A technologist by background, Kerman is an Associate Partner and part of the team leading on provider and ICS digitisation within Healthcare and Life sciences at IBM. As a previous NHS acute trust CIO and expert digital health consultant Kerman has extensive experience of working in, and with the NHS across all aspects of transformation programmes involving digital, ranging from EPR implementation within large complex providers to broader ICS level patient record and data services programmes. Kerman currently leads on IBM’s work to transform citizen engagement and experience in healthcare by exploiting technologies commonly used in other sectors.