Meet our trustees, executives and council

Mr Daljit Rehal FBCS
President 2025-2026
Daljit Rehal is the Chief Digital & Information Officer for HMRC
Daljit joined in Sept 2020 as CDIO for HMRC. Daljit is responsible for all IT systems for HMRC and VOA, Daljit is also responsible for the running of Live Services of critical systems for our customers.
Daljit is a member of Cross Government forum and is a subject matter expert in his field, he is a proven leader with experience in creating business value through Culture, People, Process and Technology.
Daljit has a particular passion for leading change, focused on customer outcomes. He has over 20 years of experience in exploiting a variety of enterprise technologies and managing vendor relationships and outsource partners to achieve business objectives.

EUR ING Alastair Revell CITP CEng FBCS
Immediate Past President 2025-2026
Alastair leads the management and technology consulting practice that he established in 1985. He holds a number of board appointments with IT bodies, including the Engineering Council. He is passionate about ethical practice and an ardent advocate of chartered professionalism.

Sarah Winmill CITP CEng FBCS
Deputy President 2025 – 2026
Sarah joined the Ministry of Defence in 2020 as CIO of the Functions, moving to Head of Software Products in Defence’s Digital Foundry in 2024. Previously she was Chief Information Officer for the British Transport Police, leading the delivering of ICT services supporting 3,500 police officers across Great Britain. In 2020 she was #6 in the UK CIO100, improving her 2019 position, when she was also listed as one of the 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech. A past Chair of Charity IT Leaders, her career has seen her work at some of the UK's most iconic visitor attractions including the V&A Museum, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Academy of Arts, Hampton Court Palace and HM Tower of London, as well as University College London. Throughout her career she has been passionate about delivering outcomes for high expectation customers where there is only one chance to get it right.
Sarah is a Chartered IT Professional (CITP), a Chartered Engineer (CEng), a Chartered Fellow (FBCS) of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists. She is an alumnus of the Royal College of Music, holds an MSc in Data Communications from Kingston University, London and an MBA from the Open University. She served in the Royal Signals, Territorial Army in the 1990’s and is a current member of the UK Cyber Reserve.
Sarah is passionate about working in tech and the creative opportunities tech careers offer all, particularly those from areas of society currently under-represented in the industry.

Nic Granger CITP FBCS
Vice-President, Finance 2025-2028
Having worked internationally and in the UK in both the commercial and public sectors, Nic has served as Chief Information and Financial Officer. She leads an award-winning team that delivers digital, data, technology, and financial solutions for the North Sea Transition Authority. She also chairs the Offshore Energy Digital Strategy Group, sits on the boards of CAST: the Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology and the Bat Conservation Trust, and is a member of a technology and data assurance panel for a housing association. Nic was included in the CIO100 list for 2023 and 2024, as well as the Government Transformation100 list for 2024.

Mr Hugh Greenway MBCS
Vice-President, Trustee Director, BCS Learning & Development Ltd 2025-2028
Hugh is CEO of the Elliot Foundation, which he has led since inception in 2011. Before this he ran education and training businesses across Europe for the IIR Group and Reed Global. He is a Trustee for two Academy Trusts and sits on the education advisory boards of the British Council and the Education Policy Institute.

Mr Robert Thompson FBCS
Vice-President, Trustee Director, BCS Learning & Development Ltd 2024-2027
Rob, an accomplished CTO & CDIO, spearheads technology and innovation at the UK Home Office. Renowned for strategic vision and impactful leadership, he excels in digital transformation, product development, and leading large-scale IT organisations, delivering critical services in challenging environments.

Professor Alastair Irons CITP FBCS
Vice-President, Academy 2023-2026
Alastair is Dean of the Faculty of Technology at the University of Sunderland. He’s held a wide range of senior academic positions over his three-decade career and was part of the consortium that obtained the Institute of Coding project, worth £40m.

Sharon Moore MBE CITP FBCS
Vice-President, Registration and Standards Committee 2025-2028
Sharon is IBM's CTO for Public Sector in the UK, with a personal goal to transform public service, safety and policing with technology. She has nearly 20 years of experience working in the tech industry, across multiple sectors, and you’ll often find her on stage helping shape the impact technology can have on our lives.

Dr Kevin Chalmers CITP CEng FBCS
Vice-President, Community Board 2024-2027

Dr Kevin Chalmers is Deputy Dean at the University of Roehampton and a senior academic leader with extensive experience in computing education, curriculum development, and professional standards. As Vice-President and Chair of the Community Board at BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, he is committed to fostering collaboration across the BCS membership, supporting professional growth, and advancing the role of IT in society.

With a background in software engineering, Dr Chalmers has contributed to the development of computing education frameworks and accreditation standards, ensuring alignment with industry needs and professional best practices. He has been an active member of BCS for many years, advocating for professional recognition and the continuous development of computing professionals.

Beyond BCS, he plays a key role in the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing (CPHC), shaping national policy on computing education. Passionate about leadership in academia, he is dedicated to supporting computing professionals at all career stages and strengthening the connection between academic institutions, industry, and professional bodies.

Jo Stansfield MBCS
Elected by Council 2023-2026

Jo is Founder of Inclusioneering, a social enterprise that supports technology and engineering organisations with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Responsible Innovation practices. Jo began her career as an engineer, developing enterprise software for global industry. Having pivoted her focus to human dimensions of engineering, Jo now works as a Business Psychologist. She brings deep understanding of the engineering culture, and lived experience as a woman within it, to her work.

Professor James Davenport CITP HonFBCS
Elected by Council 2022-2025
James has been at the University of Bath since 1983, after researching at Grenoble, Cambridge and IBM USA. He is in both departments of Mathematical Sciences and Computer Science, as well as having significant roles in the Computing Service (HPC, Security). He has chaired several European research grants.

Charlie Houston-Brown CEng MBCS
Elected by Council 2024-2027

Bio to follow.

Rob Deri FCA BFP MBCS
Interim Chief Executive Officer

Rob was appointed interim Group Chief Executive Officer of BCS in January 2025, a role he previously held for much of 2022. Before this, he served as Chief Operating Officer and Group Finance Director of BCS since 2016.

A Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, Rob trained with KPMG and brings over 30 years of experience in senior finance and Board-level roles. His career spans organisations such as the Burton Group, BT Mobile Communications, and positions as Group Finance Director at Grattan Plc, ZOO Digital Plc, and a National Children’s Charity.

Rob has also served as Chair of Hull and East Yorkshire Acute Hospital Trust, holding non-executive Board roles, including six years as Chair of the Risk and Audit Committee. He is currently Chair of the SFIA Foundation.

Julia Adamson MBE CITP FBCS FRSA 
Managing Director BCS Education and Public Benefit
Once a teacher herself, she has a track record of successfully managing education technology programmes and was involved in establishing the Barefoot Computing Programme across the UK.
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Carl Harris CITP MBCS
Executive Director, Brand
Carl helps us engage effectively with members, the wider industry and general public. He began his BCS career back in 1998 managing our website, and has since led significant programmes of change to our infrastructure and business systems.
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Wendy Franklin
Director of Group Finance
Wendy joined BCS a number of years ago and heads up our Finance operation. She has previous experience in many sectors including manufacturing and mobile technology and is a member of CIMA.

BCS Council acts as the conscience of the Institute, advising and guiding our Trustee Board and holding it accountable against our royal charter, charitable objectives and values.

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