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Gillian Arnold is a company director who has worked in the IT sector since 1984, this has included wide variety of technical roles such as managing teams for new products for IT companies including IBM. Gillian worked for 22 years at IBM until setting up her own company called Tectre in 2009. In 2012 Gillian Arnold was a finalist in the Everywoman in technology awards where she won the inspiration of the year award .She also sits on the board for women in science and engineering (WISE) Gillian was one of the 30 women identified in the BCS Women in IT Campaign in 2014 and has won awards for encouraging women into STEM fields. Gillian has chaired a forum for an IT trade association which is now called techUK and she is the current Chair of BCSWomen a specialist group which supplies support for female IT Professionals .She was featured in the e-book “Women in IT: Inspiring the next generation” produced by the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT