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O'Hare's potential: technology Czar?
Monday 17th August 2009
Raymond O'Hare. Courtesy:http://blogs.technet.com/tartantech/archive
A year ago, Andrew Rigby, partner in the law firm of Brodies, set up an Outsourcing Hub Initiative Think tank to encourage global firms to outsources high end business processes to Scotland. He believed Scotland should have an outsourcing and technical Czar to promote these opportunities. Now it looks as if a potential personality would be available in Raymond O'Hare. Resigning as regional director of Microsoft in Scotland, he would make a formidable Czar.
His career included worked for Digital Equipment in Liverpool and Scotland before joining Microsoft. The mover in bringing Microsoft's founder Bill Gates to Edinburgh during Microsoft's European Government Leaders Forum in 2007, also took the Scottish Microsoft operations into its major offices at Edinburgh's Waverley Gate.
O'Hare intends to stay in Scotland and remain at the chair of the Institute of Directors in Scotland for the next 18 months. He sits on a variety of influential boards and forums, including the government's National Economic Forum and Skills Utilisation Leadership Group.
He has said he would consider a new permanent role outside the technology sector. "There are many areas of the private and public sector where I could make a contribution. If the right role came up in the public sector I would look at it," he is quoted as saying.
Here's hoping Scotland does not waste this livewire.
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