Phil Awde

Phil has over 12 years of senior IT management experience working across a range of sectors including utilities, public and private, government and IT professional services. Throughout this period, Phil has developed extensive experience of: IT leadership, strategic guidance, security and compliancy, service delivery, programme and project delivery and third party procurement and management.

Phil joined Napthens in September 2020 at IT director after a period of providing interim IT management services. His career in IT began as a graduate technical engineer, where Phil was part of a team responsible for providing IT support to a utilities service provider specialising in networking and phone system management. He then moved into a role of infrastructure project manager within the same organisation due to his knowledge of the environment. Phil then moved to an IT service provider as a senior project manager before moving to GB3 as head of systems, where he ran the professional services arm of the business, looking after a team of project managers and technical engineers, as well as taking the lead on GB3’s ongoing ISO27001 information security framework alongside providing support to business through interim head of IT services and strategic reviews. Phil completed his studies in 2007 attaining a BSc (Hons) Degree in Business Information Technology (UCLAN).

• Awarded an Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) Level 5 Award in Management.