Management Team

  • Shaun Davey, Chief Executive Officer

    Shaun joined IPL in 1984 after completing a PhD in computer control at the University of Bath. During the 1980's Shaun worked on a number of major software projects in the Defence, Energy and Utilities sectors. He became a member of IPL's executive management team in 1990 when he was appointed as IPL's Software Technology Manager. Shaun played a major role in the development of IPL's software testing products business and was responsible for the development of the company's QMS and supporting infrastructure.

    He has been responsible for the management and successful delivery of several of IPL's largest software projects. In 2005 Shaun became Sales and Marketing Director and was responsible for rebuilding the company's sales function and starting IPL's transformation into a sales-led company. He was instrumental in IPL's successful 2008 MBO and as a result is now CEO. Shaun is totally committed to driving the business to deliver its potential.

  • Jon Carter, Finance Director

    Jon joined the Board of IPL in September 2007. Jon trained and qualified as a Chartered Accountant within the Corporate Finance and Corporate Recovery practices of PWC. After three years as a Regional Commercial Director within Compass Group PLC, Jon spent six years with a private equity backed manufacturing business.

    In this period, the management team successfully completed a leveraged buy out and three years later, an exit to a private equity backed group. Jon's main contribution after joining to IPL has been to complete the refinancing of the business through the Vendor assisted MBO, and will now be focussed on delivering the group's strategy to grow shareholder value.

  • John Davey, Operations Director

    John is IPL's Director of Operations for the Defence, Telecommunications and Emergency Services sectors. He is also the Director responsible for Security. John was appointed to the Board in 2005 and was part of the team that successfully completed the MBO in 2008. Previously he had been part of the senior management team since 2000 as IPL's Divisional Manager for the Telecoms sector.

    John came to Bath in 1980 to study Physics at the University of Bath and, upon successful completion of his degree, he joined IPL in 1983. Initially, he worked in various technical and managerial roles successfully delivering of a number of high profile projects within the Defence, Telecoms and Transport sectors. He later joined ViewStar/Mosaix working as a Principal Workflow Consultant returning to IPL after 2½ years.

  • Jim Thomas, Operations Director

    Jim is IPL's Director of Operations for Government, Transport and Finance. He was appointed to the Board in 2005 having previously been a member of the senior management team as Head of Consultancy Services. He was part of the management team that recently completed an MBO. As Head of Consultancy Services he was responsible for a long track record of highly successful consultancy projects for clients across a range of sectors including the Public Sector and Financial Services.

    Prior to this he gained considerable hands-on experience of project management and complex systems design, development and integration. Jim graduated from Bristol University with a degree in Mathematics, before gaining a PhD also at Bristol.

  • Carl Edgar, Sales Director

    Carl is an accomplished sales professional with over 15 years of experience in high value IT solution sales. Carl re-joined IPL in July 2008 to take over the Sales Director role from Shaun Davey. Previously, Carl was one of IPL's top performing business development consultants focussing on the telecoms sector before leaving to take up senior sales management roles, initially with Tertio (now Evolving Systems) and then Cartesian.

    Carl combines a proven sales track record with a solid technical background. He graduated from Kings College, London with a degree in Electronic Engineering and spent the early part of his career as an Engineer Officer in the Royal Navy before moving into the commercial sector.

  • Mike Johnson, Commercial Director

    Mike co-founded IPL in 1979 and, for most of the next 26 years, was responsible for all sales, admin, finance, quality and commercial activities within the company.

    Following the successful MBO in April 2008, Mike became Executive Group Chairman with the intention of moving to non-executive chairmanship after a comprehensive handover programme has been completed.

  • Steve Alexander, Operations Manager

    Steve joined IPL's senior management team in 2006 and is responsible for the commercial and operational management of IPL's customers in the Finance and Government sectors.

    Steve joined IPL in 1987 and has performed a variety of technical and management roles on many high profile projects in telecoms, finance and defence industries. Project highlights have included the requirements management and design of an innovative operator services platform to Cable & Wireless; managing the introduction of chargeable bundles to Orange pre-pay customers; and managing a number of regulatory and cost savings projects at Nationwide.

  • John Cruickshank, Operations Manager

    Following 15 years of service in the RAF, John joined IPL in 1985. He has carried out a wide range of roles for IPL and has been responsible for the timely delivery of some of the largest projects undertaken by the company in sectors such as Defence, Telecommunications and Finance.

    John's extensive practical experience is backed up with both an MBA and accredited PRINCE2 Practitioner training. He was appointed as a Divisional Manager in 2005 and his responsibilities are mainly in the Defence and Emergency Services sectors.

  • Emma Goodwin, Operations Manager

    Emma joined IPL in 1988 after graduating from Bath University with a degree in Mathematics. Until recently she worked in variety of technical and project management roles, predominantly in the telecommunications sector.

    Having successfully delivered several high profile projects, Emma joined the senior management team as a divisional manager during the recently completed MBO. She is now responsible for ensuring successful service delivery to a number of customers in the Telecoms, Broadcast & Media sector.

  • Barry Savell, Operations Manager

    Barry joined IPL's senior management team in 2000 and is responsible for parts of IPL's defence, telecoms and broadcast sectors, and IPL's medical devices business.

    Barry is a Chartered Engineer with 18 years of hands-on software engineering experience; he has been involved in successful technical projects in areas such as defence, industrial control, railway systems and telecommunications, taking roles from design and development through to project and subcontract management. He joined IPL in 1982, after completing his degree in Physics at the University of Bath.

  • Chris Bradley, Head of Business Consulting

    Chris has spent almost 30 years in the Information management field, working for blue-chip organisations in Data Management Strategy, Master Data Management, Metadata Management, Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence. Graduating in 1979 Chris worked for the MoD (Navy), Volvo, Thorn EMI (as Head of Information Management), Readers Digest Inc (as UK CIO), and Coopers and Lybrand Management Consultancy where he established and ran the International Data Management practice.

    Joining IPL in 1997, he ran major international Information management projects including the largest Data Management strategy undertaken in Europe.

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