Nick
Discombe, Chairman
Nick has worked with private and public software, data and
services companies across the globe. Since 2007 Nick has been
working as an advisor and board member to a small number of private
equity backed businesses. Prior to this he was CEO of NASDAQ listed
Witness Systems which he joined in 2003.
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Phill Robinson, CEO, IRIS Accountancy Solutions
Phill joined IRIS in January 2009. He brings to IRIS a broad
combination of business development, product strategy and executive
management experience that has helped to build major software
organisations in Europe including Siebel Systems and
Salesforce.com. During his time with Salesforce.com, Phill also
held the positions of Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Operating
Officer, Sales and Distribution – based in San Francisco.
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Neal
Roberts, Group Finance Director and CEO, IRIS Software
Group
Neal joined the main board of IRIS at the beginning of
April 2005.
Before joining IRIS, Neal worked in the technology sector for
eight years as CEO and Group Finance Director of both public
('Guardian IT Plc') and private companies.
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Non-executive directors
Brad
Henske
Brad is a Managing Director at Hellman & Friedman and
non-executive director of IRIS. Prior to joining
H&F in 2007, he was the General Manager of the Consumer Tax
Group (TurboTax) and the Chief Financial Officer at Intuit.
Previously, he was the Chief Financial Officer of Synopsys, a
Partner at Oak Hill Capital Partners (Robert M. Bass Group),
the CFO at American Savings Bank and a partner at Bain &
Company.
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Stephen Duckett
Stephen is a consultant to Hellman & Friedman (H&F) and
was formerly a partner of H&F based in London. Stephen's
investment focus at H&F was on software, information services,
technology and Internet related companies in Europe.
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Blake Kleinman
Blake Kleinman is a Director at Hellman
& Friedman in the London office. He is a also a Director of SSP
Holdings plc, and was active in the Firm's investments in Arch
Capital Group Ltd., Axel Springer AG, ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG,
Mondrian Investment Partners Ltd. and The Nielsen Company.
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Alex
King
Alex is a Partner and Head of TMT Investments at HgCapital. He
has 11 year’s experience of TMT private equity investing. Prior to
HgCapital he was with Kennet Capital where he led investments in
the software, semiconductor and internet services sectors. Prior to
this he worked at Spectrum Strategy Consultants as an advisor to
companies across the TMT sector.
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