Simon Mulcahy was until very recently Head of the IT Industry group at the World Economic Forum. He has spent the last five years building relationships with CEOs of the leading IT companies globally, as well as leading strategists, government leaders, NGO experts and independent experts.He has developed numerous global knowledge networks around innovation, green technology, ICT in Financial services, technology for development, education, and eHealth.

Simon has lead many multi-stakeholder programmes to further progress in these areas through spreading greater understanding, piloting projects on the ground and generating broad senior-level buy-in.He recently completed a World Economic Forum programme to bring together 100 of the leading global experts on innovation to explore innovation clusters, innovation talent and collaborative innovation. This “Innovation 100″ programme has received much praise.

In January 2008, 45 of the leading IT & Telecoms CEOs unanimously approved a whitepaper he wrote on “the role of ICT in climate change mitigation”.Prior to this, he ran numerous projects including “IT Access for Everyone” which brought together a consortium of 11 IT global technology companies, including VPs from Accenture, AMD, Cisco, Dell, Intel & Philips on highly successful Digital Divide programme. He has been involved in many scenario projects, and directed the “Technology & Innovation in Financial Services” scenario project, partnering with Accenture.

Simon has recently joined Salesforce.com as Senior Director, Enterprise Strategy. He is convinced that the pace of technological change is accelerating faster than the capacity for most people to understand and react to it. Success will forever more be determined by the capacity for leaders to create flexibility and inspire dynamic change within their organisations.