David Parrott

Dr David Parrott joined Reuters (now Thomson Reuters) in 1997 where he is presently Chief Architecture Officer with teams encompassing enterprise systems, business, and data architecture, technical policies and standards, and information security. His career has spanned R&D, technical product management, IT architecture, systems development, and technical governance, providing him with a valuable mix of customer interaction and IT strategy.

Before joining Thomson Reuters David ran development teams with Financial Times Information as an IT architect and development manager in the Market Data business and also worked for British Telecommunications Research and Development Labs leading research into advanced information processing systems. David's doctoral thesis was in the field of dynamic optimisation of parallel workloads from functional programs. Throughout his career David has maintained a clear focus on using technology as an accelerator for business strategy.

David has a young family that occupies much of his time away from the office and he is a governor at his local village school.