The long read: Mark Denney had spent 22 years in the banking industry when, last November, he decided to leave his job as CIO of Barclays’ corporate division and join the British tax agency, HMRC.
Although the decision to take on an interim chief digital and information officer position followed a period of careful consideration, Denney could hardly have predicted that just four months into his new role, he would be tasked with handling one of the most significant challenges in the agency’s 171-year history.
Read our exclusive profile of HMRC’s outgoing tech chief here.
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