Gillian Clark - Assurity Consulting Gillian has over 24 years experience in the IT industry and for many of those years she has held senior positions in multinational organisations in the UK, France, US and now New Zealand. 

Gillian is a principal consultant at Assurity Consulting and provides strategic consulting and coaching to clients to help them maximize value from IT, from implementing Agile practices, through to effective Porfolio Management.   

Gillian is a leading Agile advocate within New Zealand and has had a number of high profile Agile consulting engagements within New Zealand; is an Agile Project Management trainer (based on Rob Thomsett's work), is a Scrum Practitioner and is a Scrum Product Owner.  Gillian also provides executive and team agile briefings to help bring the concepts and practices to companies in NZ.

Gillian is also a founder member of the Agile Professionals Network (www.agileprofessionals.net) and also manages the Agile Professional Network LinkedIn group for NZ 'agilists' to complement APN community.

Gillian has also given many presentations about Agile Project Management and Agile Development at conferences, seminars and internally for clients.