The Sector Specialist

Executive team

Phill Robinson, CEO, IRIS Accountancy Solutions

Phill Robinson

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.

 

Neal RobertsNeal Roberts, Group CFO and CEO, IRIS Software Group

Neal joined the main board of IRIS at the beginning of
April 2005.

Before moving to IRIS, Neal worked in the technology sector for 8 years as Group Finance Director of both public (Guardian IT PLC) and private companies.

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IRIS Software Group Managing Directors

Kay Mason
IRIS Accounting & Business Solutions

Kay MasonKay joined IRIS in May 2010 from Northgate Information Solutions, a privately owned software and services company.  Most recently she held the position of President, North America and prior to that Managing Director of Moorepay, Northgate’s UK SME Division.
 
Preceding this she spent 8 years in various sales leadership roles in IBM’s software business.  These roles spanned public sector, SMB and partner sales and all IBM software brands. 

 

Dale Thomas
IRIS NFP & Major Business Solutions

Dale Thomas

Dale joined IRIS in September 2009 from Amdocs, a $3bn IT Software and Services company focused on the telecommunications industry, where he lastly held the position of President of their Europe Division. He was a part of the management team that led the sale of Cramer, the leading provider of Operational Support Systems to the telecom sector to Amdocs over 3 years ago.

Prior to that Dale was at PeopleSoft where, over a period of 7 years, he held several senior management positions both in General Management and Professional Services, both in UK and International markets. Following the first 10 years of his career implementing ERP solutions in the UK electronics industry, Dale has, over the last period of 20 years, built a significant depth of knowledge and experience in the application software and services industry.
 

Oliver Shaw
IRIS SME Solutions

Oliver Shaw

Oliver Joined IRIS in Feburary 2009. Oliver is responsible for the ITC Division of IRIS Software, this covers 4 business units,  IRIS Payroll provides payroll and hr software and services to 35,000 uk companies with 2.8 m employees paid on the systems. IRIS Payroll has a strong reputation for providing compliant and easy to use solutions and award winning service. FAST Ltd is the leading indepent authority on software asset management and licence compliance and has helped over 8,000 business reduces the risk and costs associated with their IT estate. Transoft, a leading Integration, Migration and Modernisation specialist that focuses on helping organisations make the most of legacy IT systems and their data and IRIS Ticketing providing ticketing solutions in the sports and arts market.

Oliver has a strong background in sales and marketing across a number of industries. Most recently Oliver was part of the executive team that built RIAS, an award winning provider of Insurance to the over 50’s in the UK and one of the UKs fastest growing companies. Oliver has a BA Hons in Business Studies and an MBA.

 

Doug Hargrove
IRIS Legal Solutions

Doug Hargrove

Doug joined IRIS in July 2010 from Torex Group, a private equity backed global Software and Technology Group with deep domain expertise in the Retail sector. During his 5 years with Torex he held leadership positions as Vice President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer for the UK subsidiaries as well as Group Chief Marketing Officer responsible for marketing and product strategy.

Prior to this, Doug spent 7 years with Anker Group, the largest independent European Retail Software and Services company, where he held several leadership positions including European Group Service Director, General Manager and Managing Director for the UK subsidiaries. In 2004 Doug was part of the executive team that successfully listed the Group on the Alternative Investment Market in London and were successfully sold to Torex in 2005.


Phil Dawes
Group Engineering & Product Management Director

Phil DawesPhil joined IRIS in February 2009 from Verint Systems. Phil has spent the last 15 of his 20 years within the IT industry holding senior executive positions in a number of private and public software companies, typically during periods of significant change, and has been responsible for many of the key operations within those businesses. These positions include Senior Vice President of Global Services and Support for Witness Systems, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Research and Development for Eyretel PLC and Chief Operating Officer for the CODA Group plc. Reflecting this background, Phil has strong and extensive experience in leading programs to ensure successful and continuous performance improvements.

Phil holds a BA (Hons) in History from Lancaster University and is a qualified accountant having trained as a management accountant in a number of industries in his early career.

Phil has responsibility for the development and maintenance of IRIS’ software products.