1 August 2011
Appointment follows successful separation of IRIS into two
distinct businesses; IRIS Software Group & IRIS Accountancy
Solutions
The Board of IRIS Software Group Limited today announced
the appointment of Neal Roberts, as CEO of IRIS Software
Group. Neal Roberts, the company’s CFO for the past six
years, has been Acting CEO of the company since March this
year.
Neal Roberts’ appointment as CEO follows the successful
conclusion of the separation of IRIS into two operating businesses,
plans for which were announced on March 2nd. The Board and
Executive Management Team believed better customer focus could be
achieved by formally separating IRIS into two, with IRIS
Accountancy Solutions and IRIS Software Group being run
independently. This exercise is now largely concluded.
IRIS Software Group (ISG) represents all non-Accountancy
divisions of IRIS and serves the following sectors; Legal,
Not-for-Profit, Accounting & Finance, Payroll & HR, Field
Service & Hire, Ticketing, Healthcare & GPs, Software
modernisation and Software asset management and compliance.
At the time that the restructuring of the business was
announced, Neal remained as Group CFO having held that position for
6 years, and was appointed as acting CEO of ISG. With the
restructuring now complete, Neal is formally appointed as CEO of
IRIS Software Group.
Nick Discombe, Chairman IRIS Software Group commented, “The
Board and I are delighted that Neal has accepted the role of CEO
for IRIS Software Group. Neal has a wealth of experience
having successfully run much bigger businesses as CEO in the
technology sector, as well as being CFO for a number of other
companies, prior to joining IRIS. With Neal’s passion and
commitment, we will continue to build on IRIS’ success, as well as
changing and developing it to fully realise the Group’s
potential.“
About IRIS Software Group
IRIS Software
Group is one of the UK’s leading software and services
businesses. It has revenues of c£80m p.a. and almost 1,000
employees servicing over 45,000 UK businesses from a national
network of offices. IRIS works in clearly defined sectors with
leadership positions in the markets it operates in, and unrivalled
customer retention rates averaging over 90% p.a. across the
group.
IRIS Software Group has a market leadership position in the
Legal Sector (Law Firms,
Barristers & Coroner’s offices), Not-for-profit sector, in payroll and accounts software
for GP Practices and is the UK’s second largest provider of
payroll and HR
software.
IRIS Software Group is also an award winning provider of
accounting and ERP systems, as well as providing specialist
software for ; sports clubs, field service organizations,
architects, engineers, higher education and commercial training,
and IT divisions of major companies