Darren Thomson is Symantec’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Vice-President of Technology for the EMEA region. He has overall technical responsibility for our strategic propositions and he is currently responsible for the development and delivery of IT Risk Management, Virtualization, Mobile and Cloud Computing & “Internet of Things” programmes to our major clients. Prior to this role, Darren was Vice-President and Head of Marketing for EMEA. In this role Darren was held responsible for EMEA Marketing strategy and for all programmes and campaigns that are executed in the region.
Since joining Symantec in July, 2003, Darren has run various groups including global services practices covering Business Continuity Management, Storage & Data Management and Cloud Computing. More recently he and his teams have worked with our clients to improve their IT risk postures and improve their IT operational effectiveness using forward thinking and innovative techniques.
A citizen of the UK, Darren is a published author, his latest work being “Delivery Utility Computing: Business Driven IT Optimization” (ISBN 0-470-01576-4). He was educated at the University of Hertfordshire, England and holds several I.T. related qualifications including ITIL Practitioner, PRINCE2 Project Management, TOGAF Foundations and Management of Risk (“MoR”). Darren is currently studying for a PhD in Social Psychology & Criminology.
