CEO Today Global Awards

www.ceotodaymagazine.com 36 CEO Today Global Awards 2019 united kingdom ALASTAIR BATHGATE CEO of Blue Prism Group PLC www.blueprism.com FIRM PROFILE Blue Prism® invented the term Robotic Process Automation. Our software platform enables business operations to be agile and cost effective through rapid automation of manual, rules based, back office administrative processes, reducing cost and improving accuracy by creating a “digital workforce”. The digital workforce is built by the operational teams or accredited Blue Prism partners using our robotic process automation technology to rapidly build and deploy automations through leveraging the presentation layer of existing enterprise applications. The automations are configured and managed within an IT governed framework and operating model which has been iteratively developed through numerous large scale and complex deployments. Blue Prism’s proven technology plays a key role in enabling organisations including; The Co-operative Banking Group, Shop Direct, RWE npower, Fidelity Investments, the NHS and O2 to rapidly respond to business change through agile back office operations and is powering the next major transformation in the outsourcing industry through the adoption of Blue Prisms digital labour. Robotic Process Automation for the services industry is emerging as a major trend as discussed in The Economist, The New York Times and Forbes. Recently Blue Prism was recognised by Gartner Group as a “Cool Vendor”: With offices in London, Manchester, Austin, Chicago, Miami, New York, San Francisco, Washington DC, Bangalore, Sydney and Toyko, Blue Prism was formed by a group of process automation experts in 2001. The company currently operates in the Financial Services, Energy, Telco, Insurance, Logistics, BPO and Healthcare sectors but the technology is truly industry agnostic as the digital workforce tackles rules based administrative work. Robotic Process Automation and Blue Prism® product experts who help you drive the creation of your Digital Workforce, the Blue Prism Professional Services team comprises operational, technical and industry experts with all the knowledge and experience you need to support you and your organization. Blue Prism Learning Guided and supported by Blue Prism, trainees are escorted through an ongoing methodical and controlled accreditation programme at the pace and path uniquely suited to their individual requirements. Following accreditation, further ongoing education is provided online via the Blue Prism Portal. Here Blue Prism users will benefit from high quality eLearning courses to refresh their skills, learn about more advanced or complex subjects and get up to speed with all the functionality in the latest release. Tighter budgets, expanding workloads, declining workforces, increasing regulatory requirements, rising data security concerns, and growing citizen expectations…as a public sector executive, these are pressures you live and breathe every day. ABOUT ALASTAIR BATHGATE Alastair Bathgate has worked in the enterprise software field since 1996, beforewhichhe spent a decade in various management positions at a leading bank. This has given Alastair a unique understanding of operational business processes and how technology can be used to improve efficiency and service. He co-founded Blue Prism in 2001 and has been CEO since. He holds an MBA from Leeds University Business School.