A sharp, driven, and passionate technology leader with over 16 years’ experience in retail and eCommerce and travel. Enables people and technology to create short-term results with long-term strategic value. Career shows proven success in leading global teams through significant change; such as international expansion, replatforming, centralisation, and agile adoption. Has taken a multi-national technology startup through investment growth, acquisition, and sale. With a strong academic background in Mathematics and Computer Science, he is known for his sharp mind, commercial awareness, and passion for inspiring talent. CAREER HIGHLIGHTS • Repeated success delivering global technology solutions, with distributed international teams of up to 350 people and budgets up to £20m. Typically partnering with Executive Board members. • Developed and overseeing high-availability, high-scale systems such as Tesco’s UK in-store and online customer payment solution, handling at peak 4.3m card transactions (£216m sales) in a day. • Directed technology for large-scale complex transformational programmes, such as store-level merchandising across 3,000 Tesco stores in the UK, enabling sales uplift and operational efficiency. • Created and organised effective teams from scratch, for example 100 people organised around agile development principles, to a new deliver global digital platform for Tesco Clubcard Rewards. • Significant experience of consumer website delivery and management, such as the flagship £4bn global platform for Tesco Groceries online. • Proven achievements in CTO/CIO positions (e.g. Kelkoo.com), as well as an effective member of a technology leadership team, (Yadoo!, Tesco PLC). • Strong academic background with a 1st Class degree in Computer Science and Mathematics.

IT Director - UK & Ireland @ Leading the design, development and operation of Technology for the UK & Ireland businesses including the flagship brands Thomson and First Choice. Accountable for annual budget of £80m, member of the UK board, reporting to the CIO. From June 2015 to Present (7 months) Luton, United KingdomTechnology Director @ Lead the development and service management of 300 high-scale IT applications used by Tesco colleagues globally. Team of 350 based in UK & India. Annual spend £15-20m. Working with four Executive Board members. • Directed a transformational solution for store-level merchandising. Delivers unique plans for 3,000 stores based on local sales and local range, which is expected to deliver 2% uplift in total UK sales and a reduction in product waste. • Overseen the replatforming of Tesco Direct financial systems to enable financial control, new business propositions, and system performance. Partnering with the CFO to deliver our future global finance platform. • Developed and overseeing high-availability systems for UK in-store and online customer payment, handling at peak 4.3m card transactions (£216m of sales) in a day. • Created team to design a new end-to-end strategy for colleague lifecycle, comprising of over 80 applications from core HR through to Payroll. • Led web function which has delivered multi-channel and responsive-design websites and management tools including: Tesco careers - managing thousands of candidates a week, and a Site Research portal - supporting £600m of property investment decisions each year. • Deployed Oracle Peoplesoft to over 100,000 colleagues – Tesco’s first centralised core HR record system - and delivered a bespoke Time and Attendance management solution across 3,000 stores From July 2013 to March 2015 (1 year 9 months) Head of IT Clubcard / Clubcard Boost @ Created and led a new IT Function to replatform Clubcard Rewards. Budget up to £6m pa, 100 people • Relaunched the UK digital Clubcard proposition, including new features such as ‘Clubcard Perks’, Product Reviews, enhanced navigation, map search. Based on a new website & mobile design with integrated analytics, used by 15 million customers in the UK. • Shaped, designed, and led the replatforming of a new end-to-end International IT platform for Clubcard Rewards. Built the team from scratch, consisting of Project Managers, Business Analysts and Architecture in the UK, and six development scrum teams and a PMO in India. From October 2011 to July 2013 (1 year 10 months) Head of Engineering: Grocery, Wine & Mobile - Tesco.com @ Led a team of 120 engineers, developing solutions for customers across 3 IT programmes including the £multi-billion Tesco.com grocery website • Oversaw team delivering website and backoffice features for the £4bn flagship UK Grocery & Wine websites • Created successful teams from scratch to deliver ‘international grocery online’ and Tesco’s first in-house mobile applications. • Directed the transformation of UK Grocery software delivery by adopting agile principles and practices, and scrum team structures. Step changes seen in customer focus, frequency of delivery, website performance, and reduced time in testing. • Understood people issues, acted on them, and delivered step-changes in colleague satisfaction From February 2010 to October 2011 (1 year 9 months) Independent Consultant @ Advisor for Crowdstorm.com, Keynoir.com and Onefinestay.com on topics such as SEO, SEM and Business Intelligence From January 2010 to February 2010 (2 months) Director of Market Engineering, Business Intelligence, and SEM @ Accepted role as part of the initiative to run Kelkoo independently. Kelkoo was loss-making and undervalued, and this was an opportunity to rebuild it. Member of the executive team, reporting to CEO. Achievements: • Completed the divestiture of Kelkoo from Yahoo!. Performed restructuring leading to profit again in May 2009. • Led team of 40 across 8 offices, developing data feeds from merchants and platform enhancements to optimise service. • Deployed a Business Intelligence solution to provide previously unavailable metrics to the business. • Implemented and deployed a comprehensive IT solution for 280 users. • Led Kelkoo’s International Expansion strategy • Responsible for Search Engine Marketing function generating €4m+ revenue pa. from 15m keywords. From October 2007 to December 2009 (2 years 3 months) Director of Engineering (Country Teams), Europe @ Oversaw Yahoo! News, Movies, Sports and Games, plus Kelkoo products across Europe. • Consolidated 75 staff from 9 different locations into a single multinational team. • Led creation of a UK Personal Finance comparison service, generating £2.4m revenue pa. • Improved efficiency by automation and outsourcing to India, achieving a 25% reduction in headcount cost. • Improved quality of Media products through the implementation of new tools and processes. From April 2006 to October 2007 (1 year 7 months) Director of Market Engineering, UK @ After acquisition of Kelkoo by Yahoo! was promoted to lead the UK Market Engineering team for Yahoo!. Responsible for a team of 23 providing UK customisation and support of European platform for Media (News, Sports, Games, Finance, and Movies) and Commerce (Shopping, Cars, Travel, and Finance). Achievements: • Created a Personal Finance comparison service, generating £2.4m revenue pa. • Responsible for ‘controlled innovation’ of market-specific features such as 'call to buy' and Local Search. • Implemented the first QA process for Yahoo! Media in Europe. From May 2004 to April 2006 (2 years) CTO, UK @ Joined as a result of the sale of Shopgenie to Kelkoo.com; securing funding for the Shopgenie team and giving Kelkoo.com a head-start in the UK as part of its EU expansion strategy. Achievements: • Increased sellers live on site from 25 to 1300. • Delivered features including Product Feature Comparison and 2 web site redesigns. • Provided IT support for office of 65 staff (redundant internet connectivity, desktop and server support, firewall and file sharing management etc). • Moved from a loss-making to profitable business; in 2004 was approached by Yahoo! for acquisition. From June 2000 to May 2004 (4 years) CTO/CIO @ Joined as 2nd employee during seed-funding round. Achievements: • Established an IT team of 3, integrating products on to website. • Completed a full site rebuild and redesign. • Created a statistics system for traffic management and invoicing. • Provided IT Support for 25 staff. • Supported technical due-diligence phase when approached by Kelkoo.com for acquisition. From February 2000 to June 2000 (5 months) Senior Reseach Developer @ Achievements: • Developed a multi-platform instant messaging application with automatic presence detection in C++, Java, WML and WAP. Demonstrated to Board of Directors. • Enhanced a real-time implementation of CORBA (a vendor and platform independent communication architecture), to support a prototype Gigabit Ethernet card using C/C++ From September 1998 to February 2000 (1 year 6 months)

BSc (Hons) 1st Class, Computer Science and Mathematics @ University of Nottingham From 1995 to 1998 Reigate Grammar School, Surrey From 1988 to 1995 Lyndon Hearn is skilled in: E-commerce, Agile Methodologies, Continuous Integration, Strategic Leadership, International Development, Multi-channel Retail, Software Engineering, Start-ups, Mobile Applications, Mobile Devices, Strategy, Management, Java, User Experience, Scrum