UK.gov deputy CIO quits Cabinet Office for EMC job
Bill McCluggage puts self into storage
Posted in Management, 9th November 2011 14:32 GMT
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Bill McCluggage, the government's deputy CIO, is the latest in a series of senior civil servants who have quit their posts at the Cabinet Office in favour of a private sector job.
He is leaving to take a job at storage giant EMC after having worked at the department since September 2009.
"I am sorry to leave the Cabinet Office team, but feel the time is right after successfully publishing a new strategy and implementation plan for government ICT," said McCluggage.
"This will ensure a modern, fit-for-purpose and cost effective ICT structure which supports public service delivery to a higher standard and gives value for money for the taxpayer,” he said.
At the end of 2010, the Cabinet Office's erstwhile CIO John Suffolk – who resigned from his £207,000 chief information officer post at the end of 2010 – re-emerged in August to announce that he was joining Chinese tech giant Huawei as its new global cyber-security head.
In April this year, the government's deputy director of the G-Cloud programme, Andrew Tait, quit in favour of a job at VMware. ®
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Bill McCluggage puts self into storage
Bill McCluggage on the rack
Bill McCluggage bags new position
Bill McCluggage makes case for storage
Cabinet Office lost McCLuggage
Poor man...
It's a complete coincidence that...
McLuggage has been involved in the Cabinet Office's Digital Identity Initiative.
EMC own RSA
RSA are big in digital identity.
There should be a year of 'Gardening Leave'
In all of these appointments - there is a real issue with both this and politicians moving into the private sector from the public and vice-versa.
It's been demonstrated all too often that the individuals involved err in their own favour when deciding on the ethics of these situations.
Conflict of interests
I haven't checked, but I am sure Mr McCluggage has never recommended EMC products to government, otherwise this job might be seen as a reward of some type. And I am sure it is not part of his new role to lobby or influence his old goverment colleagues, because it if were, that would be a clear example of a coorporation buying government influence, and "wholly innapproopriate" would then be the kindest description.
Ditto John Suffolk in his new role at Huawei. I haven't checked, but he probably speaks fluent Chinese, has an Engineering degree plus 30 years of top-notch security experience. Otherwise why would they hire him ?
New CIO says F/OSS should be concidered for Gov IT Projects
Deputy CIO resigns.
I wonder if the two are connected?
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