Saviour Alfino
Technology delivery, standards and innovation.
I lead the delivery of complex technology programmes: enterprise software, cloud platforms and data-intensive systems.
Taking something complex, ambiguous and multi-stakeholder, and turning it into something delivered, adopted and durable.
Introduction
My background runs from semiconductor engineering through international standards development to hands-on delivery leadership — which means I can hold a technical conversation and a boardroom conversation in the same afternoon.
What I do
Delivery leadership
End-to-end delivery of enterprise software, cloud and data programmes — scope, milestones, dependencies, risk, governance and phased go-live. Comfortable as the primary point of contact for customers and as the person who holds delivery partners to their commitments.
Standards, data and interoperability
Smart cities and IoT standards development, including contributions to PAS 181, PAS 182 / ISO 30182 and related work — making data from many different source systems usable together through common models and APIs.
Innovation and emerging technology
Taking ideas from concept through proof of concept and pilot to adopted solution, including AI and generative AI, IoT and automation. I am a delivery lead who is fluent in these technologies rather than an engineer who builds them, and I think that distinction is an honest and useful one.
Three chapters
until 2007
Semiconductor engineering
I began as a semiconductor and electronics engineer — silicon product and test development at Intel, embedded systems and automation at STMicroelectronics, and earlier work in test-equipment design and R&D.
Intel · STMicroelectronics · Dedicated Micros · Dionica · Carlo Gavazzi
2007–2020
International standards
I then spent eleven years at BSI, the UK’s national standards body, where I moved from standards programme management into smart cities and emerging technology, and finally into consulting as the organisation’s first Consulting Manager, helping build a new practice.
SEMI Europe · BSI Group
2021–present
Delivery leadership
More recently I have worked in hands-on delivery leadership — cloud migration and regulated platform delivery at Light & Wonder, and enterprise software and data programmes for electricity-grid utilities at GE Vernova.
Swarco · Light & Wonder · GE Vernova
Perspectives
Climate action rarely fails on ambition. It fails on delivery — fragmented data that will not talk to itself, standards that exist but go unused, and organisations that cannot afford the consultants who would normally bridge that gap.
The interesting question is where AI makes that bridge affordable for the people who currently go without it.