Gordon Morrison is the Director Tech for Government for techUK, working with UK industry around public services reform and specifically on central government, defence, local government, healthcare, policing, national security.
Gordon started his career as a Scientist in 1985 supporting advanced materials research projects and developing techniques for remote data acquisition in highly hazardous environments.
In the 1990s as Project Manager in MOD he helped deliver a prototype joint forces IT system but In 1998 he moved to industry spending time as a security analyst for Zergo Ltd during the .com boom and joining EDS to work on a number of specialist ICT systems in both technical and account management roles.
In 2004 Gordon joined Detica Ltd as a senior manager on one of their large UK Government accounts. From May 2007 he held the position of UK Security Director for Steria and head of secure systems.
During his time in techUK Gordon has appeared on a number of parliamentary select committees, represents industry on the Cyber Growth, Security and Cyber Crime Reduction Partnerships and is responsible for delivery of all techUKs work with Government.
