Summary
Ross Maclean is a senior global customer experience and digital leader who has built and scaled technology-enabled, customer-centric businesses across EMEA and the UK for over two decades. As an EY Partner and Global CX Leader he runs the UKI Power & Utilities sector, helms EY’s relationship with Kraken Technologies, and co-founded EY Studio+ after leading the acquisition of his firm, The Collective. He previously served as Group CEO of The Collective—growing it to 210 specialists across creative, UX and product engineering—and as Chief Digital & Innovation Officer for EY across Africa, India and the Middle East where he drove digital penetration from 9% to 50% in two years. Ross combines board-level advisory experience with hands-on venture building, M&A and product development in SaaS, AI and digital safety, and has worked directly with ministers and large enterprises to translate strategy into delivery. Unusually for a leader at this level, he combines provenance in operator roles (BT, Accenture) with repeated start-up scale-ups and direct investment vehicles, giving him both operational rigor and entrepreneurial instinct. Based in London, he is a passionate advocate for technology as a force for good in education, communities and industry transformation.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
A levels, Politics, Economics, History, English, A levels, Politics, Economics, History, English at Loretto School
MA (Hons), Modern History, Politics & Economics, MA (Hons), Modern History, Politics & Economics at University of Glasgow
English, French