WANDISCO - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Leader
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Non - Executive Director
Chris Baker is an experienced leader in the international technology industry and currently a partner of CBCS Associates, a software advisory business. From 1983 to 1997 Chris was with Digital Equipment Company, rising to serve as UK Sales Director for Outsourcing. During the period 1997 to 2014, Chris held several senior roles within Oracle, rising to Senior Vice President and Worldwide Head of ISV/OEM/Java Sales. Chris was then Executive Director of Xchanging plc from 2014 to 2016, leading the Xuber Insurance Software business, and from 2016 to 2021 Chris was CEO of Capita Software.
Job Titles:
- Business and Technology Executive
- Chief Revenue Officer, North America
Chris Cochran is a business and technology executive with 20+ years of experience. He specializes in developing people, processes, and technology that maximize revenue growth through strategic partnerships. By strengthening Cirata's relationships with a global network of strategic alliances (IBM, AWS, Oracle, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, GSIs, and ISVs), Chris has developed key go-to-market programs that serve as a cornerstone of the Company's revenue growth plans. In his previous role at NetApp, Chris was instrumental in the development of Azure NetApp Files (ANF) and oversaw the project from inception to NetApp's largest growth sector business. Prior to NetApp, Chris led the Central Sales Organization for Oracle as Regional Vice President where he oversaw revenue growth into Oracle's largest multi-national accounts.
Job Titles:
- Vice President, Investor Relations
Job Titles:
- Chief Scientist, Inventor, and Co - Founder
Job Titles:
- Vice President, Strategy and Operations
Job Titles:
- Interim Vice President, Marketing
Job Titles:
- CFO
- Chartered Accountant
- Executive Director
- Member of the Board of Directors
Ijoma Maluza is a Chartered Accountant with over 20 years of experience in Finance including as CFO of listed and private equity-owned companies in the Technology and Software industries. Ijoma was CFO of Blue Prism plc, a software company listed on the London Stock Exchange, before its sale to SS&C Inc in 2022. Prior to Blue Prism, he was CFO of IP.Access, a private equity-owned, hardware and software developer of small cells radio solutions. After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant, Ijoma worked in Investment Banking in the TMT team at Rothschild & Co. before joining Xchanging, a FTSE 250 company, where he became Corporate Development and Corporate Strategy Director leading all M&A activities.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Business Leader
- Interim Non - Executive Chair
- Non - Executive Chair
Ken is an experienced business leader, having held a number of senior executive and non-executive positions within UK-listed firms. He is currently Non-Executive Director at Veertu Motors plc and Rockwood Strategic plc, as well as Deputy Chairman of Rainier Developments Limited. Ken has recently stepped down as Non-Executive Chairman of Biffa plc and RPS Group plc. Ken was also a Non-Executive director at Blue Prism plc, an intelligent automation software business, where he was Chair of the Audit Committee. In his executive career, Ken was latterly Chief Executive Officer of technology, business services and insurance software business Xchanging plc. Ken is a member of the Advisory Board of the Alliance Manchester Business School and has served on the UK Accounting Standards Committee of the Financial Reporting Council.
Larry Webster - Chief Legal Officer, Secretary
Job Titles:
- Company Secretary
- General Counsel
Job Titles:
- Vice President, Engineering
Job Titles:
- Independent Non - Executive Director
- Member of the Board of Directors
Length of tenure Appointed 10 August 2022 Skills and experience Mr Lees has built a successful 35-year career in the UK financial markets, having served in senior leadership roles across multiple financial institutions, with a particular focus on Equity Capital Markets and the provision of investment and strategic advice to public and private companies. Mr Lees has built, grown and led a number of UK, European and Global Equity teams during his career, including most recently serving as a Managing Director at Stifel, where he was part of the leadership team in the Technology and Life Science sectors. Prior to that, Mr Lees served as Head of UK and European teams at F&C, responsible for managing over £15 billion of assets under management. Earlier in his career, Mr Lees rose to become Head of the UK Equity Team at Morgan Grenfell (latterly, Deutsche Bank), helping to drive the organisation towards its ultimate position as one of the top three Asset Management companies in London. External appointments None.
Job Titles:
- Chief Revenue Officer, International
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Executive Director
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Growth CEO
Stephen Kelly is a successful serial growth CEO with global experience in complex enterprise software & technology businesses with strong partner and direct sales channels. Stephen has an exceptional leadership record from start-ups to the largest organisations in both private and public sectors. Stephen led the turnarounds as CEO of Sage (FTSE50), Micro Focus (FTSE250), and grew Chordiant rapidly (Nasdaq) adding approximately $10bn of market value increase over almost 50 quarters during his stewardship as a public company CEO. The companies led by Stephen all became global market leaders in their sectors. In the 1980s, Stephen joined an early-stage European team at Oracle where annual triple- digit revenue growth was the standard in the enterprise data business. Stephen was on the founding team at high growth Chordiant, which grew from zero to $70m revenues in four years, became a fintech market leader with twelve of the top 20 global retail banks standardising on the Chordiant enterprise platform and listed in a $2bn IPO on Nasdaq in 2000. Stephen led the rapid and successful transformations to profitable growth at both Micro Focus and Sage while enhancing customer advocacy & market leadership. Micro Focus tripled its revenues to over half a billion dollars in three years with EBITDA moving from 20% to 43% and was the top performing FTSE stock with seven-fold stock increase in four years. Sage cloud revenues went from near-zero to over $500m ARR in three years and stock price doubled for Sage to become one of the UK's few tech companies valued at over $10bn.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Non - Executive Director
- Senior Finance Leader
Xenia Walters is a senior finance leader with an excellent track record of delivering operational and profit improvements within fast paced environments - both on the public markets and within private equity backed global operations. Xenia began her career with PriceWaterhouseCoopers (1991 to 1997) and during her career worked in various finance roles at Allied Colloids plc, Ciba Speciality Chemicals and Huntsman Chemicals. Xenia was with Regus plc from 2003 to 2011, initially as Group Financial Controller then as UK CFO. She was Group Finance Director of INTO University Partnerships and then Interim CFO of Oxford International Education Group until 2015, ultimately leading to her assuming the role of Group Chief Financial Officer of SDL plc and then Group CFO of Snowfox Group.