She is a BCS Vice President[1] and the Past Chair of the BCSWomen Specialist Group that supports women in the IT industry.

Gillian Arnold was actively involved in the BCS (British Computer Society), The Chartered Institute for IT, and was the elected Chair of the BCSWomen Specialist Group that supports women in the IT industry.

She worked for 22 years at IBM until setting up her own company called Tectre in 2009.

[7] She was featured in the e-book “Women in IT: Inspiring the next generation” produced by the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT[8][9] In 2012 Gillian Arnold was a finalist in the Everywoman in technology awards where she won the inspiration of the year award.

Gillian Arnold, Past Chair of BCSWomen was invited to Korea on 27 October 2014 to receive the Gender Equality Main Streaming - Technology (GEM-TECH) award on behalf of the BCS and BCSWomen.