Management Team

Phil started his ICT career at IBM and for the last 20 years has held a number of executive management positions in IT and Telecoms solution companies with a particular focus on Service Management. His main contribution has been the development of new product markets and international expansion. Phil holds a number of engineering qualifications in computer science and telecoms and also a MBA.

Mark has served as CFO for IBS AB, and Paris listed Hubwoo SA, where he served initially as CFO and then as CEO. Prior to this, he was CFO at Atempo, London listed Sherwood International and Converge Inc. He has also held senior finance positions with Baan, Attachmate, and Sun Microsystems after qualifying as a Chartered Accountant. Mark has a BSc in Electronic Engineering.

Gary’s vision for telecoms solutions and his determination to embrace and evolve telecoms industry standards has enabled the company to remain on the leading edge of market evolution. He is a regular contributor to industry white papers, forums and speaking engagements. Gary studied at two UK Technical Colleges to gain general and ICT engineering qualifications.

Kevin has an engineering management background while serving in the British Merchant Navy. For the last 20 years he has been in international sales with particular expertise of the emerging markets. Kevin is also a seasoned corporate account manager and managed some of SUN Microsystems largest customers.

Peter has over 20 years of experience in the telecoms industry. Most recently as the Director of Advanced Systems Engineering at PAETEC, Peter’s responsibilities included the development and implementation of next generation systems. Prior to PAETEC, Peter held engineering and operational management positions at US LEC and Frontier Communications. Peter holds a BA in Mathematics from SUNY at Potsdam.

Having worked in both client and agency environments, James draws on more than 17 years of specialist business-to-business and technology marketing experience. In addition to his career in consultancies such as Metia, Open Sky, RCA, WFCA and Deep Red James has worked in-house; notably as Global Marketing Director for TuringSMI and more recently, as Marketing Director for the Visual Communications line-of-business at Dimension Data.

Keith has some 20 years of operational management experience across a diverse range of industries. His experience includes particular expertise in implementing system and methodology based approaches to operational delivery. This has provided SMI Telecoms with a distinct market advantage through operational efficiency and effectiveness.