Founder and Research Director
Prior to setting up Creative Intellect Consulting, Bola worked at MWD Advisors and analyst firm Ovum. She is a Chartered Engineer and has industry experience spanning the full software development lifecycle across a variety of industry sectors, encompassing network computing and application development. She has worked as a senior software developer for Reuters and a chemical and process control engineer for Air Products.
Over the years as an analyst, Bola has built an extensive portfolio of authored, in-depth product review/evaluations, technology reviews, strategy reports and competitive analysis reports. Bola’s technology expertise include, Software development (technologies, product and processes), in particular, Application lifecycle management strategies for a variety of platforms (Mobile, Server, Desktop, Web etc.); software modelling, testing and performance. Other areas of expertise include Web 2.0 and Rich Interactive/Internet Applications; IT sourcing for software development projects; enterprise architecture, IT Governance and business management and embedded systems development.
Bola is regularly sought after to provide input into and drive vendor and product selection decision processes. She has acted as an advisor to leading IT providers such as Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Fujitsu, Adobe, Accenture, HP, Compuware and Borland; to investment and education bodies; and to large (and small) IT user organisations in Retail, Manufacturing, Media, Government, Automotive, Financial Services, Telecommunications and consultancies. An experienced presenter, Bola is also regularly quoted in trade and business press in Europe, America and Asia Pacific including Software Development Times, Computer Weekly and Computing.
Also working with Bola as an Associate Research Analyst writing content for Creative Intellect Consulting is Ian Murphy, an experienced and highly regarded technology journalist. At MWD Advisors, Bola and Ian authored a number of market and technology strategy reports on Cloud Development Services and Cloud Computing (Cloud Development Services, Navigating the Cloud Vendor Maze part 1 and 2 etc.), Agile development practices and the development of User Centric Services.
At Ovum, Bola was the principal analyst leading the Application Lifecycle research service. She also held the management role of practice leader for the software applications team responsible for the research and content strategy of the Business Intelligence, Software Applications, Open Source, Enterprise Architecture and Software Development topic areas.
The CIC analyst team
Member: UNSG High Level Panel on Digital Co-operation
Expert and Fellow: World Economic Forum Blockchain Council
Cathy has a broad mix of ‘real world’ and research experience at the intersection of telecommunications, smart cities and blockchain across a variety of countries and research domains. She is currently a Visiting Researcher at Imperial College and was a founding Co-Director of the ICL Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering, which was Europe’s first centre dedicated to blockchain and cryptocurrency research. She also holds an Honorary Research position at University College London, where she is Chief Technology Officer of the GovTech Lab and DataNet, which focuses on the potential and application of blockchain, AI and advanced communications technologies as a foundational part of the world’s governments and economy. Cathy is an expert and fellow of the World Economic Forum’s Blockchain council and a member of the United Nations Secretary General’s High Level Panel on Digital Co-Operation. She holds a PhD and MPhil from the University of Cambridge, where she also received her master’s degree in Engineering for Sustainable Development. She is the author of six books on technology covering IoT, EPC and the economics of the emerging digital economy based around information supply chains.
His clients have ranged from one person start-ups to global brands that span industries as diverse as Healthcare, Entertainment, Publishing and Finance. He has a passion for innovation and technology that demonstrates sustainable benefits for businesses and their customers.
Within healthcare, she has worked on topics like telehealth and remote patient monitoring, big data, analytics, gamification, connected care in the ambulatory and hospital domains and health insurers’ move towards digital therapies. Cornelia worked in different roles in her native Germany, but also, for more than a decade, in the UK, USA and Australia, where she experienced first-hand different healthcare systems.
As an analyst, Cornelia has worked for Ovum Ltd., Mentis Corp. (now Gartner Inc.) and BIS Strategic Decisions Ltd. In 2014, Cornelia set up her own business as a freelance Healthcare Analyst and Journalist and has been regularly contributing articles, interviews and life coverage from industry events to European trade journals like HIMSS Insights, 42, and European Hospital. She has also co-authored a chapter (“Legal limits and obstacles in the care for the terminally sick in the framework of the specialised ambulatory palliative care”) in a book.
Cornelia holds a Master of Economics degree from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (Main), Germany.
Paul’s experience spans both consultancy and real world practice across a variety of business domains, including banking, finance, manufacturing, petroleum and pharmaceuticals. Within his diverse technical competencies, application development, testing and quality assurance are his home bases. He now actively monitors and writes about the trends in Application Lifecycle Management, Application Development and Application Delivery, and assists clients in choosing, sourcing and applying best tools, processes and methods in those domains for Creative Intellect.