Claire Hamon

Part of the IT Leaders 100 - a list of the most influential IT leaders in the UK in 2025.

Claire Hamon is Chief Information Officer at Babcock International, where she is leading a wide-ranging digital transformation to modernise the defence and engineering giant’s IT landscape.

Since joining Babcock in 2023, Claire has focused on unlocking business value through strategic technology change, from building future-ready platforms to strengthening cybersecurity and data capabilities across critical operations.

She is reshaping the technology function to improve agility, drive innovation, and support the organisation’s mission to deliver vital services for defence and national security.

A commercially minded board-level leader, Claire brings a track record of delivering complex IT transformations in regulated and disrupted sectors.