Allan Hackney is SVP & Chief Information Officer – John Hancock Financial Services with oversight of the company’s technical teams. In this role, Allan is accountable for developing and executing strategies that increase productivity and efficiency, improve operating risk management and enhance the technical talent across the enterprise. As a catalyst for change, he is also responsible for increasing the value obtained from the Company’s investment in people, technology and service providers. Allan joined John Hancock from AIG Consumer Finance Group where, as CIO, he championed the effort to reposition autonomous banking and lending operations into a more integrated global expansion platform to enable significant expansion. Previously, he was SVP of IT for Bank of America Commercial Finance. Allan started his career at GE, where he held a number of leadership positions in the USA and Japan for GE Capital’s global consumer finance business, led more than 50 global IT due diligence and M&A integration transactions, and headed GE Capital’s initiative to launch Six Sigma across its IT function. Allan graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from Colgate University. He is on the Regional Board of buildOn, a non-profit organization that empowers youth in the U.S. to make a positive difference in their communities while helping people of developing countries increase their self-reliance through education. Allan is also on the Board of Common Impact, which connects the talents of employees in America's leading companies with high-potential nonprofits poised to solve social problems. Less   View all posts

Tim Cook co-leads the firm's Information Officers Practice and runs the HR Practice in London. He conducts senior-level assignments within the technology sector, with a particular focus on CIO & HR roles. He has over 10 years of executive search experience and joined Russell Reynolds Associates in 2008. His U.K. and international search experience includes a variety of appointments across all sectors and geographies including the Middle East. He has conducted leadership assessments of the IT function in different sectors. Tim’s recent assignments include placing the CIO at a global private medical insurance business; a global utility and a global retailer; the CIOs at the UK’s NHS and Inland Revenue organisations and the CTO at a price comparison website as well as the CTO of an online local directory and the BBC. He has conducted leadership assessments of the IT function in different sectors. Tim has worked with clients in the Middle East and placed the COO of a major stock exchange there as well as CIOs in the financial services sector. He was previously the CEO of Cherwell Scientific Ltd and, prior to that, he was with International Computers Limited (now Fujitsu Services) in both sales and strategy roles. Earlier, Tim served with the U.K. Armed Forces. Additional Professional Activities. Tim has successfully led the world’s first rowing expedition along 1,000km of the Upper Zambezi, from the Angolan border with Zambia to the Victoria Falls. For more information see . Tim has also authored articles in industry specific publications including the recent article "Why it’s still tough to find a good CIO" . Tim is a Governor at St John’s Beaumont School and a Trustee of the Make A Wish Foundation. Less   View all posts