Stephen Howells

Stephen Howells is a seasoned development, technology, and programme manager with over twenty-five years of experience in various industries.

With a background as a software developer, architect, and project manager, Stephen is adept at leading and understanding engineers and suppliers effectively.

His senior management experience in international organizations equips him with a balanced and focused commercial outlook, enabling him to collaborate with board-level executives and excel in client-facing roles.

Stephen specializes in complex environments requiring stakeholder relationship management, agile adoption, solution architecture, software development, team building, on-time delivery, and results-oriented approaches.

He has a diverse experience encompassing Retail, Financial Services, Payments, Publishing, Not-For-Profit, Membership, Housing, Regulation, Psychometrics, Consultancy, Digital Advertising/Marketing, Higher Education, and Logistics.

Stephen holds a Certificate in Company Direction from the Institute of Directors, where he studied Company Law, Finance, Strategic Business Direction, Marketing Strategies, People, and Leading Change. He also has a B.Sc. (Hons) 2:1 in Computer Science from Coventry University.

Throughout his career, Stephen has held key roles in reputable organizations such as Sainsbury's as a Senior Engineering Manager, Argos as Software Development and Technology Manager, Royal Mail as Development and Transformation Programme Manager, University of the Arts London as Digital Development/Programme Director, and TBG Digital as Head of Software Development.

He has also served as CTO and Development Director at OPP, CIO and Development Director at The Guinness Partnership (Guinness Trust), Director at Moscow First Ltd, Associate Consultant at Tribal Group plc, Director of Programme Management and Technology at RICS, IT and Projects Director at Certegy Payment Services (Equifax and FIS).

Moreover, Stephen has expertise as a Technical Architect and EPOS Development Manager at Equifax Payment Services, Senior Developer at TRANSAX Merchant Services, and Oracle/Real-Time Software Engineer at Paradigm UK Ltd (Oracle Consultancy).