Paul A Sykes FCMA, FIITT, MIoD
– Chief Executive Officer
Paul is an entrepreneur and communication expert with a background in accountancy and IT. His extensive employment experience stretches from the post-room to the boardroom. A natural leader from childhood, Paul is a visionary who has run companies, departments, projects and teams in both commercial and not-for-profit organisations, always exploring new and creative ways of developing solutions and adding value for customers/members/users. He is highly IT literate and confident in his own intuition and analytical skills; seeing effective systems as a vital element of helping people in business, not only to succeed but also to fulfil their potential and remain engaged with its purpose and activity. He also has over twenty years experience as a consultant - facilitating change and innovation within organisations both in manufacturing and service industries, as well as the public sector.
Peter L Green BEng, CEng, MIMechE, CMC, MIBC
– Chief Technical Officer Peter is a strategy and business systems transformation expert with a background in general and functional management and twenty years as a managing consultant. . He has a wide ranging knowledge of IS environments, architectures and an insatiable curiosity for leading edge technology but always with a view to the business benefit and the organisational impact. He has previously held posts as IT Director for a services group, Head of Transformation Consulting for a major outsourcing company, a Lead Principal for a “big 4” consultancy, and various senior management roles in quoted and unquoted companies. He likes to think of himself as the human, business focussed face of IT.
Simon Warwick
- Chief Financial Officer
A forward thinking individual with an eye to detail, Simon continually drives for success. Working in senior finance positions and then moving into business consulting for the finance function, he has extensive knowledge and understanding of business performance management. The past 20 years have been spent advising FDs, finance staff and other members of senior management teams on how to transform the collective mindset from “cost centre” thinking to one of “profit or investment centre”. Simon fundamentally understands the provision of meaningful financial information using a “single version of the truth” approach and knows the practical means of ensuring secure and robust systems of financial control. He is an experienced change manager through mentoring, coaching and training, and he is an excellent team player, focusing on both business and staff performance. He is familiar with large-scale projects, corporate trouble-shooting, business process re-engineering; as well as being a skilled relationship manager with micro, SME and blue-chip organisations in both the private and public sectors.
Jayne Reid BA(Hons), Dipm, MCIM, MIDM – Chief Marketing & Sales Officer
Jayne is a people’s person and firmly puts team development and team motivation at the core of her entrepreneurial success.Trained as a professional marketeer, she has worked extensively in both Marketing and Sales Director roles, learning the business development structures and management functions within both disciplines to give her a hands-on expertise in formulating, planning and implementing any strategic marketing challenge. Jayne now utilises this considerable experience to offer a variety of consultancy, coaching, workshops and change management across corporate, public sector and SME sectors, empowering companies to achieve their full financial potential.
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