Michael was appointed as CTO for the PGA European Tour and Ryder Cup Europe in November 2017, and sits on the Executive Leadership Team. His responsibility extends across Business Systems, IT and Digital Infrastructure, Data Management and Scoring Systems, and includes the Official World Golf Rankings. Whilst undertaking a transformation of the technology landscape at the PGA European Tour, his early accomplishments to highlight are the delivery of the technology infrastructure for the world-renowned Ryder Cup 2018 in Paris, driving a digital transformation across the European Tour, and continued development of the ground-breaking tournament-as-a-service delivery framework.