James Thomas, Chief Information Officer
James Thomas joined Wellcome in April 2016. He is responsible for leadership of our technology and digital services.
Before Wellcome, James had an extensive career in the private and public sectors, delivering transformational change through technology and data.
His career began in the oil and water industries, with BP and Veolia. He moved to global technology provider Oracle to develop and lead technology consulting services for clients, including banking, defence and manufacturing.
He then moved into healthcare, with technology leadership roles in the NHS. This included eight years as a Director of UCL Hospitals, establishing UCL Partners, London NHS Procurement Partnership and the UCH Macmillan Cancer Centre. Following this, James became an Associate Partner at Atos Consulting, including working with Genomics England to review its Informatics and bioinformatics capabilities.
