Roger Johnston

Roger Johnston is the current CEO at Axial3D, and was previously the VP of Business Development at Kainos from September 2018 to August 2019. Prior to that, they were the ILG Strategy Lead EMEA at IBM from October 2012 to February 2015. In this role, they lead IBM's market leading Information Lifecycle Governance/Defensible Disposal sales to their largest EMEA customers. Roger was also responsible for all client acquisition activities.

Between their time at IBM and Kainos, Roger was the Vice President of Business Development at Nuix from August 2011 to October 2012.

Companies and their information governance leaders are rapidly working to define programs and improve processes that enable defensible disposal of unnecessary data. This effort can curb storage growth, dramatically lower IT and legal costs, and lower the organization’s risk profile systemically.

Defensible disposal enables IT to:

achieve transparency for legal and business obligations and policies for data in a shared data source catalogue, automatically apply retention schedules and legal holds on data to consistently dispose of unnecessary data, defensibly dispose of unnecessary structured and unstructured datacurb storage growth and manage data by its value.

Roger Johnston has a BSSc in Business Administration and Accounting from Queen's University Belfast, as well as a BSSc in Business and Accounts from Grammar School.

Some direct reports include Cathy Coomber - Ops Manager, Daniel Crawford - Founder & CSO, and Jenna McGarry - QA/RA Lead.