Damien Turner - Group Head of IT, Holiday Extras

Turner is committed to transforming IT away from being the 'Department of No'. A crucial part of that was moving Holiday Extras to the public cloud, in the form of AWS, which massively increased the firm's agility and was instrumental in a shift to DevOps.
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