Video Q&A: Keith Young, IT director, Standard Life - part one

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Young talks about developing IT leadership at the insurance giant - part one of a two-part video interview

As part of Computing's Tomorrow's IT Leaders campaign, we talk to the UK's top chief information officers (CIOs) to get their views on the role of IT leaders and how this will change in the post-recession world.

Keith Young has worked at Standard Life for 22 years and has led the company's technology agenda as IT director since 2001. He will retire at the end of this year.

In this video, he talks to Angelica Mari and Colin Beveridge, chairman at The Better Practice Forum about the the firm's success in developing its technology workforce under his mandate.

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