31. Mike Faiers

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Senior Digital and IT Executive, BSH Home Appliances Limited

Unusually for a CIO, Faiers has told us that "IT doesn't exist any more."

That philosophy is the result of him being taken on to merge BSH's IT operations with its digital functions in 2012.

In that time he has successfully created a new eBusiness unit, and changed the way that IT interacts with the business.