Socitm appoints Birmingham City Council's Glyn Evans as president

Local authority IT body Socitm has appointed Glyn Evans (above), corporate director of business change at Birmingham City Council, as its new president.

The announcement was made at the association's AGM and spring conference yesterday.

Evans has worked in local government IT for the past 30 years and will replace Jos Creese, head of ICT, Hampshire County Council, who had been in the role for a year.

Evans was appointed director of business solutions and IT for Birmingham City Council in November 2003 with a remit to drive forward a business transformation programme across the council.

In this role he helped establish a joint-venture company with the private sector to support the change programme that he was spearheading. Evans then took on his current role of corporate director of business change.

Evans was appointed vice president of Socitm in 2010 and is a former chair of Socitm Futures. He is also a member of the CIO Council, the Local CIO Council and the Local Government Delivery Council.

Evans has said he will focus on three things: increasing Socitm membership; helping public service IT professionals manage austerity; ensuring recognition and promotion of IT professionals.

Socitm also elected a new vice president at the AGM, Nadira Hussain from Tower Hamlets, who joins the existing vice presidents Kay Brown, head of ICT at South Lanarkshire Council, and Steve Halliday, head of ICT at Solihull Council.