CIO JOURNEY Great-West Life Accelerating the Financial Services Sector to the Cloud Company: Great-West Life Sector: Financial Services Driver: Philip Armstrong Role: CIO Revenue: $30 billion Employees: 24,000 Countries: 4 Company IT Footprint: GWL is the oldest insurance brand in Canada, and it has major subsidiaries in the United States, Ireland, the UK, and Germany. Of its 24,000 global employees, 3,200 are in information technology. “And technology transformation does not happen in a vacuum. There are cultural and economic changes to consider.” Philip Armstrong, Chief Information Officer, Great-West Life Excerpt from: Stiennon, Richard “CIO Journeys” Secure Cloud Transformation: The CIO’s Journey. IT-Harvest Press, 2019, pp. 222-232. 1Great-West Life Journey Ove

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