Meet James Anderson, our Chief Information Officer
James joined Accent as their first Chief Information Officer (CIO) in June 2024. A highly experienced leader of technology transformations and IT operations, he has put the customer at the heart of everything he delivered, promoting more efficient and effective ways of working.
James has spent the previous 9 years as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the Health and Safety Executive, helping this UK regulator modernise its technologies and digital services, improving its reach and effectiveness. Prior to the HSE, he spent 4 years as the Group IT Director of The Guinness Partnership (TGP) and a couple of years with the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission (CMEC) which is now the Child Maintenance Group in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
The first 17 years of his career were spent in the British Army, serving with the Royal Corps of Signals and Queens Gurkha Signals in various corners of the globe mostly on operations providing communications, computing and headquarters support, notably in Hong Kong, Northern Ireland, Germany, Bosnia, Kosovo, United Kingdom and Kuwait. He was also fortunate to spend a 2-year secondment to the US Army in the Pentagon, Washington DC as one of the US Army’s lead Enterprise Architects.