Paul Coby has been a FTSE 100 CIO for a quarter of a century. A remarkable fact that illustrates how digital technology has sequentially revolutionized different sectors of the UK economy is that he was the first-ever Group CIO—as opposed to ‘IT Director’—at four companies. He was named to that position at British Airways (2000), John Lewis Partnership (2016), Johnson Matthey (2018) and Persimmon Homes (2022).PAUL COBY