Managing Director at Blue Ocean IQ
Reading, United Kingdom
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- Managing Director at Blue Ocean IQ
- Past
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- Business Development Director (Innovations Group) at Logica
- UK Country Manager at blueKiwi Software
- SharePoint Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft
- Education
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- Chartered Institute of Marketing
- University of Johannesburg
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Rob Gray’s Summary
12+ years in software industry in consulting and business roles. Founder / Owner of Blue Ocean IQ which is a business that provides services and advice around social networking, smarter working, innovation strategy, and the use of technology. Also worked as UK MD of blueKiwi Software and before that 4.5 years at Microsoft, working in the business intelligence group and in the business marketing organization as SharePoint product manager.
Early on in my career I worked as a business intelligence consultant and a solution architect for some of the UK's largest eCommerce sites.
Rob Gray’s Experience
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Managing Director
Blue Ocean IQ
(Management Consulting industry)
January 2009 — Present (7 months)
Founder of Blue Ocean IQ Ltd. We work with organizations of all sizes in order to increase their level of innovation, staff productivity and customer engagement. Some of the things that we offer include driving internal innovation initiatives, change management, smarter working, and the building of internal and external online communities.
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Business Development Director (Innovations Group)
Logica
(Public Company; LOG; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2009 — July 2009 (6 months)
Interim Business Development Director (consumer social networking propositions)
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UK Country Manager
blueKiwi Software
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
March 2008 — January 2009 (11 months)
UK Country Manager
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SharePoint Product Marketing Manager
Microsoft
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; msft; Computer Software industry)
December 2003 — February 2008 (4 years 3 months)
SharePoint Product Manager responsible for the SharePoint Products and Technologies business at Microsoft UK. Repsonsibilities include product solution strategy, competitive strategy, channel strategy, campaign planning and execution, press and analyst work as well as short &long term business execution.
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Solutions Architect
Attenda
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
November 2000 — December 2003 (3 years 2 months)
At Attenda I was responsible for the architecture and design of many of the UK's largest e-Commerce sites.
Customers of Attenda at that time included countless high profile sites like MFI.com, Debenhams.com, Bank of Ireland, World Rally Championship, BBC, Harrods.com, Reed Online etc. -
Consultant
Logical
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 1999 — October 2000 (1 year 5 months)
My previous position was at Vircom, which was acquired by Datatec and formed Logical which was Datatec's service division (in South Africa). I worked as a database consultant specialising in SQL Server technology. We pretty much owned the Microsoft Services market in South Africa, with pretty much every large organisation being customers of Datatec/Logical/Vircom.
I spent most of my time at Investment banks, retail banks and insurance organisations. I'd like to say that my job involved being called in to save the day, but unfortunately it was usually in the middle of the night :-) -
Technical Consultant
Vircom
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1997 — July 1999 (2 years 7 months)
Rob Gray’s Education
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Chartered Institute of Marketing
Postgrad , Marketing , 2005 — 2006
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University of Johannesburg
1995 — 1998
