Nathan will be sharing expert insights in Panel Session 1 – The art of the possible: bold ideas from beyond HE
Nathan has a long history of working with the shared services environment, leading transformation programmes and implementing ERP systems within the Civil Service, including those at Cabinet Office, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and UK Space Agency.
Currently Nathan is leading the UK Shared Services for Government, launched in 2021, which is an unprecedented cross-government strategy to break down silos and enable data-driven public services. It has already brought together 18 different departments and over 100 ALBs into five clusters to replace cyber vulnerable, legacy IT systems with modern, user friendly, cloud-based systems. Going down from 286 siloed departmental-based systems to five interoperable ones. The benefits of delivering the Strategy are estimated at around £4.3 bn over 15 years. Nathan has been in the role of Director for Shared Services since May 2021.
Prior to this role, Nathan was Deputy Director of Shared Services at BEIS leading a £100m transformation programme and Defra Group corporate services.
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