Business unit Managing Directors
Stuart Dawson
IRIS Accounting & Business Solutions
Stuart joined IRIS in September 2005. Previously, he
ran the EMEA Operations for RedPrairie, a venture capital backed
global provider of supply chain software.
After studying Electronic Engineering, Stuart has spent most of
his career in the software industry, where he has held senior
positions in sales, marketing and general management in both
private and public companies.
Robert Salvoni
IRIS Accountancy Practice Solutions
Robert joined IRIS in January 2007. Prior
to IRIS, Robert was a Director at BT, where he built up BT’s
Wholesale Service Provider business, as well as launching and
running a series of telecoms ventures, including BT Openworld - the
UK’s first Broadband ISP, a billing company and a joint venture
with Unisys.
Before BT, Robert was an army officer. Following his
training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, he was
commissioned into the Royal Signals, and served in both the Regular
and Reserve Forces across the globe. He holds an MBA from
Nottingham University.
Ian Ashby
IRIS NFP & Business Solutions
Ian joined IRIS in September 2007. Prior to IRIS, Ian held
a number of CEO/MD and senior Sales and Marketing roles in the UK
and Europe in both publicly traded and privately held companies
within the telecommunications and technology/IP industries.
These roles included VP Sales and Marketing for major European
integrator NextiraOne (formerly part of Alcatel), Divisional CEO
for Novar PLC, EMEA VP for Lucent Technologies (now Avaya
Communications) and MD roles at the Cable & Wireless Group.
Immediately prior to joining IRIS, Ian was CEO of Exony, a UK-based
software vendor focused on value-added applications for the
enterprise contact centre market, where he led the company’s rapid
growth.
Ian has an MA (Hons) and an MEng in Chemical Engineering from
Cambridge University, and spent his early career in the oil and gas
industry.
Catherine Venus
IRIS SME Solutions
Catherine joined
IRIS in September 2007 from The Sage Group plc.
Catherine started her career in legal insurance and then went on
to specialise in setting up and running large contact centres
mainly in the Insurance and Financial Services sectors. Before
joining Sage she worked as a management consultant.
During her 11 years with Sage, Catherine held various positions.
As Sales Director, she grew the business from £20 million to £120
million. Latterly, as Customer Services Director she looked after
500 staff. Catherine is responsible for the IRIS SME Solutions
division and telesales for IRIS.
Arlene Adams
IRIS Legal & Compliance Solutions
Arlene joined IRIS in July 2007. Previously, Arlene
was CEO of Valista, a venture capital backed global payment
software company.
Arlene spent 8 years at Sun Microsystems where she was UK Sales
Director. She has also held senior business management positions in
IBM.
Arlene has a First Class Honours Degree in Business Studies and
Human Resource Management.
IRIS group directors
Peter McNaney
Group Chief Information Officer
Peter joined IRIS in March 2005 from Pivotal
Corporation, a market-leading author of Customer Relationship
Management systems across a broad range of industries.
Peter started his career as a software engineer with Smith
Industries Aerospace and Defence, before moving onto specialist
software vendors working on the provision of sales, marketing and
customer service systems. Peter also worked for a business unit of
the Royal Bank of Scotland as Development Manager for their
internal systems.
Peter has over 20 years' experience in the IT sector,
focusing primarily on project management and IT governance. As CIO
for IRIS, he is responsible for all aspects of the group's internal
information systems applications, development and information
technology strategy.
Gary Daniels
Group Chief Technology Officer
Gary joined IRIS in
August 2007. Gary is responsible for all aspects of IRIS'
technology and product development strategy.
Gary has over 30 years' experience in software development as a
software engineer, manager and executive building software products
ranging for volume shrink-wrap operating systems to large-scale
distributed enterprise applications.
Prior to joining IRIS, Gary was responsible for product
development at Misys Banking Systems, a leading global provider of
banking solutions.
David Pinches
Group Marketing Director
David joined IRIS in September 2008 from The Sage
Group plc.
David has over 25 years’ experience in the software sector,
originally from a technical background but progressing through
support, sales and into senior marketing, general
management and director level roles. His sector experience
includes business application software across the SME and large
enterprise sectors with Lotus Development (now part of IBM),
Software Publishing Corporation, QSP and Sage.
David holds responsibility for the IRIS product strategies
and roadmaps as well as driving best practice marketing activities
across the group.
