Andy Meighen is the Chief Information Officer at Future Academies Trust. Since joining just over two years ago he has been implementing an IT strategy to centralise, standardise, consolidate and automate systems and processes in all 10 Academies within the trust. A ground up redesign of systems with an emphasis on security has now been completed. This is based on a secure by design network, zero trust and a move of all systems to the cloud. Previously, Andy worked as a consultant with a number of trusts as well as working with Arbor migrating schools from SIMS. Before that, Andy worked as IT Director for Harris Federation, leading the expansion from 19 to 50 Academies. At Harris, he successfully led the recovery of the IT systems after a serious ransomware attack and has taken the many lessons learnt from that experience into future engagements.