CTO Blog authors biographies

Andy Mulholland

Global Chief Technology Officer, Capgemini

Andy Mulholland is a leading thinker and practitioner helping clients recognise the impact of new technologies on their business models. Andy joined Capgemini in 1996 with thirteen years of experience in senior IT roles. Mulholland’s role of Global Chief Technology Officer includes advising the Capgemini Group management board on all aspects of technology-driven market changes. He has led Capgemini’s advanced technology focus. In the last six years, Andy has also published seven white papers, proposed Technology Architectural models, three of which have become the norm throughout the Technology industry, and most recently lead Capgemini’s vision on business driven technology clusters. Andy's first book, Mashup Corporations The End of Business As Usual, co-authored with Chris Thomas of Intel was published in October 2006. Prior to joining Capgemini Andy has been the founder, or co-founder, of four technology companies that have either been acquired by leading multinational technology companies, or gone public on the small capital NASDAQ.

Books; author acknowledgements for contributions or influence on the content:

• Joined Up Systems — Authors: Trevor Elliott & Dave Herbert ; Publisher: Management Consultancies Association
• Innovation — Editor: Adam Jolly; Sponsored by UK Dept of Industry ; Publisher: Kogan Page
• Java Spaces in Practice — Authors: Philip Bishop & Nigel Warren ; Publisher: Addison Wesley
• Enterprise Services Architecture Author: Dan Woods ; Sponsored by SAP Software ; Publisher: O’Reilly
• Innovating IT — Author: Lior Arussy ; Publisher: Wiley

Ron Tolido

Vice President at Capgemini Netherlands and Chief Technology Officer for the Northern Europe and Asia Pacific regions

Ron Tolido is a Vice President at Capgemini Netherlands and Chief Technology Officer for the Northern Europe and Asia Pacific regions. Also, he is a Governing Director of the Open Group. He studied Dutch Language and Literature at the University of Leiden before earning a BSc in Information Technology at The Hague Polytechnic. Trained by AT&T’s Bell Labs, he was one of the first Unix System V kernel specialists in the Netherlands. During his career, Mr. Tolido has been involved in many different engagements pertaining to (commercial) software product development, technology consulting, architecture and IT strategy, both in operational and executive roles.

He published several books on software engineering, including 'object-oriented modeling & C++' and 'IAD, evolutionary development of information systems'. He is or has been a columnist for IT magazines such as Software Release Magazine, Corporate .Net Magazine, Datanews [corporate] solutions and Business Consultant magazine.

Mr. Tolido is a frequently invited, vivid speaker on innovative IT subjects. He is a jury member of the annual Benelux 'Development Tools' RAD Race. Furthermore, he is the external examiner for the Master of Science Course E-technology of Knowledge Centre Cibit / University of Middlesex, a member of the Programme Committee of the Dutch NWO 'Jacquard' IT innovation / stimulation programme and board member of Gridforum Netherlands. He acted in the board of commissioners of MarketXS (market data technology) and is currently a member of the advisory board of Astragy (strategic intelligence services).

Mr. Tolido's interests include excesses in philosophy and literature. He is sort of obsessed with Open Source and extreme transparency (which notoriously includes his Apple Cube). Furthermore, he is reported to do anything to simplify things.