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Deloitte Tech FoundryLet’s make your ideas real
Introduction
Based in the heart of the Thames Valley, Reading – the hotspot of the UK’s growing tech industry.
The need to innovate and work in more agile ways has never been more important. Yet business leaders need help to find new directions to accelerate growth. The Deloitte Tech Foundry brings together big thinkers from Tech and Telco to help challenge convention and innovate new solutions that can be delivered quickly and successfully. There are not many places where Cyber Defence Experts rub shoulders with IP Lawyers or Strategy Architects, which is one reason why we’re able to re-evaluate the status quo, stimulate ideas and innovate new solutions quickly and successfully. Our Lab Zone has been created specifically to facilitate sessions to help businesses find the solutions they are looking for – and some they hadn’t even thought of. We have created a place where together we connect to build better answers to industry challenges, however big or small. we are passionate, think different and offer unrivalled knowledge.
As the head partner for the Tech Foundry, I have the pleasure of leading our most seasoned team of Tech and Telco specialists. As a member of the TMT exec team, I support some of our largest tech clients in both audit and advisory and focus on developing our next generation talent.
Throughout my career, I have worked in capital markets, M&A transactions and have extensive experience with many of the world’s leading tech companies. In the Tech Foundry our goal is for you to tap into our skills, experience and network, in order to innovate. Its how we help make your ideas real.
Deloitte Tech Foundry
Julian Rae / TMT Executive and Foundry lead
+44 7776 [email protected]
Helping you forge innovation
The Foundry is here to help you innovate in a hugely dynamic and exciting Tech and Telco market. We are a team of multiple disciplines that work together as one to solve your greatest challenges.
Read more about who we are and what we do best.
Let’s make your ideas real
Optimise the profitability of your innovations by
understanding and managing the tax implications and
pioneering tech solutions.
Helping you develop a robust control
environment, respond to complicated accounting
changes and providing assurance in a fluid and
fast-changing environment.
Identifying, financing, transacting and assuring growth
through acquisition to accelerate innovation.
Commercially protect your
innovations through the whole lifecycle.
Technically protect your innovations by
assessing and managing risks and protecting
against cyber threats.
Helping your business understand
and embrace new emerging technology
mega-trends such as 5G IoT, Cloud
and Digital.
Cyber: Prevent, Detect and Respond
Intellectual Property: Delivering tangible outcomes from intangible assets
Telco Advisory: What does 5G mean for Telcos?
M&A: Delivering value throughout the journey
Tax: Responding to a radically changing ecosystem
Legal: Technology driven solutions
Risk Advisory: How risk powers performance
Corporate Assurance: Simplifying transactions, accounting operations complex accounting
Audit: Delivering unique insights from a robust audit
Our facilities
Our labzone and workshops
Our broader purpose
Contents
The Foundry team is here to help you innovate
The Foundry Ethos
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As the digital world expands, new cyber opportunities and threats grow with it.
Our Cyber Strategy Consulting and Cyber Intelligence teams offer a complete suite of customisable cyber services and solutions to help tackle any threats throughout the whole process.
Our Cyber Intelligence Centre has specialists from many different backgrounds, ranging from the military and ex-intelligence officers to technology and university graduates.
Our 24/7 managed monitoring and protection services cover:
Cyber Threat Intelligence – who might attack and why?
Vulnerability Management – identifying and tackling new vulnerabilities daily.
Cyber Incident Response – helping damage limitation after a cyber-attack and getting back to business.
Threat Monitoring and Hunting – helping understand cyber threats and how to remain secure.
Information Protection – ensuring data is compliant with regulations and is kept safe and sound.
Intelligence-led Red-Teaming – will simulate a cyber-attack and work with you to improve strategies and processes afterwards.
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Cyber: Prevent, Detect and Respond
Carl Caddy / Chief Operating Officer, Cyber Intelligence [email protected]
Adam Way / Consultant, Cyber Intelligence [email protected]
“ I joined Deloitte in January 2018, as the Chief Operating Officer for cyber defence. Previously, I had spent 20 years working for the Government as a technical director for deployed engineering access and strategy in some high profile and sensitive areas. Before getting my degree in electronic engineering at Bristol University, I had spent eight years working in the British Army specialising in telecommunications.”
“ While I was working for a large IT company, providing support for Government contracts, I started to develop a real interest in cyber-security. After that, I gained a lot of experience as an Information Security Analyst for a major retailer. I joined in 2020, where my training made me the fully-fledged cyber-specialist I am today. I have enjoyed putting my retail experience into practice, as well as providing technology and cyber-security solutions for our clients.”
01 | Cyber: Prevent, Detect and Respond
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Intellectual Property: Delivering tangible outcomes from intangible assets
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In 2019, the IP consultancy, ClearViewIP, joined ranks with Deloitte. We help implement IP processes, build and strengthen IP portfolios, as well as improve implementing innovation.
We also offer clients specialist intellectual asset strategy along with IP transaction services, which all help to increase business value, reduce competitive risks and strengthen overall market positioning.
We help clients through the whole innovation life cycle in five key areas:
Discover & Asses – Helping clients to understand their IP position and risks in the context of their competitive landscape.
Strategise & Plan – Helping clients to formulate an IP Strategy that aligns with and supports their business goals.
Build & Manage – Helping clients to grow and optimise their IP portfolio with innovation planning, portfolio optimisation and strategic acquisitions.
Defend – Helping clients to manage IP risks and respond to live threats by ensuring they understand the current state of their industry and how to respond.
Leverage – Helping clients to maximise the value generated from their IP portfolio by providing strategic review of the IP risks and opportunities around a specific transaction, executing IP transactions, and performing IP value assessments.
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“ I founded ClearViewIP in 2007, after finding a gap in the professional services market and effective management and monetisation of intellectual assets. Over the past twelve years, we have grown the business from a small four-person team, into the 20-strong IP Advisory practice we have today. In 2019 we joined Deloitte, becoming Deloitte’s dedicated IP Advisory practice. Before starting ClearViewIP, I held several International R&D and business leadership positions in Data Storage and Networking industries. As VP of Engineering for Xyratex’s Network Storage Systems Division, I was responsible for all aspects of development for their Expansion Storage product line, delivering and supporting products for more than 50 of the world’s leading computer storage providers, while achieving revenues of over $500M.”
“ I am passionate about advising my clients on IP matters in a range of high-tech fields including mobile apps, audio/video streaming, telecoms, consumer electronics, mHealth/telehealth and medical devices. I also undertake a number of other consulting roles including developing patent mining strategies for acquisition, identifying licensing opportunities, IP due diligence, and IP valuation.”
Jon Calvert / Partner, IP [email protected]
Robin Walton / Tech IP Advisory [email protected]
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Telco Advisory: What does 5G mean for Telcos?
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Times are rapidly changing in the Telecom market. Our dedicated networks advisory team are here to help Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) make sense of these changes to gain strategic advantage. The new 5G technological capabilities will redefine business models and generate entirely new revenue streams for MNOs. At the same time, 5G will support in overcoming deep-rooted current challenges of declining yield curve and offer potential to transform network cost structures. We are here to tackle this change. Like previously experienced in the IT world, an open, cloud based network significantly increases competitiveness of MNOs, and will foster innovation. A cloud based network enables the software-defined infrastructure (with the use of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) servers or white-boxes) to deploy network functionalities, thus:
Reduce Total Cost Ownership (TCO) – more balanced control between Capital Expenditures (CAPEX) and Operating Expenses (OPEX) investments, as cloud based functions can be deployed dynamically according to needs.
Improve Time-to-Market – Reduced cost of deploying a new SW version or feature, allowing MNOs to test and innovate at a lower risk. DevOps, continuous integration and development become a reality.
Optimise operational efficiency – Automating the provisioning and full lifecycle management (scaling, healing, and upgrades) of the services, will allow the spectrum to be used more efficiently; capacity can be managed on demand providing the necessary agility and cost savings needed for new services.
Enable ’Plug and play’ – Removing proprietary solutions and single-vendor constraints will allow new market entrants – typically best in class – to provide revolutionary solutions to specific areas of the network. The success of this environment will depend on vendor collaboration and a strong ecosystem.
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“ I lead Cloud Consulting in the TMT sector working with my clients to modernise and simplify their technology estates. I am passionate about transforming existing IT environments into more agile, cost effective and business-focused capabilities. I advise my telecoms and enterprise clients on the use of Software Defined Networking and the modernisation of fixed and mobile underlays that support it.”
“ I lead our Telco connectivity offering and our industry alliance with Telecom Infra Project (TIP) and Next Generation Mobile Network (NGMN). I have worked extensively with Telco companies on addressing the challenges arising out of network transition to an all-digital world; over 14 years of experience in delivering large scale network transformation programmes within mobile networks.”
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David Green / Telecoms Strategy and Architecture [email protected]
Shashi Bhagavathula / Telecoms Connectivity Lead [email protected]
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M&A: Delivering value throughout the journey
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Recently, there has been a lot of M&A activity in the Tech and Telco industries, from VC investment in start-ups to billion-dollar mergers.
These industries demonstrate high levels of resilience, recurring or contracted revenue and cash generation that make them attractive targets for strategic and financial investors alike. As well as conventional M&A, our teams can support clients in refinancings and IPOs, and can advise on restructuring from insolvency proceedings through to divestment options, CVAs, and fast track M&A processes to maximise value and minimise losses.
We provide M&A support end-to-end with the view of making transactions as efficient as possible, including:
Developing a strategy and target list – identifying acquisition targets in existing/new/adjacent sectors or services and negotiating and agreeing on terms with vendors.
Optimising business performance – helping set the target operating model, optimise working capital, streamline costs and mitigate value leakage through perceived tech debt.
Preparing for transactions – compiling business plans, supporting any change in management reporting on the right KPIs for the investor. Leveraging technology to collate, review and redact documentation ready for upload to a data room.
Tax and incentivisation planning – working alongside our tax colleagues, supporting all aspects of a proposed transaction – including tax risks, management incentivisation, equity participation and shareholder planning.
Executing transactions – efficiently implementing changes by deploying the scale and capability of Deloitte, enabling management teams to focus on their business.
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“ I lead our UK Financial Advisory TMT team and Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 programme. My team supports Technology clients on M&A, IPOs, refinancings and restructurings, valuations, forensic investigations and more. We help clients execute transactions internationally, and work with a wide range of clients, from VC startups and Private Equity investors / their portfolio companies to global technology groups. As part of our work we are able to leverage the full breadth of Deloitte’s capability to help our clients in their decision making. I also lead our Technology Fast 50 programme in the UK, which runs annually and identifies the 50 fastest growing UK technology companies. Through the programme, we get the opportunity to engage with founders and companies at the leading edge in their fields, many of whom go on to become `Unicorns’ in the years that follow.”
“ We recognise that successful tech and telecoms businesses are the results of a significant investment of time and resources, both emotional and financial. I work with clients to explore how entrepreneurs, owner-managers and corporates can recognise and make the most of this investment. Being part of The Tech Foundry team, I also facilitate and support discussions around M&A and allow business owners and leaders to share their views and experiences in a safe, collaborative environment.”
04 | M&A: Supporting end-to-end
Duncan Down / Financial Advisory Partner and Deloitte Tech Fast 50 [email protected]
Mark Kennedy / Tech and Telco M&[email protected]
50 Technology Fast 502020 UK
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Tax: Responding to a radically changing ecosystem
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Tax systems around the world were developed in an age where almost everything was paper-based, but with the rise of technology, tax systems are too being disrupted.
Governments are introducing radical new measures to adapt to these changes and incentivise innovation in the virtual world.
We offer innovative tech solutions and advice on all these latest tax developments. And because our teams love to work with what fascinates them, we have gathered a wealth of experience across all areas of Tech and Telco, including:
Online marketplace tax reform – which has exponential growth to manage on an international scale, as well as Digital Service Tax “DST” which is a real cost for a business.
Identify and discover valuable IP through the whole innovation lifecycle – working with our IP advisory team to help identify business value, implement robust transfer pricing models, improve VAT recoverability, patent box and R&D claims.
Pioneering Technology R&D tools – Our proprietary platform is used to help prepare R&D claims and capture R&D in real time.
Cashback for IT transformation –identifying R&D opportunities from digital transformation implementations.
Current booming sectors – Understanding tax implications for blockchain, biotech, 5G, and AI and potential Grant opportunities. Involvement in crucial consultations such as HMRC’s R&D relief on data & cloud computing costs.
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“ I am the Global International Tax Leader for Deloitte and the fact that I hold this role and work from Reading is no accident! For over 20 years, I have enjoyed advising the world’s largest technology businesses on their international tax affairs – many of these businesses are in the Thames Valley. My work takes me all over the world, but Reading is my home and where I celebrate the successes of my team.”
“ I have focused on the Tech and Telco sector over the last ten years. The most frequent areas that I tend to support my clients with include, transformational events, such as Initial Public Offerings (NASDAQ, FTSE, and other international exchanges), transaction preparation and readiness, due diligence, acquisition and post-acquisition structuring and business integration. This also includes assisting groups through rapid organisation and regulatory change, so they can identify and navigate potential pitfalls while aligning their tax strategies to their business models.”
“ I was born and brought up in Delhi, India. I came to the UK in 2010 and I started working as the most junior member of the team for one of our major telco clients. Today, I lead the account, which involves spending two days a week onsite – which I love doing. I manage the preparation and submission of all of their VAT returns in Latin America. In addition to this, whenever the client needs VAT advice globally, I make sure they receive all the help that they need.”
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Lisa Stott / Global International Tax [email protected]
Athira Vijayakumar / VAT specialist [email protected]
Mike Thorne / Tech and Telco Transactions Tax Lead [email protected]
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Legal: Technology driven solutions
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Technology is transforming the nature of legal work. There is a constant drive for organisations and their in-house legal teams to do ‘more for less’ and clients face the dual complexities of a heightened regulatory environment and an increasingly globalised business landscape.
We advise and implement technology in both a law firm and corporate legal department contexts. We help clients use it to develop new legal solutions, deliver legal services via new tech-enabled offerings, as well as using technology to optimise their operations with our newly expanded Legal Advisory, Legal Management Consulting and Legal Managed Services teams.
We are part of the Deloitte Legal and Conception X Industry Challenges team that empowers students from leading PhD programmes to explore and create tech solutions to the unknown legal problems of tomorrow.
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“ I joined the team in Reading in February 2019, as one of the first members of the newly formed Deloitte Legal UK team. I liked the idea of doing things differently and being part of a legal team where technology played an integral part of our offering, whatever the stage in an organisation journey. Before this, I worked in the corporate practice of an international law firm and as in-house business counsel for an FTSE 100 company. I enjoy working collaboratively, assessing client requirements and proposing solutions to project teams in a straightforward, commercial manner, working closely with our IP, Tax and M&A colleagues to deliver true end-to-end solutions to our clients.”
“ I was appointed CTO last year. With tech, at the heart of the strategy of Deloitte Legal, I am responsible for technologically enabling and optimising their legal service delivery. I am also the tech-lead for their legal operations consulting team. Previously, I led legal operations and a process optimisation consulting team at a major international law firm; where I advised clients across multiple sectors with their legal tech strategies, process optimisation, solution design, product selection and implementation. I was also the head of strategic technology at the same law firm and was responsible for implementing technologies, including artificial intelligence, automation, workflow and data analytics.”
Helen Porter / Deloitte Legal UK [email protected]
Bruce Braude / Chief Technology Officer, Deloitte Legal UK [email protected]
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Risk Advisory: How risk powers performance
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In a constantly changing, complex environment, our team is trusted by organisations across the globe to help manage and respond to strategic, financial, operational, technological, third party, and regulatory risks that help enhance business performance.
As we look ahead to the recovery phase of the pandemic, we are working with our clients to reimagine Risk and Resilience responding and to adapt to the changing external environment. For many technology leaders, their first steps are informed, by the necessary series of adjustments they enacted as the crisis erupted. And as things stabilise, eyes will be on the future competitive landscape in the new normal. We help them through the cycle from:
Setting strategy – knowing which risks to take and which risks to avoid is crucial. We help organisations reimagine risk to uncover new strategic opportunities.Identifying, defining, quantifying, monitor and responding to risk – working with our leading-edge tools and capabilities, discover, interpret, and prepare for risks that have the potential to impact your organisation’s business strategy.
Designing and implementing control frameworks – a standardised and integrated control framework will proactively manage and monitor your organisation’s key financial, operational and compliance risks.Managing processes and remediating problems – utilising our latest frameworks and methodologies our teams help organisations improve process efficiency, operational quality and regulatory compliance.Build resilience – we help organisation’s reduce the likelihood and impact of disruption to business through planning and preparing for a diverse set of strategic, operational and technology risks.Assurance – we provide specialised audit analytics and internal control services including reviews of financial statements and reporting on internal controls, and other attest services related to financial reporting.
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“ I am a Manager in Deloitte’s Strategic, Regulatory and Operational Risk practice, with a specific focus on Operational Risk. I have nearly five years of experience in internal audit, compliance and assurance engagements. I have managed and delivered multiple projects in industries and sectors including Water and Utilities, Healthcare, Government Support Services, House building and Science and Technology. I enjoy working with clients to deliver high quality, focused and value-added insight to drive change and enhance the risk management process.”
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“ I am a Director in Deloitte’s Strategic, Regulatory and Operational Risk practice. I help tech companies in the region solve their most complex risk challenges drawing in expertise where appropriate across our Risk Advisory practice to deliver a differential service. I love to collaborate with clients bringing together a fusion of risk expertise and technology enablement that delivers innovations that deliver sustainable change. I am a founder member of our Tech Foundry.”
Neil Lawrence / Tech Strategic Regulatory & Operational [email protected]
Madhura Kanade / Tech Strategic Regulatory & [email protected]
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Corporate Assurance: Simplifying transactions, accounting operations and complex accounting
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The Tech and Telco sector is a fast-paced industry, where we can help our clients create disruptive products, raise funds on the capital markets – particularly in the US – as well as trade sales and other life cycle events.
Through the Foundry, we can implement a multi-disciplinary service model for companies, whatever their stage of growth.
Tech businesses, particularly new and fast growing organisations, face constant and complex challenges with comparatively small finance teams, whose focus is very often on the commercial aspects of their business.
Corporate Assurance services can be of real benefit to finance leaders in these organisations: providing specialists teams with deep expertise in complex accounting, embedding and improving financial reporting controls, data analytics and M&A transactions.
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“ I specialise in Accounting Advisory work and spend about half my time working on transactional projects such as corporate M&A, restructuring and refinancing, and the other half of my time, assisting finance teams in navigating complex accounting situations. My M&A work involves understanding and benchmarking the accounting policies of target businesses; in the technology sector, accounting policies in areas such as revenue and R&D can be highly judgemental and can differ significantly depending on the applied accounting framework.”
“ I have extensive experience and enjoy working alongside global organisations in the Tech and Telco sector, primarily those subject to SEC/PCAOB regulations. My audit clients include DXC Technology, Nokia, & Spirent plc. I also lead the Accounting Advisory group in the Tech Foundry and support non-audit clients implement and improve processes and controls as part of Deloitte’s Transaction and Controls team. My advisory clients include both listed and fast growing private Technology companies. For non-audit clients, I work with technology companies to provide solutions for complex accounting and reporting services under IFRS, US GAAP and UK GAAP. My particular areas of focus are the accounting for Revenue and Intangibles.”
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“ I have worked with clients throughout the Thames Valley and London over the last 13 years, in both an audit and advisory capacity. This includes assisting clients with complex projects including, acquisitions, disposals, demergers, IPO, and debt rises. I enjoy investing time working with management to support the delivery of these projects. I have helped my clients prepare for transactions by supporting management with the preparation of information or in a reporting accountant role. I have also assisted companies in their run-up to and through to IPO, helping them assess their readiness and timelines to ensure a successful IPO.”
Sarah Buchanan / Transactions [email protected]
Stephen Maloney / Corporate Assurance [email protected]
Chris Dolby / Accounting Advisory Lead [email protected]
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Audit: Delivering unique insights from a robust audit
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The audit profession has seen drastic changes in recent years. The increased activity within the Tech and Telco has created more challenges for finance teams, executives and investors to adapt to.
The Tech Foundry is the home for our most seasoned industry experts, whose knowledge and experience across Tech and Telco enable them to deeply understand the most complex organisation. We use data analytics and cloud technology to generate meaningful insights on the key challenges and questions your business faces.
This combination of experience and technology allows us to deliver the highest-quality and most dynamic audits, with our risk-based approach giving confidence to stakeholders and investors. Our insights give you the depth of understanding you need to keep your organisation on the right track and prepared for the future.
Our focus on Tech and Telco clients means we have a deep appreciation for the standards, problems and developments across the industry, and the capability to give you a deeper understanding of your business and its environment.
We are proud of our exciting portfolio, which covers world-leading Tech and Telco giants, FTSE 350 and US listed international groups, as well as high-growth and private-equity-backed businesses.
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“ I have been working with the Foundry since its inception. In Tech Audit, we already have an exciting portfolio, spanning fast growing Biotech start-ups to global, worldleading Tech giants with genuine international reach. My background was in research in the Physical sciences, obtaining a PhD before joining Deloitte, so I am delighted to have brought the cutting-edge, hi-tech world back into my professional focus. I count myself lucky to be working with leaders in the Tech and Biotech industry, such as Microsoft, GoDaddy, Datatec, and Oxford Nanopore Technologies. In terms of audit delivery, the Foundry gives us a unique platform, bringing together specialist expertise to perform our work to the highest quality standards.”
“ I have worked for 13 years with Tech and Telco groups and companies, with significant experience in Africa, including Liquid Telecoms, Helios Towers PLC and Datatec, to name a few. I focus on supporting growing businesses and have extensive experience working with established companies in the process of undertaking a capital market transaction, either equity or debt raise. Over the years, I have delivered advisory projects such as exit readiness, bond issues, financial data due diligence, IPOs and completion accounts. I have also completed several client secondments, working on group restructuring and reporting ahead of an IPO and therefore truly understand what it is like to be in my client’s shoes.”
“ As leader of our UK TMT Audit and Assurance practice and member of the UK TMT Executive, the Deloitte Tech Foundry has been an exciting opportunity for me to collaborate even more closely with my clients and bring our deep TMT industry expertise and experience from across the firm. I have over 22 years’ experience in the TMT sector (20 years in London) and have gained a wide range of audit and advisory experience including leading the audits of FTSE 350 and US listed international Groups, as well as high growth and private equity backed businesses. I have supported my clients through their audits, public company reporting, complex transactions, re-organisations and finance transformation projects across many jurisdictions including the USA, the Middle East, China, India, Europe, and Japan.”
Antwi Okyere-Darko / Telecoms Audit and Equity Capital Markets [email protected]
Mark Tolley / Partner, Audit and [email protected]
Gavin Waters / Technology [email protected]
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About us
Our facilitiesWe are only a 5 minute walk from Reading station, so if you want a desk to work from for the week, a day or even just a few hours, we will be happy to provide you with one. Our Lab Zone hosts hundreds of client workshops every year – equipped with cutting edge technologies that enable us to deliver interactive strategy meetings for client teams or personalised transition labs for individuals.
We have project rooms in our Work Zone that clients regularly book when they want access to offsite meeting facilities. Some clients have booked out project rooms for weeks, or even months, for a dedicated space to work on a big programme. Also, our Tech Foundry has a co-working space where clients can work together with us.
We also have a breakout area – the Play Zone, where we collect and display the latest consumer electronics for all to explore.
Virtual is here for the long term and increasingly, likely to be a blended approach to physical and digital work, meetings and events. As we continue to adapt to working remotely, the Foundry has been able to run a number of events, and is scaling up to deliver even more online, including our new Tech Foundry Live sessions.
If you’d like to register your interest, please click here.
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About us
Our labs and workshopsOur Lab Zone is a single space kitted out with cutting edge technology for facilitating Accelerator style sessions with our Tech and Telco clients. These are interactive sessions which challenge convention, stimulate ideas and innovate new solutions. Below are some examples of labs we can run for you and your teams:
• Full and half-day transition labs for senior executives who are new to their roles
• Cyber strategy labs including hosting management team tours of our Cyber Intelligence Centre
• Digital finance function transformation labs that use the latest technology to automate the finance department
• 5G imagination labs where we reimagine the 5G landscape with you
• Leadership events and virtual sessions providing insight into current and forward-looking perspectives on hot topics to promote industry learning and build connections.
This style of collaboration has changed the way we solve client challenges.
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About us
Our broader purposeWhilst we are here to support the Tech and Telco community, we recognise that our business has an important role in the communities in which we live and work and it is essential we make a broader, positive impact on society. Here are some examples of how we achieve this.
Over last year, our Reading office created over 100 new jobs for graduates and school-leavers that truly reflect equality and diversity among those we hire.We are proud to support the Reading Refugee Support Group – a fantastic charity that has supported refugees that settle in Reading for 25 years. We raise funds and support RRSG who visited the Tech Foundry to tell our entire Reading office about their work. At the opening of the Tech Foundry in 2019, Margot James MP, Minister for Digital and the Creative Industries, stopped by to officially open the centre. Margot James MP was joined at the centre by students from John Majejski Academy, who spent the afternoon learning about career opportunities at the firm before taking part in a Q&A session with the Minister.
We also support the John Madejski Academy by donating laptops, running mentoring sessions for students, contributing funding for the Reading Rockets basketball team. The Tech Foundry’s been involved with 3D printing technologies and the ‘Helping Hands’ project, which used 3D printers to build a prosthetic hand. The team behind the Helping Hands project were one of the winners of the firm’s impact awards, they set out about trying to design a prosthetic that children were proud to wear.
Jenny, one of the young people who have benefited from the project, visited the Tech Foundry with her mother Helen when it opened for a sneak peek at what else technologies can do.
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About us
If you would like to get in touch with one of the team, please email [email protected] and one of our team will get back to you.
You can check out our LinkedIn page and become a member so you can keep up to date with the latest Tech Foundry news, events and insights.
If you would like to see more information, please visit our web page www.deloitte.co.uk/techfoundry
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