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Executive Team

Ian Flanagan
Group CEO

Steve Evans
Group CFO

Kirstie Pilatti
Group Chief Product Officer

Andy Reeves
Group CTO

Rob Shanks
Head of Innovation

Jonny Allbut
Head of Sales

 

Operations

Andrew Mathewson
Voly Yachting CRM Manager

Olivia Donelon
Client Relationship Manager

Rob Bailey
Senior Client Relationship Manager

Molly Hamman-Smith
Client Support Administrator

Aidan Hurley
Client Relationship Manager

Katie Salisbury
Client Support Administrator

Leandros Kaminas
Client Relationship Manager

Alessandro Falcini
Program Onboarding Manager

Eisha Tahir
Program Administrator

Aidan Stephenson
Partner Relationship Manager

Belal Ahmad
Program Coordinator

Emily Mee
Program Coordinator

Amandine Hubau
Group Head of Training & Implementation

Ilaria Zagni
Junior Implementation Coordinator

Georgia Maddocks
Client Trainer

Amnah Razzaque
Implementation Administrator

Annastasia Gregg
Client Trainer

Joe McBride
Implementation Manager

People & Risk

Cate Crawford
Head of People

Wesley Evans
Internal CRM Product Lead

Joanna Clegg
People Business Partner

 

Sales & Marketing

Ewan Quince
Head of Strategic Growth

 

Stuart Turnbull-Smith
Senior Client Success Manager

Jonny Allbut
Head of Sales

 

Elle Ahmed
Client Success Manager

Andy Howell
Head of Yachting

 

Victoria Thomson
Senior Client Success Manager

Helen Brooke
Head of US Business Development

 

Henry Featherstone
Head of Treasury Sales

James Davis
Treasury and Payments Executive

Erfjen Ceka
Treasury and Payments Executive

 

Angela Delaney
Head of Marketing

Cameron Jones
Graphic Designer

Mia Tinsley
Marketing & Graphic Design Executive

Harrison Lyons
Business Development Executive

Amelia Francis-Hill
Executive Assistant to Group CEO

Holly Chatterton
Office Administrator

 
 

Finance

Steve Evans
Group CFO

Isabel Rodrigues
Assistant Management Accountant

Matthew Denman
Group Financial Controller

Samuel Everett
Assistant Finance Business Partner

Aisha Patel
Finance Manager

Sarah Collinge
Billing Clerk

Elliot Evans
Management Accountant

Alexis Heald
Management Accountant

Product & Technology

Andy Reeves
Group CTO

Andy Graham
Scrum Master

Vu Doan
Software Engineer

Ethan Allmand
Dev Team Support Officer

Rob Shanks
Head of Innovation

Corey McCahon
Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Shirleen Kneppers
Software Engineer

Will Vachon
Software Engineer

Jack Macnamee
Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Liliya Voevodina
Software Developer

Ramesh Seeralan
Software Engineer

Dariusz Franczak
Software Engineer

Junior Orji
Manual QA Software Engineer

Kirstie Pilatti
Group Chief Product Officer

David Shonn
Junior Product Owner

Jenny Allton-Twist
Product Owner

Reuben Dongre
UX/UI Designer

Dave Kinsella
Product Owner

 

George Swain
Product Analyst

Joe Loftus
Head of Data

Narsimhadri Medabalimi
Azure Data Engineer

Ben Wright
Data Associate

 

Board of Directors

Simon is a serial entrepreneur turned investing Chairman in the marine and payments sectors. He led Inchcape Shipping Services through an MBO and subsequent sale, founded and sold Optimi Global (payment solutions to marine and media sectors) and has subsequently Chaired numerous PE backed manufacturing and services businesses such as Griffin Global, TGE Marine and Cathelco.

Simon currently serves as a NED to Vanguard Logistics and as Chairman of two Magenta Investments – The North American Guitar Company and Voly Global.

He is a past president of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers and a Council Member of Mission to Seafarers and remains an active angel investor.

Simon Morse
Chairman

 

Tom co-founded Magenta in 2008 and has been directly involved with its investments in Tag, Pure Gym, Halo Insurance, JoJo Maman Bebe, Trustpay Global and Fastpayhotels. In 2012, he co-founded Viva Gym and led the group’s Spanish business from start up to 17 sites by 2016, during which time a majority stake was sold to Bridges Fund Management.

Tom has nearly 20 years of SME investment experience across a number of industries including leisure, media, consumer, finance and business services. Prior to Magenta, Tom worked at Deutsche Bank eVentures, Bridges Fund Management and MidOcean Partners.

Tom has an MA in Philosophy Politics and Economics from Oxford University and an MBA from INSEAD where he was a Louis Franck scholar.

Tom Matthews
Non-Executive Director

 

Chase co-founded Magenta Partners in 2008 and has been directly involved in with its investments in iPrism, JoJo Maman Bebe, 333 Solar, Halo Insurance and Eaton Gate Vigilis.  In 2012, he co-founded Viva Gym and led the growth of Viva Gym’s South African business from start-up to a 7-site operation with over 100 employees in 4 cities.

Prior to Magenta, Chase was a Director with MidOcean Partners, a pan-European mid-market private equity firm, and worked at Deutsche Bank in both corporate finance advisory and venture capital roles.  Chase has experience on investments ranging from pure equity venture capital through to mid-market (£150m EV) buyouts and large cap (£2bn) advisory mandates, with a focus on Western Europe.

Chase has an MA in Spanish and Business Studies from the University of Edinburgh and an MBA from INSEAD where he was an IFS Henry Grunfeld scholar.

A. Chase Emson
Non-Executive Director

 

Steve Evans
Group CFO

 

To establish its specialist platform for the music industry, Voly has appointed Neil Rodford, the Founder and former CEO of leading management company YMU, to its board. With a remit to oversee Voly Yachting and Voly Music’s strategy.

Neil became CEO at YMU in 2001 from his previous position of Managing Director at Fulham Football Club, leading a management buy-out of the company in 2009. During his tenure he completed over 40 acquisition & sales processes, and under his stewardship YMU went on to become the leading UK company in its sector increasing its enterprise value by over 500% before selling in 2018 for c£130m.

Neil Rodford
Voly Yachting & Voly Music Board Member & Head of Entertainment