David Cutler - Finance Director
Appointed June 2000
After professional training with Deloitte Haskins & Sells in
London, David held senior financial posts at NFC, British Leyland,
and CompAir. Following experience on the board of London Stock
Exchange traded UKO International plc, he was for 12 years, until
1998, group finance director of Emess plc, listed in London and
Frankfurt. In addition, for 7 years, until 1999, he was a member of
the supervisory board (Aufsichtsrat) of Frankfurt listed Brilliant
AG. Since 1998 to 2000 David was a director of ImagoQA Limited, the
leading independent software consultancy which was guided to a
successful private sale in 2000.
Mike Talbot - Chief Technology Officer
Appointed May 1997
Mike started his career as a freelance computer game programmer,
publishing his first title at the age of 15 and going on to create
more than 40 games over a ten-year period. Subsequently, he worked
as a freelance consultant designing and producing multi-media
applications including the broadcast weather graphics system for
Westcountry Television regional news, the guest cabin entertainment
system for the cruise ship P&O Victoria and the on-train
television information system for Heathrow Express. Before joining
Alterian, Mike was founder of and technical director for Brann
Software and the architect of Viper, one of the first desktop
marketing analysis tools.
Tim McCarthy - Research & Development
Director
Appointed May 1997
Having already achieved his A level in pure and applied
mathematics at the age of 15, he configured his school's first
computer, eventually teaching other students (and staff) its
operation. He developed his analytical and statistical computer
skills whilst studying applied mathematics at London's Imperial
College. After working with the first generation of PC based
accounting systems, he 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.
James Eiloart - Senior Vice President Sales & Marketing,
EMEA & Asia-Pacific
Appointed July 2002
James is responsible for Alterian's sales and marketing activities
in all territories outside of The Americas. Before joining
Alterian, James was Director of Strategic Alliances at E.piphany,
where he forged relationships with major Systems Integrators and
resellers around Europe, including Accenture, Deloitte Consulting,
Price Waterhouse Coopers, and Hewlett Packard. Prior to E.piphany,
James worked at Remedy Corporation. After joining as one of the
first few European employees, James spent five years building and
managing Remedy's extensive reseller channel across Europe, the
Middle East and Africa.
Michael Fisher - Senior Vice President Sales &
Marketing, The Americas
Appointed November 2004
Michael is responsible for Alterian's sales and marketing
activities in The Americas. Michael has been a pioneer in
relationship marketing over the past 15 years, building a strong
reputation of leadership, sales growth and customer satisfaction.
Before joining Alterian, Michael served as Vice President and
General Manager of the financial services group at Epsilon, a
leading relationship marketing company. Prior to his tenure at
Epsilon, Michael was Senior Vice President of Sales at DoubleClick
(formerly Protagona Worldwide) for their Marketing Automation
software solutions. Additionally, Michael was instrumental in
developing what is now known as DoubleClick's Ensemble suite for
the banking and insurance industries. Rounding out his experience,
Michael held various sales and consultancy positions at Unisys
Corporation, a leading global technology and services company.
Joseph Fuller - Chief Operating Officer
Appointed February 2001
In his role as COO of Alterian, Joe is responsible for professional
services, managed services and technical support as well as
business operations. Before being appointed COO in 2008, Joe
held the roles of CFO, Alterian Inc, VP Business Operations and
General Manager, Alterian Inc. Prior to joining Alterian, Joe
was Vice President of Finance and Administration for Open Port
Technology, Inc., an IP messaging software technology company. Joe
was responsible for raising more than $58 million in funding and
actively growing from a small fax software company to a leading
provider of IP messaging solutions. Before his tenure at Open Port,
Joe was Vice President of Operations for Crown Mortgage Company,
the largest independent mortgage banker in the State of Illinois.
Joe has also held management positions at CCC Information Services
and Information Kinetics, Inc.
Bob Hale - Senior Vice President, Corporate
Development
Appointed May 2006
Bob Hale brings over 20 years of direct marketing domain
expertise and enterprise software achievement. As SVP Corporate
Development, Bob is responsible for the company's strategic
partnerships, and mergers and acquisitions, transitioning from his
previous role as VP of Business Development leading Alterian's
digital market focus. Prior to Alterian, Bob helped evolve Dynamics
Direct Inc. from a production focused email marketing agency to an
innovative enterprise email platform provider. By directing their
sales and marketing activities, Bob was responsible for innovating
the overall message, packaging, partnering, and pricing that
allowed Dynamics Direct to maintain its dramatic growth and
sustained differentiation. Before his tenure with Dynamics Direct
Bob was CEO of RioLabs, Inc. where he started and established the
company as a leader in an emerging space before being acquired by
Quovadx, Inc. in 2003. Prior to RioLabs, Bob was President of
idCentric, the Data Warehousing and Data Quality division of
Firstlogic, Inc., now part of Business Objects. While at idCentric,
he lead the shift to data quality solutions and the formation of
the idCentric division. Bob established it as the leading data
quality vendor in under 12 months, according to industry analyst
MetaGroup.
Chris Nolan - Senior Vice President Software
Development
Appointed Feb 2006
Chris is responsible for all product development activities for
Alterian. He achieved a first class honors degree in physics
and went on to obtain a PhD in neural networks and genetic
algorithms at Birmingham University. Chris started his career as a
developer with Protagona Worldwide, a campaign management company,
and rose to lead their product development team. As Technical
Director at DoubleClick, Chris led development, QA, technical
authoring, support, consulting and training teams in New York,
India, and the UK, developing, integrating and supporting campaign
management and email delivery solutions to blue chip organizations
such as Acxiom, HSBC, Orbitz, AOL and Centrica.
John Fennell - Group Operations Director
John started his career in Business Operations for Oracle UK and
has amassed more than a decade of experience in running the
commercial and internal operations for software companies in the
UK, US and Middle East. John established his career with
Mediasurface as Operations Manager and subsequently Operations
Director, supporting the company through significant restructure
and regeneration before a floatation on the London AIM market and
the acquisition of the highly successful Content Management company
Immediacy Ltd. John is the operations authority for Alterian,
overseeing all territories and lines of business. John is
ultimately responsible for commercial operations, legal counsel,
business intelligence, systems and IT and due process and his role
is key to ensuring that Alterian continues to deliver market
leading products in its sector.