Biography

Enrique Fernandez-Pino is an Associate Professor in Leadership in Technology and AI at Northeastern University London. His teaching specialisms include Leadership in Technology and AI, and Project and Programme Management.

Enrique is an experienced CIO (Chief Information Officer) and Technology Transformation Director with over 30 years’ experience in innovation, strategy development, digital redesign, and large-scale change and programme management.

He has a proven track record of developing a clear vision and strategy for business and technology opportunities and issues, and to convert it into pragmatic, down-to-earth implementable solutions. He is used to delivering complex projects in multinational, multicultural, multidisciplinary and multi-site environments.

Enrique has been Group CIO for the Go-Ahead Group (Public Transport FTSE250, National Critical Infrastructure, £4bn turnover and 30,000 employees), Global CIO for Chubb (Security, £2bn turnover and 13,000 employees) and Technology Transformation Director for Essentra (Manufacturing FTSE250). In early 2020 he decided to start his own business and currently works as an independent consultant in a large Data Transformation project for Network Rail, a company responsible for the 20,000 miles of rail track and infrastructure of the railways in the UK, 40,000 employees). Enrique is also a Non-Executive Director for Transport for London (IIPAG committee).

Qualifications

First Honours Degree in Business Law (ICADE University, Madrid)

Prince 2 Registered Practitioner (APMG Group)

Black Belt Six Sigma (Accenture)

Research

Practical Uses of AI in Public Transport

Impact of digitalisation on the Public Transport Industry (2021)

Towards and metaverse (2022)

Simplifying Change (2023), conceived as a simple tool for Executives leading, or heavily involved in, transformative change, especially if it involves technology. ISBN 9781803136264

Enrique also writes articles regularly in LinkedIn