80. Max Currie

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CIO, National Grid

National Grid is one of the world's largest utilities, focused on delivering electricity and gas to the UK and north eastern USA. CIO Max Currie has been in post since 2015.

A current area of focus for Currie's team is insourcing services and breaking up previous longstanding contracts with large systems integrators in a move towards more flexible software-defined architectures.

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