Gareth Aitken

Gareth Aitken is a partner and go-to-market strategy leader for Preservica, with over 20 years’ commercial and technical experience across the global IT sector. His focus has increasingly turned to a simple idea: in regulated industries, recordkeeping and information governance are a core business strategy, not an overhead to be minimised. Construction and engineering is one clear example, where tightening expectations, from golden thread requirements to the IMI Framework’s recent extension into ISO 19650-6 health and safety guidance, are turning information management from a compliance afterthought into a genuine commercial and operational advantage. Gareth is passionate about starting from the customer’s point of view rather than technology, and about how AI and closer partnership across regulated sectors, including via alliances and communities, can help industries move from simply holding information to being able to prove it, efficiently and as standard practice rather than a scra