Bob Hayward is the Chief Technology & Innovation Officer for CSC Asia/Pacific. In this role, he is responsible for the overall direction and business management of CSC?s technology offerings, product strategies and innovation programmes in the Asia/Pacific region.

Prior to joining CSC, Bob was a Director of IT Services for KPMG Australia and was Senior Vice President and Research Fellow Asia Pacific for Gartner, the IT research firm.  He has previously held regional leadership positions with Candle Corporation and distributed Tivoli Systems in Asia Pacific through Qualix, his own company, before both companies were acquired by IBM.

Bob is a co-founder of InQbator on the Gold Coast, Australia, and is also the co-founder and continuing non-executive director for Asia Online, an Asian-based business in the field of automated machine translation technologies and consumer portals.

He has been a national board member for the Australian Information Industries Association, Chairman of the AIIA Environment and Sustainability Leadership Council, a member of the Federal Government National Standing Committee on Cloud Computing and is on the ICT Advisory Board for the NSW Government.