Rachel Neaman

Rachel Neaman (born 30 August 1965) is a specialist in digital transformation, strategy, healthtech, skills and inclusion. She has extensive senior leadership experience in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors in the UK and internationally.
Early life
The daughter of the late violinist Professor Yfrah Neaman OBE and the late Dr Gill Neaman, Rachel was born in London and educated at St Paul's Girls' School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Career
After an early career in publishing and publications management at Cambridge University Press and the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Neaman joined the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction in Lisbon, Portugal, where she created the agency's award-winning first multilingual website. She then worked at Flextech Television in London on interactive broadcast content before joining the UK Department of Health (DH). Following the formation of the Government Digital Service in 2011, Neaman became the Department's first Digital Leader and Head of Profession for Digital (equivalent to Chief Digital Officer) and developed the first DH digital strategy.
In 2014, she became CEO of Go ON UK, the organisation set up by Baroness Martha Lane Fox to ensure everyone had the basic digital skills they needed in the digital age. On 1 April 2016, Go ON UK merged with Doteveryone. Neaman led on digital skills and transformation, as well as managing Doteveryone's strategic partnerships with businesses including the BBC, BT, Google, Lloyds Banking Group and Sage Group.
In 2017 she became the first CEO of the Corsham Institute (Ci), a not-for-profit organisation helping to build people's trust and confidence in technology. She is now a business advisor, coach and mentor, and runs her own consultancy, Neaman Consulting, providing advice to FTSEs, governments, academia and civil society in the UK and internationally on strategy, digital transformation and leadership. She is a Partner at Strengths Unleashed, providing strengths-based coaching and consultancy support to executives, and a member of the Faculty of Holos Change, helping organisations to create sustained success through authentic leadership. Neaman is an executive coach and a mentor for PUBLIC's GovStart programme, helping technology startups transform public services, and for its Percy Hobart Fellowship. She is also a member of the Faculty of the Public School of Technology, helping public servants to gain the skills to operate confidently with new technologies, grasp the opportunities of the digital age and deliver better outcomes for citizens, communities, and businesses. She was a member of the Future Focus: Decumulation and Later Life Challenge Group, Chaired by Dame Carol Black, advising the Money and Pensions Service on its 10-year UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing, and is a member of the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation’s Health and Social Care Advisory Panel.
Neaman holds a number of non-executive roles. She is a Non-Executive Director and member of the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Committee of TPXImpact, and an independent Governor of Birkbeck, University of London, where she Chairs the Digital Committee. She is also a former Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Remuneration Committee of Checkit Plc. From 2013 to 2016, she was Chair of Digital Leaders, a global initiative that has created a shared platform promoting effective long-term digital transformation for over 130,000 senior leaders from the private, public and not-for-profit sectors, and was a non-executive member of the Advisory Board for 10 years. She also sits on the Boards of the Campaign for Social Science, and Digital.Health London.
Neaman is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars, a frequent judge of digital awards and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA).
Awards
* Featured in Total Telecom's Top 100 Influencers in UK Connectivity 2021.
* Finalist for Digital Leader of the Year at the Women in IT Awards 2018.
* Founder's Award, Digital Leaders 100 Awards, 2017.
* Featured in Computer Weeklys annual list of Most Influential Women in IT since 2016.

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