Twenty-five years across regulated industries.
Ovett & CxO isn’t a generalist consultancy applying the same playbook everywhere. It’s built on direct experience of what "regulated" actually means from the inside, in more than one sector and more than one role.
Chris has spent 25+ years in Enterprise Architecture, Cloud Strategy, Product Management and Innovation leadership across regulated professional services, GxP-regulated life sciences, unified communications, global telecoms and public sector education.
Alongside the executive background, there’s a hands-on technical streak: recent projects include a bespoke AI-assisted career intelligence tool and an open-source, AI-powered UK job-matching platform: evidence this is someone who still builds, not just advises.
Regulated industries need different leadership.
The job is really about one thing: making sure the technology a business buys actually maps to what it is trying to do. In life sciences, telecoms, financial services and the public sector, that decision also has to survive an audit, an inspection, a procurement challenge and a board-level review.
Ovett & CxO exists for that gap: senior technology, architecture and product leadership, plus the technical and commercial partner management that makes it work in practice, all treating compliance and accountability as first-class requirements, not obstacles to work around.
Years across regulated sectors
Life sciences, global telecoms, financial and professional services, and public sector. Depth across multiple regulated environments, not one sector stretched thin.
Architect, product and partner
Enterprise architecture, multi-year product roadmaps across hyperscaler cloud, data and AI platforms, and the strategic partnerships that make them commercial.
Fractional, not full-time
Senior leadership scaled to the engagement. Board-level experience without permanent headcount or consultancy day-rate overhead.
Where the experience was built
Enterprise architecture practice
Built the EA capability from the ground up inside a Top 5 professional services firm: principles, governance, and the business-architecture layer behind AI and data investment decisions.
GxP-regulated life sciences SaaS
Led the Cloud First move from on-premises to SaaS across a nine-operating-company portfolio, adding £3M+ in ARR and setting the AI and data strategies for the next generation of scientific products.
Global UCaaS & digital workplace
Ran international Solution Architecture across EMEA and North America; built the India market-entry and data-sovereignty approach that opened £2M of new business.
Global telecoms VoIP
Defined the service architecture for a global telco’s first single-number VoIP platform; ran technical due diligence on M&A targets.
Public sector education (PFI)
Led infrastructure strategy, architecture and procurement for UK PFI school builds: vendor and framework management from third-line engineering up to architecture.
Case studies with named clients and specific outcomes will be added as Ovett & CxO engagements complete.
- McLaren Racing
- Shell
- BG Group
- BT Global
- Unilever
- Kimberly-Clark
- Boehringer Ingelheim
- Novartis
- GSK
- FMC
- Micro Focus
Let’s talk about your situation.
A short, no-pressure conversation, not a pitch deck.