Alterian's Board of Directors
Alterian's Board of Directors oversees the running of the company, and draws on the wide experience of the postholders to ensure broad and thorough oversight.
Keith Hamill FCA - Non-Executive Chairman
Appointed July 2000
Keith is Chairman of Tullett Prebon plc, Travelodge Ltd and Heath Lambert Ltd and Deputy Chairman of Collins Stewart plc as well as being a Director of a number of other companies. He is also Deputy Chancellor of Nottingham University. He was previously Finance Director of WH Smith, Forte and United Distillers and was a partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers. Keith has also served on the Accounting Standards Board's Urgent Issues Task Force and the CBI Companies Committee.
David Eldridge - Chief Executive
Appointed July 2000
Prior to founding Alterian, David spent four years in several roles within Royal Dutch Shell Group including the Aviation, Consulting and Distribution divisions, and then spent four years leading corporate development with GB Information Management where he established their marketing services division and led the development and launch of several new products. David established his first company at the age of 14 to market his software which won first prize in the BBC National Schools Software Competition
Michael Talbot - Chief Technology Officer
Appointed July 2000
Mike started his career a game programmer and designer, then a freelance consultant designing and producing multi-media applications, before joining Brann Software as technical director. Since co-founding Alterian in 1997 Mike, in his role as CTO, has been building marketing technology solutions for Alterian and its clients. He is one of the pioneers of column based analytical technology and has designed and built marketing databases for some of the largest companies in the world. Mike is an expert on technology enabled marketing and consults with partners and clients on driving cutting edge, multichannel marketing campaigns with a special focus on the integration of online communication. Mike is responsible for the market vision of the Alterian product range and the technology vision that underpins it. He is an accomplished conference speaker and regular industry commentator.
Timothy McCarthy - Research Director
Appointed July 2000
After working with the first generation of PC-based accounting systems, Tim entered the rapidly expanding world of computer entertainment, developing over 30 games in six years. At the end of this period he joined Ubisoft and subsequently its parent company, Guillemot Informatique, in Paris. After writing automated data protection systems at Iomega in Utah and California, he helped Brann Limited to develop its existing marketing information software.
David Cutler FCA, FCT - Group Finance Director
Appointed July 2000
Experience with Deloitte & Co in London was followed by senior financial posts at NFC, British Leyland, and CompAir. David was Finance Director of London-listed UKO International plc, until its successful sale following a public bid. For 12 years he was Group Finance Director of Emess plc, listed in London and Frankfurt. In addition, for seven years until 1999, he was a member of the supervisory board (Aufsichtsrat) of Frankfurt listed Brilliant AG. From 1998 to 2000 David was a director of ImagoQA Ltd, the leading independent software testing consultancy, guiding the company to a successful private financial sale.
Iain Johnston - Non-Executive Director
Appointed July 2000
Iain is Chief Executive Officer of Loewy Group, a fast growing group of eight highly specialised branding and marketing communications businesses. Previously, he was MD of customer database management start-up, GB Information Management, from its foundation in 1990 to its listed status in 1998, culminating with its being awarded a place on The Independent Top 100 and Virgin Fasttrack 100, and the Financial Times Top 100 Companies of the Future. Formerly a board member of the Direct Marketing Association, Iain has been a non-executive for a number of fast growth marketing and technology businesses, including Event Marketing Solutions, a fast growth experiential marketing business where he is Chairman.
Hugh McCartney - Non-Executive Director
Appointed January 2002
Hugh has over 25 years’ experience in the computer software industry. Currently Chairman and CEO of leading email security company Cloudmark Inc based in San Francisco, California, he previously held sales and general management positions with enterprise and infrastructure software firms in the areas of email management, database management and software configuration management, in North America and Europe. He has also acted as a non-executive Director of companies in both USA and UK.
Alastair Gordon - Non-executive Director
Appointed April 2010
Appointed to the Board in April 2010, Alastair was CFO of SDL plc, a translation software and services company, for ten years until 2008 and remained on the Board until early 2010. Prior to that, he spent ten years with Berisford plc which included three years as CFO for the US operations. His early career was spent as a chartered accountant with Arthur Andersen. Alastair is also non-executive director of Strategic Thought plc, a business focused on enterprise risk software solutions.