Richard Gawthorne

Acting Non-Executive Chairman

Richard Gawthorne was appointed as Acting Non-Executive Chairman in February 2010 having been Non-Executive Director with Kewill since July 2006. He graduated with a BSc in Maths with Statistics from Bath University in 1972 and then qualified at Coopers & Lybrand before moving on to various roles in industry. Between 1988 and 1993 Mr Gawthorne held finance director positions at Prudential Life and Pensions and at Prudential Corporate Pensions and then a chief executive role at Pegasus Insurance Group. He is currently chairman of the private company MatrixMicroscience Ltd and has previously served as a non-executive director of the software company Smartstream Technologies Ltd and with 3i plc.

Paul Nichols

Chief Executive Officer

Paul Nichols is Kewill's chief executive officer. Paul received an Economics honours degree from Brunel University in 1978. In his early years in the IT industry, Paul held sales and business management positions in International Computers Ltd (ICL) and Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). In 1994 he joined Data Sciences Ltd as Executive General Manager for the Commercial and Financial Services business. In 1997 DSL was acquired by IBM and Paul became a director of IBM Global Services in EMEA with responsibility for the Banking and Financial Services industry. In 1999 Paul was appointed as President and CEO of Logica Inc the North American subsidiary of Logica plc. Paul joined Kewill as CEO in August 2002 and is a member of the Board of Directors.

Karen Bach

Chief Financial Officer

Karen joined Kewill in August 2009 from Advanced Computer Software Plc where she was CFO. Karen was closely involved in the development of ACS from a shell company into a substantial software and services business in the health care sector. Her focus included the acquisition and integration of two key businesses.

Prior to this Karen was CFO of IXEurope Plc, a datacentre services provider which listed on AIM in April 2006 and was acquired by Equinix in September 2007 for circa £270m. In Karen's four years with IXEurope, the business grew rapidly from £11m to over £60m revenue, from negative EBITDA to over £20m and from eight to 15 sites in Europe. Karen's previous positions include Finance Director of EDS France and various international roles at MCI WorldCom and General Motors, having qualified as a Chartered Accountant at Ernst & Young in 1995.

Andy Roberts

Non-Executive Director

Andy was appointed as a Non-Executive Director to the Company in April 1997 and was appointed Non-Executive Chairman in April 1998. He held several senior management positions within ICL between 1982 and 1993 and then served as Chief Executive of Data Sciences plc between 1993 and 1997. Following the successful turnaround at Data Sciences the company was acquired by IBM in March 1996. In 1997 he served as President of Intellect and remains active in support of the Association. He is a Non-Executive Director of several software related companies and he has recently taken on the role of Chief Executive of the Innovation Group PLC.

Charles Alexander

Senior Non-Executive Director

Charles was appointed a Non-Executive Director in April 2001. Charles is currently Head of Corporate Banking in Asia Pacific for Bank of America Merrill Lynch based in Hong Kong.  Prior to this he was MD and Head of Origination and Client Coverage, NE Asia for Standard Chartered Bank, in Hong Kong.  He has also held the position of MD and Head of Asia Corporate Finance Group at Lehman Brothers Asia Limited, and previously Co-head of Lehman Brothers European M&A based in London whereby he advised several of the Firm’s leading clients on major transactions in the communications industry. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, Charles worked with JP Morgan from 1987 to 1998. Prior to moving into investment banking, Charles worked for McKinsey & Company in London and Tokyo from 1982 to 1987 and for the Boston Consulting Group in Boston from 1980 to 1982.