The 50 most influential women in UK IT 2016

Anna Barsby has been CIO at Halfords since March 2013, where she has led a major IT overhaul and a cloud migration. She joined from TUI Travel, where she was business change delivery director following a stint as director of IT projects and programmes. This autumn, Barsby will become chief technology officer at Morrisons, taking on the retailer’s digital and IT challenges. She has also been head of infrastructure and service delivery at Whitbread, and IS transformation programme manager at the Financial Services Authority. She has an MBA from Warwick Business School.