{"id":44514,"date":"2025-04-23T18:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T18:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/44514\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T18:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T18:28:11","slug":"computings-professional-body-appoints-new-coo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/44514\/","title":{"rendered":"Computing&#8217;s professional body appoints new COO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Joanna-Quirk.jpg\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" alt=\"The Swindon-headquartered professional body for the IT industry has appointed a new chief operating officer.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>    <\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-meta\">\n<li>Swindon &amp; Wiltshire Appointments<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday April 23 2025<\/li>\n<li\/>\n      <\/ul>\n<p>The Swindon-headquartered professional body for the IT industry has appointed a new chief operating officer.<\/p>\n<p>Joanna Quirk joins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcs.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BCS<\/a>, The Chartered Institute for IT from The Chartered Institute of Building, where she worked as chief operating officer, bringing a wealth of experience in professional membership bodies and operational leadership.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation said her appointment marks an important step in BCS\u2019 mission to grow its impact as the professional body for IT, championing digital skills, ethics, and excellence across the tech sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited to be joining BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT at such a pivotal time for the digital profession,\u201d said Joanna.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTechnology plays a crucial role in all our lives, and I look forward to helping BCS deliver its vision for a diverse, ethical, and competent tech industry that will make IT good for society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rob Deri, <a href=\"https:\/\/businessbiscuit.com\/business-people-news\/appointments\/rashik-parmar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interim CEO<\/a> of BCS said: \u201cJoanna brings a strong track record of delivering operational excellence and strategic transformation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer leadership will be invaluable as we continue to grow our reach and relevance across the digital landscape. We\u2019re delighted to welcome her to the BCS team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swindon &amp; Wiltshire Appointments Wednesday April 23 2025 The Swindon-headquartered professional body for the IT industry has appointed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3164],"tags":[3284,477,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-44514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-computing","9":"tag-information-technology","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}