Alex works with organisations to make rapid and fundamental changes to their business by leading the development and deployment of new technology, by communicating awareness of the organisation’s current state and creating a clear strategy for what is possible. From the development of large-scale payment processing platforms to regulatory compliance for HealthTech systems, Alex thrives in an entrepreneurial and investor led culture. An advocate of continuous delivery and mixed-method lean methodologies, Alex works with product teams rapidly iterating concepts and developing market ready products and services.

At Freeman Clarke, his work encompasses novel mobile-first social networks through to strategic support of artificially intelligent clinical care platforms, with organisations ranging in size from four/five-person startups through to multinational enterprises. As well as remaining on top of the latest software development practices, infrastructure approaches and trends within the industry, Alex is specialist in application of information security and data protection, and new/emerging technologies – especially distributed ledger, automation and extended reality.

Andy Jones joined Freeman Clarke having had an extensive career in senior IT leadership positions that culminated in being co-founder and CTO for Jewelstreet, an online designer jewellery marketplace. Andy has wide-ranging digital, ecommerce and online experience as well as operational and infrastructure services. He is used to working at board level and setting and delivering strategic direction for IT and making sure it underpins business growth. As well as founding Jewelstreet, before Freeman Clarke, Andy was CTO at Applegate Directory and Outcome Technologies and Group IT Director at Complinet.

Brian joined Freeman Clarke in 2020 to work with clients on value creation, growth and innovation.

Brian is technology partner in a PE firm, NxD and advisor to start-ups (healthtech, music technology, AI, telematics and 100 startups in the world’s largest accelerator) and turnaround CTO (e.g. building the connected car platform with Samsung).

He has won multiple technology awards, including HealthTech Innovator of the Year, creating and delivering business and digital business strategies at the highest levels in Government (CTO in the Cabinet Office), FTSE100 (Prudential, Corus, BA, BT) and Fortune 500 companies (Mars, Cargill, Marsh) as well as many startups and SMEs.

Carolyn joined the West Midlands team in 2017 and has a wealth of experience at both operational and executive level, with considerable experience delivering robust and cutting-edge IT solutions for business critical, highly-available & secure environments across a variety of sectors including media, healthcare and social housing. Carolyn is highly experienced in formulating and delivering IT strategies, service management, successful project delivery and business leadership. She has a passion for technology and its use as an enabler to deliver business growth and transformation. Since joining the team, she has been working with Harris Lamb, a property consultancy business headquartered in Birmingham with offices across the Midlands, and Birmingham-based Peters, the UK’s leading supplier of children’s books and furniture to schools and public libraries.

Prior to joining Freeman Clarke, Carolyn held senior leadership roles at Castleton Technology Plc, Bromford Housing Group, Alliance Medical Ltd and Autotrader. She holds an MBA from Manchester Business School.

David joined Freeman Clarke having successfully held senior IT leadership and director roles in a number of organisations within B2B, B2C, media, professional, publishing, outsourcing, BPO and FTSE100 corporate sectors, including Impellam Group, Williams Lea, Callcredit and EMAP plc. David has significant experience in the translation of business requirements into tangible and realistic IT deliverables, along with experience of driving change management, business transformation, service transition strategies, technology roadmaps and data centre consolidation. David has in depth experience of building both onshore and remote IT teams.

David has 25 years’ experience in IT services in both management and technical roles. Prior to Freeman Clarke, David built from start-up and sold two IT support companies. David has extensive knowledge of the SME sector helping organisations apply technology to solve business issues and create value. Based in London, David works with clients across the South East, his current clients are in bio tech, insurance, exhibitions management and a charity additionally his experience encompasses financial services, professional services, property, retail and recruitment. In his spare time he enjoys cooking, cycling and swimming. Read the Oxitec client story.

David joined the London and Northern Home Counties team in 2016 and has been supporting clients in manufacturing, HVAC, insurance, security, publishing logistics, public health, office relocation and financial services since that time. He helps his clients to navigate through the technology minefield by understanding their goals & challenges before agreeing a clear direction and taking ownership for their IT.

David’s career began in manufacturing, before becoming the CIO/IT Director within a number of sectors including Legal, Enterprise Development, Not-For-Profit, IVF and Rail Regulation, an ISP and the NHS.

Based in Essex, David also supports clients in London, Suffolk, Hertfordshire and Kent. He is highly ethical with a passion for business improvement and delivers value from day one.  When not working, he enjoys motorcycling, sailing, cycling, skiing, DIY and golf.

Read SWIFTCLEAN client story.

David, based on the Wirral, joined Freeman Clarke in 2015 as a Principal in the North West region. David’s IT career has included 10 years at Accenture followed by successful IT Director roles in a variety of sectors including Multi-Channel Retail, FMCG, and Financial Services mainly in the Leeds and Manchester area. At Freeman Clarke, David has helped The Big Life Group, a leading Manchester-based charity, and David is currently providing part-time IT Director services to two other clients in Warrington: The Delivery Group, an Ecommerce, Retail and Postal Logistics business; and Assura, a FTSE 250 company, in the Primary Care Property sector. Read Assura PLC, The Delivery Group, The Big Life Group client testimonials.

Hugo joined Freeman Clarke after working with a range of SMEs as Interim CTO, CIO & IT Director and running change & transformation programmes. Hugo has implemented Cloud solutions, ecommerce platforms, ERP systems and led Agile teams improving productivity. Previously Hugo was IT Director at Sporting Index, where he launched them on all digital channels and took them through two rounds of MBO. Hugo is now working with clients in manufacturing/supply chain and logistics in Essex and East London. In his spare time Hugo enjoys working on his family smallholding in Suffolk.

Iain joined the East Midlands team and works as IT Director with AllTruck in Leicester, specialists in contract hire and truck rental, where his IT transformation programme won their Business Partner of the Year Award in 2016. He is IT Director at Cornelius Group in Bishops Stortford, a European manufacturer and distributor of speciality chemicals, additives and ingredients and as CIO at Armitage Pet Care in Nottingham, defining and delivering IT strategies to help them both transform and modernise the technology used to ensure the clients gain real business value to support their growth. He has delivered IT strategies for the Motor Neurone Disease Association in Northampton and an Education Trust in Norwich and has worked with a Facilities Management company, helping to deliver a business optimisation programme and also with an importer and distributor of cut flowers and citrus fruits, to help them design and move to a new purpose built pack house and distribution facility. Prior to Freeman Clarke, Iain also held senior IT leadership positions at CEVA Logistics and TNT Logistics. Read AllTruck client story.

Ian is in the London team at Freeman Clarke and has extensive experience as a CIO CTO & IT Director. Ian is an expert in digital and business transformation. He has delivered marketing automation solutions, deployed finance and ERP systems and multiple cloud SaaS applications and IaaS platforms. Ian has sector experience in FinTech, FMCG, media, retail, food, travel, manufacturing, aerospace and defence. Corporate roles include CIO at Regenersis and Martin-Baker Aircraft.

Ian is an experienced IT Director/CIO with over 25 years of experience at a senior level, much of it in acquiring and bringing smaller businesses up to standard. He has experience across many sectors, including insurance, public sector, logistics and business services. Ian’s goals are to focus investment in line with business strategy, whilst ensuring suppliers are managed and services are properly supported. Ian is working with clients across Kent and Sussex.

John joins the Thames Valley region of Freeman Clarke and is a highly experienced, versatile & results driven Global IT Leader. John has extensive experience across multiple industries and sizes from B2B, B2C to manufacturing, technology and international corporate markets. John demonstrates a collaborative approach to successful IT departmental leadership, engaging with all business stakeholders both internally and externally. He has a proven track record of being able to translate business requirements into tangible, realistic technology deliverables and outcomes. As well as extensive IT knowledge, John is an experienced people and team manager, having managed teams of up to 70 and providing service to over 10,000 users. John lives just outside Oxford and has a first class degree in Chemistry.

John has 20+ years of experience in both management, operations and technical roles having delivered impactful business and customer solutions and technology transformations.  John has built technology teams and has managed the sale and merger of a number of technology centric businesses, having delivered effective technology roadmaps providing innovative products and services with high business and customer impact.

Previous projects include delivering global marketing sites, establishing customer focussed technology cultures, international eCommerce solutions and expanding a market disrupting SaaS business and has held senior technology and business management positions ranging from CIO, IT Solution Director, Head of IT and Operations and Managing Director.

With a desire to drive business change by aligning IT to the business strategy John ensures value is optimised and suppliers are effectively managed.  He has also implemented ERP, managed IT operations and led agile product and development teams delivering multiple online products.

John has worked for start-ups to international medium enterprises within the travel, property, banking, psychometric assessment and training sectors.

In his free time John likes to spend time outdoors running or cycling, having recently competed in marathons and triathlons.

He holds a remote sensing and Geographic Information System PhD from Plymouth University.

A technology and business leader with over 25 years experience of digital transformation, change management, IT department and programme leadership. A proven track record of defining and delivering business and IT strategies, improving operational efficiency and driving digital engagement with customers. Expert at mapping product or business roadmaps to technology strategy and articulation of complex issues to executives. Engaging at both a strategic board level yet able to become hands on when needed.

Julian Price joined Freeman Clark in early 2018. He brings with him more than 20 years’ experience in the technology sector where he has led the development of solutions for a diverse range of organisations across the Retail Banking, Public Safety and Entertainment sectors. Working on behalf of Camelot Group, Microsoft and Compaq Computer Corporation he has built high-performing teams and award-winning solutions across the US, Canada, France and Germany. A subject matter expert in online safety, privacy, consumer protection, and education he has influenced buy-in from cross-functional staff to C-suite leaders. He established Microsoft and MSN as leaders in child and online safety globally. As Chief Technical Officer of the UK’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, Julian collaborated with government agencies, Homeland Security, The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency to design and build technology solutions for a new police force. He was recognised twice with Microsoft’s Circle of Excellence awards presented by Bill Gates himself. Julian’s commitment to shaping technology as a lever for change and business growth started more than two decades ago when he consulted on technology to Compaq Computer Corporation’s clients, Lloyds TSB, Barclays and Natwest. Julian is a native Londoner and currently resides in Hertfordshire where he can be found playing tennis and leading events for his local club.

Mark has over 20 years experience working in software development in both technical and management roles. Mark has worked for SMEs and FTSE 100 companies, held ‘Head of’, Director and CTO level roles, running cross functional teams to deliver mobile, web, and backend systems. Often these teams have been going through significant structural and cultural change, whilst being geographically dispersed. These experiences have lead Mark to value working across organisational silos, to deliver business change, whilst taking accountability for improvements in the Technology team. Developing strategies and tactics that allow the business to move forward in the short term, whilst plotting a path to longer term strategic goals is a challenge that he enjoys.

Lance comes with significant IT leadership and commercial experience having successfully held senior IT leadership and CIO positions, growing global Organisations by empowering their IT.  Previously Global CIO at SThree , FTSE and  ICAP but equally adept at working with startups and SME’s

Ability to hit the ground running and quickly segregate IT into “Run the business”, running high availability services, managing risks and security, and reducing the cost for effective IT, and “Grow the business” which is driving innovation for business growth and the digitalisation roadmap.

Lance describes himself as a Data Driven CIO He has a passion for Technology and a real passion for Data and how data insights can empower your business. “The trick is to harness your data and technology to produce outcomes”.

Les joined Freeman Clarke in 2016, bringing with him extensive business and technical experience gained over 27 years working with major multinational organisations in both the Retail and Energy sectors. As part of the Southern Home Counties Team his client base is equally diverse, shaping strategy and mentoring the in-house IT team for a major law firm in Maidstone and as IT Director of a global healthcare company, is defining the future IT strategy and leading the selection and implementation of a new ERP solution in support of ambitious, international growth objectives. Able to think strategically, Les has a proven track record in delivering high quality, companywide IT solutions and services in complex, global corporate environments and enjoys developing and leading high performing teams in support of business change.

Mark joined Freeman Clarke in early 2020, following over twenty years’ experience in commercial IT leadership roles. He has worked in both privately owned and PE/VC backed businesses, in a number of verticals, primarily Retail, Payments, Logistics and Legal. He is very customer focused – the Retail grounding – and has specific experience in tight cost and budget management, maximising benefit from infrastructure and systems assets, and solving business problems through technology. Keen to embrace technology developments, he was part of the team that launched one of the first retailer ecommerce websites in the UK, and (much) more recently led the team that built the first AI-powered virtual legal assistant.

A problem solver by nature, and a developer and project manager by training, through his career Mark has advised and designed solutions for stakeholders at all levels in business, and can communicate technical strategies and concepts clearly.

Mark is a Chartered IT Professional (CITP).

Mike brings to Freeman Clarke over 20 years of senior IT leadership experience gained within a number of large UK and global businesses from Sky, Easyjet to DX Group. Prior to joining Freeman Clarke Mike was Chief Information Officer at Domestic and General. He is an energetic, results driven director with a strong reputation for delivering top line growth and bottom line returns. He is a proven leader with a strong ability to formulate and deliver a clear and concise strategy along with operational excellence and innovation.

Mike is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the RNLI

Mohan Gharial joined Freeman Clarke in 2019 having previously held senior IT leadership positions in large organisations primarily in the Healthcare, Life Sciences and IT sectors, including GlaxoSmithKline, Abcam, Roche and Wipro. He brings over 30 years of experience, covering IT transformation, IT and Business programme management and service delivery.
He has a proven track record in defining and successfully delivering IT strategies to drive business outcomes and improve operational efficiencies. Mohan has led large global teams, defining and implementing IT operating models and delivering culturally sensitive and sustainable organisational transformations.
Having also worked for a large global systems integrator and service provider, he has particular expertise in driving the best value from outsourcing and offshoring engagements. Outside of work, Mohan is Vice-Chair of a secondary Academy school, a Scout leader and a trustee of a national charity for children with disabilities.

Neil has more than 30 years of technical experience within the private and public sector. With three Director roles under his belt, Neil has set and delivered IT strategies and extensive transformation programmes to either setup new IT functions or turn around underperforming ones. Before moving into leadership roles he held a number of technical and management roles across the whole spectrum of IT including software development, infrastructure and support.

Neil is currently working with Robinsons Brewery, an independent family brewer based in Stockport. Robinsons have been brewing for almost two centuries and own around 260 pubs, inns and hotels across the North West. He is also working as IT Director with Sleeperz Hotels, who have created a range of compact city centre lifestyle hotels around the UK.

Neil joined Freeman Clarke after working as a CTO, CIO and IT Director at a range of companies in both interim and permanent positions. He has worked in Startups, through to mid-side companies going through funding right up to multi-national organisations turning over £500m.  Previously Neil has worked at MyProtein, helping them through to a successful sale to The Hut Group, and SurfControl plc helping them with mergers and acquisitions and eventually the sale of the business to WebSense.  Neil’s skills are broad and cover everything from strategy to systems architecture, software development and transformation projects.  He has also worked in many different market sectors including Cyber Security, Betting, FinTech, leisure and e-commerce in both B2B and B2C environments.

Rich joined Freeman Clarke in 2020 and has over 15 years’ experience as a startup CTO across a wide range of sectors, including transport, e-commerce and retail entertainment technology.

He has most recently worked as a consultant for technology SMEs and provided DD for Gresham House and Octopus Ventures. His expertise is in bridging deep technology, systems and UX design across to the commercial world, helping businesses grow products and customer bases.

Richard works with businesses in the education sector and for charities. He understands each sector and their requirements and how IT can help meet those challenges.

His wide-ranging background — in IT, consulting, and business — means that he can quickly analyse an organisation, develop a strategy and roadmap, and deliver the individual projects.

Richard is adept at sorting out the IT infrastructure — designing processes and plans to enhance revenue, reduce costs, and minimise business risk. He has also developed new software systems in all manner of languages through to delivering cloud-based tools.

Read the most recent client stories where Richard has been working on, PPS Equipment and Queen Alexandra College.

Rob is a technology and innovation specialist combining a career in IT with business and communication skills, to understand clients goals and utilise technology to deliver them.

Rob joined the North West team in 2019 and helps his clients implement new technology to eliminate manual processes, reduce costs and increase sales.

With over 20 years commercial IT experience, Rob has previously set up and managed the IT teams and infrastructure for several SME’s and has also worked in corporate for News International.

In addition to his IT experience, Rob has also spent 6 years as MD of an SME. This provided him with a keen understanding of what business needs technology to deliver, and how IT can add value.

Commercially driven, Rob works to get the most out of IT budgets and ensure projects deliver a return on investment.

Steve is a business-focused IT specialist. He helps organisations align their Information Technology to their business objectives to create a practical, scalable IT strategy.

Steve starts by establishing the current status of the business and its IT investments. He then helps the business to identify the necessary IT improvements to reach its goals, creating an IT Roadmap for Growth. The business can then prioritise its future IT investments to achieve its business goals, and IT expenditure can be clearly linked to business plans. 

Warwick joined Freeman Clarke with over 20 years’ experience in managing complex IT environments at board level. He currently provides IT Director services to engineering consultancy Hydrock group Ltd, renewable energy company Future Biogas and biotech company Immunocore. Prior to joining Freeman Clarke, Warwick worked for companies in Engineering Design, Construction and more recently leading a global multi-vendor outsource for the UK’s largest independent logistics and parcel company TNT Express. Warwick is focussed on driving business value from IT and maximising investment in well-managed, appropriate technology, so SMEs can focus on their core business. Read Immunocore, Future Biogas Client Stories.