Role Models:
Gillian Lamela

Gillian is an Executive Director at JP Morgan and responsible for shaping the Public Cloud migration strategy roadmap, driving acceleration across public cloud adoption, enabling Markets businesses to provide simpler, faster access to storage and compute, reduce our data centre footprint and facilitating optimization. Previous to this, she was Engineering Delivery Lead at Barclays Investment Bank leading accelerated cloud migration trains, adoption of new migration tools, engineering productivity strategy and led the bank’s first-ever virtual innovation challenge. She started her career as an Engineer/UI Designer at Lehman Brothers and joined Barclays in 2008 where she held roles ranging from web development, systems design and analysis, testing automation and lead end-to-end delivery programme execution for CCAR and Lehman/Barclays systems integration of ~200 global systems resulting in over £1B cost savings to date. Gillian has received accolades for her lifetime contributions in Technology including Computer Weekly’s “Most Influential Women in UK Tech”, TechWomen100 Award and nomination for Top 3 Networks of the Year as co-founder Women In Technology Europe network. She can be seen in several publications, industry events and is part of Google UK’s Leaders Exchange.