Lee James, Rackspace Technology
Lee James
EMEA CTO
Rackspace Technology

As Chief Technology Officer for Rackspace Technology EMEA, Lee James is an avid customer champion and vocal about our EMEA strategy, responsible for helping customers accelerate the value of their business through Rackspace's portfolio. He is the executive sponsor for a number of their largest EMEA customers, and leads the strategic development of Rackspace Technology EMEA products and services. Lee has more than 20 years of experience across large scale, multinational and agile-based environments, developing and implementing industry-leading DevOps, cloud, analytics, Edge, digital strategy and transformation to deliver significant business value to customers. His prior experience includes senior roles across BP, Betfair and GlaxoSmithKline. At Betfair, Lee was responsible for delivering a DevOps-driven platform that performed more transactions than all the European stock markets each day. At BP, he was recognized for building the company's first multi-cloud platform.