FD INTELLIGENCE - Key Persons
Andrew Guy - Founder, Managing Director
Andy is a highly experienced IT professional with a proven track record in delivering effective and innovative IT and business solutions. He has a passion for business improvement through IT, which led to Andy founding FD Intelligence in 2019. He has led the FDI team since then, turning it into one of the leading UK providers in Robotic Process Automation (RPA), pushing the boundaries of what automation can do and the benefits it can bring to any business.
Prior to founding FD Intelligence, Andy oversaw a major overhaul in the utilisation of technology throughout sister company French Duncan, which is now at the forefront of technology use in its sector. He previously spent 19 years as IT Director of Kingston Smith in London, one of the UK's largest independent accountancy firms and a UK Top 20 firm overall. Here he again oversaw a significant digital transformation programme which resulted in a substantial ROI.
He is extremely commercial in his outlook and has a particular talent for ensuring the delivery of complex projects on time and within budget.
Job Titles:
- Executive Manager
- Customer Success Director
Dave is an experienced executive manager with exacting standards of client service and product delivery, with specialist knowledge of the UK professional accountancy sector. He has over 20 years' experience delivering solutions to this market through product management and development, training and consultancy. Dave's key strengths include: • Change management and transformation - having been through 4 major acquisitions resulting in newly formed leadership teams, Dave has retained the entrepreneurial spirit that was vital when he first started out in the software market. • Versatility - he has led teams in product development, product management and service delivery. He has also created an outsourcing operation in Malaysia. • Strategic thinking - Dave has both led and been part of teams creating business plans and driving future strategy for small, medium and large businesses. Outside of work, Dave is a season ticket holder at AFC Wimbledon and occasional golfer.
Job Titles:
- Chief Operating Officer
- Leader
Denis is an influential leader with 26 years' experience and a sustained record of success in the software industry.
Dominic began his RPA journey with Hackett Consulting Services. Here he played an integral role in building out a Centre of Excellence at Bristol Water, delivering multiple solutions, training in-house developers and maintaining their managed services. After merging with Tquila Automation Dominic found himself heading up their OCR-technology capability, with a focus on the extraction of data from both text and handwritten documents. While at Tquila Dominic oversaw engagements within numerous business domains, from finance and insurance to retail and construction. It was here that Dominic worked alongside UiPath themselves as part of their Professional Services scheme. More recently Dominic was Senior Analyst and RPA Lead at Tysers Insurance within a cross-functional team of developers. Here he implemented rigorous RPA standards and methodologies alongside an Agile delivery framework which successfully deployed a multitude of processes across 4 robots. With over 5 years of experience with UiPath and other automation technologies, Dominic has made a point of keeping up to date with all relevant qualifications and technologies within the RPA space.
Job Titles:
- Head of Innovation and Development
Gareth studied a MPhys degree from the University of Exeter, and subsequently obtained a PhD in Acoustic Metamaterials. During this time, Gareth garnered excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to search for solutions that weren't immediately apparent - learning under his own initiative when field knowledge wasn't readily available. This opportunity also provided Gareth with some very strong technical experience using a wide variety of programming languages and environments.
Creating large amounts of research data led to the ability to present complicated information to a wide range of audiences, and how the private sector could benefit from Gareth's experience. He was quickly hired by Morpheus Group as an RPA consultant, and was promoted to senior developer within 3 months.
Subsequently Gareth worked for BAE as a consultant - an opportunity that brought him to Glasgow. He comes to FD Intelligence as Development Manager with a deep knowledge and understanding of UIPath. As a Certified Trainer in UIPath, Gareth brings with him a strong technical background and a host of experience with solving both RPA and general computing problems.
Following an eclectic career with roles that included qualifying with a Big Four firm, being a corporate manager with a major UK bank and running a credit card sales company, Graeme joined French Duncan in 2005 to establish French Duncan Corporate Advisory ("FDCA"), the corporate finance and advisory department of French Duncan. Following this in 2011 he also assumed the role of Managing Partner.
As one of the most recognised corporate financiers in Scotland, Graeme built FDCA into one of the market-leading corporate finance and advisory practices in Scotland. FDCA has twice been a winner at the Scottish Accountancy Awards.
As well as corporate finance expertise, Graeme has extensive commercial and management experience, having been responsible for two business turnarounds prior to joining French Duncan. Since becoming Managing Partner of French Duncan, the business has nearly doubled in size and has greatly expanded the services available to its clients.