Meet Bill Mew

Bill is a leading tech industry speaker, thought leader, campaigner and influencer. He is focused on making a real difference for the cloud sector in the UK. He’s not just a strategist though, he makes things happen.

Previously a global leader for the world’s top fintech firm (a $26Bn division of IBM) and currently a strategist for the UK’s top govtech firm (UKCloud), Bill is a prolific blogger and speaker on a variety of issues such as privacy, cloud, govtech and OpenStack. He is also one of the world’s top social media influencers on these topics, and offers strategic advice on competitive differentiation and also on content and influencer marketing.

Campaigner for Open Cloud

Bill is one of the top global advocates for Open Cloud, and OpenStack in particular, focusing on ensuring that customers have a choice and that they won’t be locked in to proprietary vendor cloud technology stacks. How has Bill made a real difference in 2017 and into 2018?

Campaigner for Privacy

With the imminent arrival of GDPR. Privacy is a major focus for companies of all kinds, not least of which are the cloud firms that will act as data processors. Bill is a massive advocate for privacy and a focus on ethics, responsibility and trust rather than on the fear and fines that have been the focus of much GDPR debate. How has Bill made a real difference in 2017 and into 2018?

Campaigner for Cloud use in the UK Public Sector and the important role that SMEs have to play

UKCloud has played a pivotal role over the last few years in supporting the UK government’s digital transformation agenda, and helping the UK public sector reach the point where last year it was recognised by the United Nations as the number one e-Government in the world. Bill has also championed the SME agenda and the role that G-Cloud should have in ensuring that there is a level playing field for local UK cloud players to compete on equal terms. He frequently campaigns to hold the government to account in terms of progress on both the digital transformation agenda and SME agenda. How has Bill made a real difference in 2017 and into 2018?

Campaigner for Multi-Cloud

Bill is also a leading advocate for multi-cloud, focusing on the fact that most public cloud environments are great for new applications and workloads, but that the main headache for most customers is what to do with their existing and legacy applications. Most large organisations have a heterogenous technology estate with Oracle workloads, Microsoft ones and other virtualized workloads as well. No one cloud is best for all of these and Bill advocates a pragmatic, multicloud approach. How has Bill made a real difference in 2017 and into 2018?

Officer and Leader

I started my career as a Weapons Engineering Officer in Her Majesty's Royal Navy
January 1987

Communications Consultant

I was one of the first members of staff at Firefly Communications - helping it to grow and win many top accounts and awards - including twice being voted the UK’s top hi-tech agency by tech journalists.
November 1992

On the Prime Minister's Team

I was a PR Officer on John Major’s personal campaign team during the 1997 election campaign in the UK
May 1997

Strategic Advisor

Started a 16 year career at IBM, holding a series of pan-European and global communications roles
June 1999

Top Fintech Strategist

Became the first and only global sector communications leader at IBM to be based outside the USA, leading IBM’s $26bn finance sector business throughout the global financial crisis
November 2006

Cloud Analyst and Consultant

Providing strategic guidance on creating competitive differentiation, value networks and brand value in the cloud era
February 2015

Cloud Strategist

Acted as an evangelist and strategist for the top cloud firm in the UK and fastest growing technology firm
November 2016

Proof Points and Testimonials

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Bill Mew moves up to second on the NodeXL list of top 10 global Govtech influencers
In the October 2018 Govtech analysis by NodeXL (part of the Social Media Research Foundation) Bill Mew rose to...
NodeXL Project
Part of the Social Media Research Foundation
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NodeXL lists Bill Mew as one of the top 10 global Govtech influencers
In its June 2018 analysis of Govtech, NodeXL (part of the Social Media Research Foundation) listed Bill Mew as...
NodeXL Project
Part of the Social Media Research Foundation
Onalytica
Testimonial: Onalytica, Influencer Analytics
Onalytica, the top firm for influencer analytics, profiles Bill Mew as the top global influencer on Privacy, Cloud Computing,...
Onalytica
Global Influencer Analytics
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Testimonial: Donald Callahan
In the fast moving world of Tech, Bill Mew is both a world class influencer and a top notch...
Donald Callaghan
Analyst - Cloud, compliance, continuity, security - Duquesne Group & Duquesne Advisory
DezB
Testimonial: Dez Blanchfield
When Bill Mew speaks, I listen.. and usually take notes. Dez Blanchfield (@Dez_Blanchfield)
Dez Blanchfield
Strategist and Futurist Extraordinaire
IanMoyse
Testimonial: Ian Moyse
Bill is well known, respected and sought after in the cloud community. From a social influence, blogging, speaker...
Ian Moyse
Board Member FAST, Cloud Industry Forum, Eurocloud

MY CAPABILITIES

“90% of all content marketing gets NO reaction. That’s massive wasted effort and opportunity cost” - DON'T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE

We are in a new era in which old marketing techniques are providing diminishing returns and a set of new disciplines are taking hold.

  • Content Marketing requires great expertise and communications, typically in the form of writing skills to create blogs, papers and articles and presentation skill to convey insights remotely via audio or video or in person via coaching and keynote delivery.
  • Influencer Marketing requires great reach to maximise amplification as well as connections to and influence over the other key influencers across the social spectrum.
  • Social Selling requires the ability to sustain a compelling and relevant social persona as a means of creating relationships with key influencers and decision makers.

COMMUNICATION

90%

EXPERTISE

74%

REACH

88%

INFLUENCE

91%
61Social Authority (Moz)
1UK GovTech Ranking
30Global Cloud Ranking
67Klout Score