Barclays' chief technology officer Kevin Lloyd admits that he rose through the ranks from working in a branch to running the IT of one of the biggest banks in the world the hard way, through sheer hard work and determination rather than the old boy network. Silicon.com's Andy McCue talked to him to find out what makes him tick.

Kevin Lloyd's path to becoming CTO not only in one of the world's largest banks but for a company that, with an annual IT investment budget -- not including running costs -- of some £325m, is one of the largest IT operators globally, is not exactly typical.

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