CIO Development

Simon Horton

Simon Horton is a Negotiation Skills expert, having taught hostage negotiators, global manufacturing companies and solicitors at the most prestigious law firms in the world. He is a Visiting Lecturer at Imperial College, University of London, and has worked with many tier one banks, pharmaceutical and oil companies.

Simon understands IT as he has spent 12 years working in technology, primarily in the Financial Services sector. In his IT career, one major achievement, amongst many others, was designing the derivatives trading system used by the majority of the asset management companies in the City.

In 2012 Simon authored and published a new book: Negotiation Mastery, Tools for the 21st Century Negotiator.