Takumi SatoChief Information Officer

A-01 · Subject

Takumi Sato

Connecting technology investment to enterprise outcomes.

I connect enterprise technology decisions with the way an organisation serves customers, manages risk and gets work done.

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  • Board appointments
  • Advisory roles
  • Speaking invitations
Portrait of Takumi Sato
Elevation · Chief Information Officer

Specification

The scale of the work.

Ref.MeasureValueNote
S-01Applications retired62%Simplified estate in three years
S-02Core platform availability99.98%Through a full modernisation
S-03Run-cost released₹740 CrReinvested in digital products
S-04Countries on one ERP14From nine legacy systems

Modules of expertise

The load-bearing capabilities.

  • MOD-01Digital transformation
  • MOD-02Cyber resilience
  • MOD-03Enterprise architecture
  • MOD-04Data governance

Career elevation

Built in stages.

  1. Stage 04 · 2020 — Present

    Chief Information Officer

    Aldermoor Group

    Accountable for enterprise technology strategy, information governance and service resilience.

  2. Stage 03 · 2016 — 2020

    Vice President, Enterprise Technology

    Fairhaven Holdings

    Led enterprise systems and technology delivery teams through application change and service integration.

  3. Stage 02 · 2011 — 2016

    Head of Enterprise Architecture

    Meridian Consolidated

    Designed the target architecture that let the group consolidate acquisitions in months rather than years.

  4. Stage 01 · 2006 — 2011

    Programme Director, Core Systems

    Westmoor Housing Finance

    Delivered a core-banking replacement with zero customer-facing outages, and learned how to sequence risk.

Detail drawings

Where the decisions were made.

01Detail

Enterprise modernisation

A fragmented application estate was making business change harder to coordinate. I established an enterprise roadmap grounded in business capabilities, mapped critical dependencies and agreed a staged transition with the operating teams. The work gave sponsors a clear view of what each phase enabled and prevented local projects from creating new enterprise constraints.

02Detail

Resilience programme

Resilience had been discussed as a technical topic detached from business continuity. We mapped critical services to their technology dependencies, clarified recovery responsibilities and rehearsed decision-making across teams. The programme made ownership visible and turned resilience into an operating conversation involving the people who would make decisions during disruption.

03Detail

Data transformation

Different business units used the same terms for different measures. I convened business owners and technology leaders to establish shared definitions, ownership and practical controls around important data. We began with specific decisions that needed better information, allowing the value of governance to be demonstrated through everyday use.

Board record

Governance structures served.

  • Westmoor Housing Finance

    Independent Director

    IT Strategy (Chair) · Risk

    2022 — Present

  • The Digital Public Goods Council

    Advisory Board Member

    Cyber Resilience Working Group

    2020 — Present

Peer review

Notes from those who appoint.

Made technology a boardroom conversation about outcomes, not acronyms.
Priya RamanChair, Risk Committee, Westmoor Housing Finance
Modernised the core while the business kept running at full speed. A rare combination of courage and care.
Marcus HaleChief Executive, Meridian Consolidated

Working notes

Essays and perspectives.

An invitation

Let's draw up what comes next.

For board, advisory and leadership conversations where digital transformation matters.

Open to
  • Board appointments
  • Advisory roles
  • Speaking invitations

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