Rachel Neaman is a specialist in digital transformation, strategy, healthtech, skills and inclusion. She has extensive senior leadership experience in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors in the UK and internationally.
After an early career in publishing and publications management at Cambridge University Press and the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Neaman joined the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction in Lisbon, Portugal, where she created the agency's award-winning first multilingual website, and then Flextech Television in London before joining the UK Department of Health. Following the formation of the Government Digital Service in 2011, Neaman became the Department's first Digital Leader and developed the first DH digital strategy. In 2014, she became CEO of Go ON UK, the organisation set up by Baroness Martha Lane Fox to ensure everyone had the basic digital skills they needed in the digital age. On 1 April 2016, Go ON UK merged with . Neaman led on digital skills and transformation, as well as managing Doteveryone's strategic partnerships with organisations including the BBC, BT, Google, Lloyds Banking Group and Sage Group. In 2017 she became the first CEO of the , a not-for-profit organisation helping to build people’s trust and confidence in technology. She now runs her own consultancy, Neaman Consulting, working with FTSEs, governments, academia and civil society in the UK and internationally on healthtech, diversity, and issues relating to the impact of AI, big data and other technological developments on our social, economic, political and civic lives. Neaman is an executive coach and mentor and is a mentor for programme, helping technology startups transform public services. She sits on the Future Focus: Decumulation and Later Life Challenge Group, Chaired by Dame Carol Black, advising the Money and Pensions Service on its 10-year , and is a member of the ’s Health and Social Care Advisory Panel. Neaman holds a number of non-executive roles. She is a Non-Executive Director of where she sits on the main Board and Audit Committee and Chairs the Remuneration Committee. From 2013 to 2016, she was Chair of , a global initiative that has created a platform for expert opinion and networking on digital transformation for over 120,000 senior leaders from the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. She now serves as a non-executive member of the . She is on the Board of the Campaign for Social Science, and a non-executive member of the Board. Neaman is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars, a frequent judge of digital awards and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Awards
Neaman was a finalist for Digital Leader of the Year at the Women in IT Awards 2018. Neaman was awarded the inaugural Founder's Award at the Digital Leaders 100 Awards 2017. Neaman has been featured in Computer Weekly's annual list of Most Influential Women in IT since 2016.
