, IT Infrastructure and IT Cost Optimisation.

Gary is a Computer Science graduate with 30 years experience in the IT industry, originally as a systems developer and project manager, and for the past 24 years as a specialist in IT governance, risk management and performance improvement. He has been an Internal Computer Audit Manager, and has held Director positions with Deloitte & Touche and Arthur Andersen and also with one of the UK's leading IT security companies Zergo, now Baltimore. He has consulted with a wide range of companies in the UK and overseas, and led several major IT security projects for the European Commission. He has also acted as Project Monitor to the UK Department of Energy.

Gary is retained as an advisor to Deloitte in South Africa and for the IT Governance Institute.  He also coordinated the IT Governance Special Interest Group for the Impact Programme, one of the UK's leading forums for IT Directors and CIOs.

For more than 25 years, Gary has been an active member of ISACA, the world's leading organisation focused on Information Systems Control. He has been a board member and has held several leadership positions within Europe. In particular, he helped initiate and has been a major contributor throughout ISACA's CobiT® initiative, and serves as advisor to the IT Governance Institute. He helps companies use the CobiT® materials to implement an IT Governance framework and improved IT Management processes, and as a tool for identifying performance improvements.

He is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars, led the development of ISACA's IT Governance education programme, and runs these training courses on IT Governance and COBIT.

He has worked in most parts of Europe, Africa and also in the US. IT Winners is pleased to offer its services on a global basis.

Gary has relationships with a carefully selected network of high class experienced professionals and implementation partners who can work together with IT Winners if required to provide a wide range of IT capabilities.

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