Jonathan Murray

Jonathan is Chief Strategy Officer at Mod Op LLC, where he leads the organization’s engagements with a portfolio of clients seeking growth and more effective customer connections in today’s AI and data disrupted economy.

Throughout his career Jonathan has developed a unique blend of skills combining platform business strategy, digital transformation, direct and channel sales, product marketing and technology policy, all combined with a deep expertise in modern software engineering, architecture and practice. This makes Jonathan a truly hybrid executive, as comfortable navigating the needs of the board room as he is debating the finer points of system design or the deeper implications of new technologies and trends on social and economic development policy.

Prior to joining Mod Op, Jonathan was interim CTO and Head of Technology at The New York Times where he guided this storied organization’s 600-person technology organization through a CIO and CTO leadership change working closely with NYTs executive leadership team. Prior to this role Jonathan was Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Warner Music Group (WMG) where he was responsible for the company’s global technology strategy. In this role he drove the transformation of WMG’s technology capabilities, the implementation of a cloud based big-data insights and analytics platform and a breakthrough software delivery factory. This experience provided Jonathan with a unique perspective on the disruption of traditional organization cultures, structures, jobs and business models being wrought by a new generation of disruptive data and AI tools and platforms.

Previously, Jonathan spent sixteen years in various executive roles with Microsoft including Vice President of the company’s Public Sector Technology Office where he led a global team of senior staff responsible for engaging with senior government leaders, policy makers and academics on the impact of technology trends on national and regional development policy. In his prior role as Vice President of Global Account Sales he was responsible for a one-billion-dollar revenue business leading Microsoft’s sales and strategic relationships with the company’s top thirty global enterprise customers. Prior to joining Microsoft Jonathan held several systems architecture and implementation roles with ARCO International Oil and Gas.

Jonathan created the concept of a ‘Composable Enterprise’, which provides a radical blueprint for enabling highly adaptive and agile business models enabled by modern software architectures and platforms. The ‘Composable Enterprise’ model is now widely recognized as a roadmap for the modernization of enterprise IT.

Jonathan is co-author of several peer-reviewed papers with the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy at the University of California, Berkeley focusing on the impact of disruptive technologies and software platforms on social and economic policy.

Jonathan is a regular speaker on cloud computing technology and policy issues and has been an advisor to technology investment funds, the World Bank, European Commission, the OECD and The Conference Board.