Playback: Business resilience in Times of Change with Dayne Turbitt & William McLeod Scott

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WeAreVirtual: Business resilience in Times of Change with Dayne Turbitt & William McLeod Scott

Facilitated by Julia Streets. Recorded live 13 May 2020

Join us for an enlightening conversation between two distinguished leaders from Dell Technologies and Deloitte to hear how their organisations are navigating these turbulent times.

Organisational, technology and cyber resilience are all being put to the test right now. There is no predefined response plan but behaviours that focus on building resilience, demonstrating agility and leading with empathy are the qualities that will help us all respond effectively. Dayne and William will share their insights on how companies and their partners are responding to these challenges.

About Dayne

Dayne Turbitt talks about business reslienceDayne is the SVP & GM for Dell Technologies in the UK and its unified Sales and Partner organisation, leading the organisations work to help customers transform their businesses for the next decade. He is a strong believer in the power of technology to deliver for the benefit of society and is a champion for Dell Technologies in its pioneering sustainable and innovative technology solutions to further human progress.

Dayne campaigns to inspire young people to study and work in STEM as well as championing diversity and inclusion programmes across Dell Technologies in the UK. He is a board member of The Prince’s Trust and leads Dell Technologies work with the charity, providing mentoring, internships and seed investment to ensure talented young people can access the right opportunities.

He is also committed to stimulating entrepreneurship and leads a number of strategic partnerships with start-up accelerators across the UK focussed on helping entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses.

Dayne joined Dell Technologies in 2010, previously serving as Vice President of Global Accounts and as Vice President of Dell EMC’s Emerging Technology Division, where he was involved in helping partners and businesses in different industries to restructure their teams and take advantage of new technologies.

Originally from South Africa, his previous experience includes a number of international leadership roles focused on delivering value for customers through technology.


About William

william-mcleod-scott  talks about business reslienceWilliam is a Financial Services Partner with over 25 years’ experience working primarily with retail and investment banks, insurance businesses, financial market infrastructure businesses and with FS regulators MAS, FDIC, FED, PRA and the FCA. This includes 10 years of direct experience working in Global Markets for three global banks. He leads Deloitte’s Cyber Resilient Practice incorporating Technology Resilience, Cyber Incident Response, and Cyber War gaming. He has a broad background in Financial Services having led multiple Structural Reform projects specifically in Recovery and Resolution (RRP) for four global banks in the UK and US across a range of areas from Board Governance to Operational Resilience. William’s experience includes leading response to cyber-attack, post incident reviews and cyber contingency planning to enable businesses build capability and technology solutions to recover from ransomware attack.


About Julia

Julia Streets | CEO, Streets ConsultingJulia Streets is a champion of fintech entrepreneurship, innovation and diversity.

In 2007,  Julia founded Streets Consulting, the business development, marketing and communications consultancy.  She helped launch the Chi-X brand of international alternative stock exchanges, including Chi-X Australia.  Since then she and her team have advised a wide range of firms in the world of capital markets, B2B and payments, and offering specialist technology including blockchain, artificial intelligence, cyber and more.

Prior to founding Streets Consulting in 2008, Julia was global head of communications at NYSE Technologies, serving on the Executive Committee and European head of marketing and sales development at Instinet.

Wary that diversity and inclusion is fast becoming the latest corporate marketing jargon (a bit like ‘innovation is in our DNA’), last year Julia launched a podcast series ‘DiverCity Podcast’.  On each episode, industry luminaries shine a light on progress, call out areas requiring further focus and offer insights and best practice to help listeners drive change. (www.divercitypodcast.com // @DiverCitypod)

Brummell Magazine, known as the ‘City’s little black book’, has recognised Julia a number of times— last year as one of their 30 Inspirational Women Influencers, in 2014 as one of 30 Inspirational Women Entrepreneurs and in 2013, one of 30 Inspirational Women on Boards.  She is one of SWIFT’s Global Power Women in FinTech and been listed in Innovate Finance’s Women in FinTech Power List for the past three years. This year she was a finalist in the Variety charity’s ‘Catherine’ UK-wide awards, celebrating inspiring women in business and philanthropy.

Julia is the author of ‘The Lingua Franca of the Corporate Banker’,  lampooning corporate jargon. She is called upon to host and MC many public events, is an after-dinner speaker, and stand-up comedian.

Julia is proud to serve as a trustee of the charity ‘Street Child’ and is a Fellow of the British American Project, the transatlantic leadership fellowship.

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