News for the UK market:
Former Tesco CIO joins HMRC Non-exec techie gets on board HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has snapped up former Tesco CIO Colin Cobain as a non-executive director. Cobain, who stepped down from Tesco in 2007 after six years with the retail giant, will sit on the HMRC board. According to HMRC, the board's job is to give the department "strategic leadership", oversee its governance and performance as well as green light business plans. Cobain is currently interim group CIO with SABMiller - the brewer behind beer brands including Miller and Peroni - and chairman of medical technology company Safe Surgery Systems. Previously, Cobain has held positions including IT director with EMI Thorn and Rumbelows. Cobain will be joined by three other newly appointed non-executive directors at the HMRC: Philippa Hird, Phil Hodkinson and Dame Sue Street, with all appointments made for a three-year period. Maybe we will have joined up online systems that work properly. Tesco used to be the 3rd/4th largest supermarket chain 15+ years ago. Now they are no1, 60% of money spend on food goes through their tills. They introduced a variety of new methods of selling, Club cards, banking online, insurance. (Wife's car got bumped this morning, our insurance is with Tesco as is the offending driver) If I remember right his salary at Tesco was £250,000 -- Andrew Stirling 01250 874580 http://www.calcpay.co.uk HMRC Accredited UK payroll program _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/496492ef.6010...@calcpay.co.uk ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
