Our leadership team

Fernando Apezteguia

Chief Executive Officer

After joining NTT DATA in 2000, Fernando established a strong reputation for consultancy in the financial sector, working on numerous strategic banking projects for the Santander Group in Spain, Germany, Chile, Brazil and the UK. He then went on to become the Global Head of Banking for NTT DATA, overseeing the banking practice across Europe, Latin America and the US, before becoming CEO of NTT DATA in Brazil. During which, he led the successful integration process between Everis and NTT DATA Brazil. In June 2021 Fernando joined NTT DATA UK&I to lead a similar integration and is now heading our organisation as the CEO.

Andy Nelson

Head of Banking and Financial Markets

As the previous leader of CGI's Banking and Financial Markets business in the UK and Ireland, Andy is fully accountable for all aspects of the business including growth, service delivery and management of the overall P&L.​ He is a specialist in the management of strategic accounts and the delivery of complex transformation programmes, large outsourcing contracts and professional consulting teams. Experienced in turning around under-performing businesses with a track record of growth and improved client satisfaction. ​

Cesar Zayas

Head of Digital Strategy & Technology and Head of Application & Infrastructure Services

Cesar is a Senior IT Executive with more than 20 years of experience in growing and managing IT consulting and services teams focused on advanced technology, digital transformation and innovation. He combines in-depth IT technology landscape understanding with foresight and strategic vision to understand companies' challenges and proffer solutions. Cesar has a proven track record of helping large-scale organisations across all industry verticals respond to their business challenges, leveraging state-of-the-art technologies, while applying pragmatic innovation.

David Brooks

Head of Insurance

Dave leads the Insurance Sector at NTT DATA UK&I and is focused on elevating our brand to help us become a relevant player in the UK market - the largest in our EMEAL region. Dave is an experienced business/sales leader with a 30+ year track record in growing businesses through organic and inorganic means and has focussed primarily on the insurance sector for the past 15 years. He also has a strong track record of developing and closing complex consulting and outsourcing deals. More recently, he was the European Business Leader for the insurance practice at Genpact where he was instrumental in creating and building his team to deliver significant sustainable profitable growth for the region.

Denzil Pudota

Chief Delivery Officer/Head of Managed Services & Cloud

Denzil has worked in the IT industry for over 23 years, bringing a wealth of senior delivery experience with him to the IT services provider. On joining NTT DATA UK&I, he built the Cloud Practice and API & Integration Practice for NTT DATA as part of the rapid expansion of the Birmingham Delivery Centre which he continues to manage. Prior to joining NTT DATA UK&I, he has held various roles in the Public Sector, heading up delivery for the HMRC account at Capgemini where he was also instrumental in setting up a product offering for an Integration Platform As A Service (i-PaaS).

Evelyn Healy

Vice President, Human Resources

Evelyn has vast experience leading HR teams within the technology and communications industry, to enable companies to scale growth. Prior to joining NTT DATA UK&I, she was Global HR Director at WPP, with the responsibility of aligning the subsidiary HR functions across WPP and into the Holding company. Before that, she was HR Director of ESPN EMEA, responsible for developing and leading the HR strategy to support the business agenda. This included organisational structure in line with business changes; talent and succession planning, including implementing development plans to build leadership capability; and aligning the reward philosophy with the business’s needs.

Adam Dearnley

Finance Director

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Javier Navas

Hospitality, Tourism, Leisure, Retail, CPG Sectors

Javier has both a BSc and MSc in Computer Science and has been working in consulting since 2005. He experience draws on the previous opportunity to run multiple business and IT transformation programmes for some of the world’s biggest known companies across multiple business sectors, including Consumer Goods, Travel, Retail, Automotive, Manufacturing, etc, managing diverse multi-national teams.

Nick Smith

Head of Manufacturing, Automotive and Life Sciences

Nick leads the Manufacturing, Automotive and Life Sciences Sector at NTT DATA UK&I. He is a business and sales leader with over 30 years of experience in the IT and Consulting arena. An engineer by trade, Nick specialises in growing teams and businesses in a multitude of sectors. He likes to build, solve problems and make a difference, taking a direct approach to getting things done.

Roei Haberman

Chief Revenue Officer and Head of Telco, Media and Technology

Roei is responsible for growing NTT our engagement in the TMT industry, as well as helping the business to evolve its long-term client relationships and increase our market leadership, by bringing innovation and the NTT DATA UK&I value proposition to the wider market. He has worked in the TMT sector for over 20 years, bringing a wealth of executive experience to IT services. He was previously regional vice president at Amdocs and brings expertise on the fundamentals of creating a digital business. While at Amdocs, he helped to grow and build its business, by spearheading a host of successful transformational programmes for global clients.

Simon Reid

Head of Energy and Utilities Sector | Head of Mergers and Acquisitions

As head of our Energy and Utilities business, Simon bring with him a wealth of experience in providing business and technology consulting services within energy and commodities sectors. He is skilled in leveraging disruptive technologies to maximise business value to clients, including robotics, blockchain, AI and business analytics, IOT and digital channels.

Stuart Daley

Chief Operating Officer

He joined the firm in 2018 as the Commercial Director and was responsible for building the commercial, procurement and data protection teams. Stuart has worked in technology and IT businesses and across various industry sectors globally over the last 24 years. Prior to joining NTT DATA UK&I, he worked at BAE Systems, Detica and Siemens. His career to date has spanned Software Engineering, Project Management, Product Management, Sales & Marketing, Operations Management, Commercial Management and Operations.

Tim Bardell

Head of Consulting

Tim leads the design, technology, data, security and business consultancy practices, guiding client organisations through transformation and change to deliver business value. He has many years of experience in the telecoms and technology industries, leading IT delivery and major programmes as a consultant and in various senior industry roles. Tim is driven by the opportunity to make lasting change happen for clients, their teams and their customers. As such, he believes that putting people at the heart of business transformation is the key to success. He has demonstrated this through his leadership of large-scale customer management implementations, customer and employee experience projects, salesforce automation delivery and cost reduction activities. A huge advocate for fairness, equality and opportunity for all; Tim is an active member of NTT DATA Diversity & Inclusion activities and is proud to be the executive sponsor of the LGBT+ and Allies Network.

Vicki Chauhan

Head of Public Sector

Vicki has worked in the Public Sector for over 25 years, across the Consulting, Systems Integration and Managed Services domains. As Head of Public Sector at NTT DATA UK&I, Vicki is responsible for our Central Government, Healthcare, Public Safety & National Infrastructure business. She is passionate about working with Public Sector organisations to deliver programmes and services that make a tangible difference in the lives of UK citizens and improving the ability of civil servants to do their jobs.

Tom Winstanley

Chief Technology Officer/Head, Research & Development and New Ventures

With over 20 years of consulting and programme delivery experience on the interface between business, customer experience and technology, Tom has twice been a founding member of a digital business division within multinational organisations, scaling them to radically change the way it delivered services. Tom has worked with B2B clients in a wide range of industries from telecommunications and media to financial services and the public sector across Europe, APAC and North America.