Kate Wood - Keynote - Culture-As-A-Service Expert

Kate Wood provides culture as a service to multiple organisations, helping them transform their employee engagement strategy to improve business performance. Harnessing what worked in her role as Culture Director for Chess, she galvanised the 120 million pound (550 people /7 sites) turnover Technology Business from 63rd to 1st, in the Sunday Times Top 100 Companies to Work for in the UK and retained their place in the list for 10 years.

Greg Orme - Keynote - Author, The Human Edge

Author of The Human Edge, which won Business Book of the Year 2020 – Greg Orme talks about the human qualities that become more valuable as tech develops and the changes 2020 brought  to IT processes

Mathieu Correard - Presale Manager - Centreon

Mathieu’s international experience, extensive background in software, hardware and services has delivered a long track record of success.  He strongly believes to build a strong and successful presale team you need to be an integral part of the salesman team but not a salesperson. But be business relevant and technically knowledgeable, and remain close to your audience.
During his career, Mathieu is proud to have worked for companies that pay particular attention to customer experience and partnership. He has built world-class projects in engineering organizations at companies such as Centreon, Oracle, Schneider Electric, Esker, Storage Tek and Front Porch Digital.

Graham Lane - Managing Director - Cheeky Munkey

Graham is the Managing Director of Cheeky Munkey, an IT services company based in Hertfordshire. Graham was Vice Chair of Oaklands College and Board Member of Hertfordshire’s Local Enterprise Partnership as well as holding several other positions with not for profit organisations. Graham is now  Chair of Governors at Redbourn Primary school, a board Director with Herts for Learning, a board Director for Wenta, a not for profit business organisation, and Chair of Training Together, a joint venture between West Herts College and Oaklands College.

Sam Callaghan - Director of International Sales - ConnectWise

Quinton has a proven track record across many skillsets over the course of his 10 years of experience in the IT industry. Day to day he is leading a team working pragmatically and methodically towards turning targets into reality. He is truly passionate about being able to provide the best-in-class security offerings for our partners and when he’s not speaking all things cybersecurity you might find him boating in the Solent or watching his son scoring tries in Rugby 7s

Ed Winfield - Director of Global Partnerships - Content Guru

Edward Winfield is Director of Global Partnerships at Content Guru, a global leader in cloud contact centre and customer experience solutions. A veteran in the SaaS and technology space, Edward has over 20 years’ experience in the telecommunications space, which he leverages to create lasting partnerships, deliver cutting-edge solutions that anticipate evolving customer needs, and to help businesses to create outstanding customer experiences through seamless engagement and data-driven insights.

Greg Jones - Business Development Director, EMEA - Datto

As Business Development Director, EMEA, Greg is responsible for expanding and driving the success of Datto’s partner program and unique MSP ecosystem across the region. With over 20 years of experience in the IT sector, Greg has extensive knowledge in expertly managing the development of technology and business processes.

Prior to joining Datto in October 2019, Greg was CTO for a large managed service provider in the Northwest of England. Greg started his management career in IT for the public sector after securing a senior IT management position within the local authority, and later went on to private consultancy for central government.

Scott Parker - EMEA Sales Representative - Dropsuite

Scott brings 5 years IT sector sales and SaaS Distribution experience to Dropsuite.  His focus on the MSP Market for the past three years has led to Scott heading up Dropsuite’s channel efforts in EMEA.

Ridley Ruth - COO - Dropsuite

Ridley brings 25 years of industry knowledge to Dropsuite. Previously, he was as Vice President Sales and Marketing and later General Manager of StopTheHacker, a leading website security company (acquired by CloudFlare). Ridley has prior experience in sales, marketing, business development, operations, customer support, website security and forensic data duplication.

Mitesh Chauhan - Global Product Director, Cloud Security Services - Entrust

Mitesh has worked at Entrust since January 2021, and previously worked at Digital Reality. He's worked within product management for over 15 years. He is an entrepreneurial product leader with in-depth understanding and passion for delivering high-value products and services positioned around Cloud, and hosting services and network services, to a global marketplace. He is highly strategic with commercial vision; and a proven track record leading multi-million transformation programmes. He develops innovative products and services, delivering solutions to meet complex commercial needs.

Piers Wilson - Head of Product Management - Huntsman Security

Piers Wilson is Head of Product Management for Huntsman Security, responsible for the strategic development of their security moniting, threat detection and security intelligence solutions.

Part of the security industry for 25 years, he has worked with organisations at a high level and provided strategic input and thought leadership on current and future security trends such as threat intelligence, security operations, automated threat resolution and ransomware prevention.  He is a regular speaker at conferences or industry forums and has written numerous articles and white papers.

Piers also sits on the board of the Chartered Institute for Information Security.  He was previously in the senior team leading the cyber security practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Head of Technical Assurance at Insight Consulting (part of Siemens).  He holds an MSc in Information Security from Royal Holloway University of London.

Andy Horn - CEO - IntraLAN

Andy Horn is CEO at IntraLAN, an IT managed service provider and technology as a service specialist.

Andy has over 20 years’ experience of strong sales-focused leadership across all areas including telecoms, data centre, hosted and managed services, security, cloud and SaaS.

Prior to IntraLAN he held positions as VP at CBRE DCS leading the sales and marketing of the Romonet AI/ML SaaS services as well as leadership positions at COLT, Telecity, Easynet and Exodus.

Ian Luckett -  IT & MSP Business Growth Expert - IT Experts

Ian Luckett is a multi-talented IT & MSP business growth expert with over 20 years' experience as a mentor, coach and business strategist. Over the years of orking at various blue-chip companies holding a variety of senior positions, no one fits the profile better than Ian to help you build a profitable IT & MSP business by increasing your sales, productivity and profits.

Alex Ford - Sales Director EMEA - IT Glue

Alex Ford has been a leader in the IT channel for the best part of a decade, only pausing to spend a year in Chile teaching English in 2010. Alex has built a considerable network and has a wealth of experience, having been an integral part of building the EMEA Channel at Datto before IT Glue. A highly knowledgeable and passionate channel expert, Alex has been part of IT Glue EMEA since its inception and continues to lead the team in his capacity as Sales Director EMEA.

Alan Davis - SVP & General Manager EMEA - Kaseya

With over 30 years of experience in executive management roles within customer-focused, technical and time sensitive environments Alan is a seasoned expert in the I.T. Channel. Alan is a specialist in building multi-disciplinary teams for global deployment, and has a breadth of experience in utilising of resources to maximise efficiency. Having spent the past 13.5 years steering Kaseya in EMEA to success, Alan offers invaluable advice, anecdotal experience and predictions for countering the most concerning MSP challenges.

Adam Zoldan - Director - Knight Corporate Finance

Adam Zoldan is a founder and director of Knight Corporate Finance, a leading boutique advisory firm that specialises in advising entrepreneurs and business owners in the technology, IT and Comms industry. Knight has completed 130 deals in the sector advising on acquisitions, fund raising and sales of leading businesses across the channel.

Chris Brightwell - Sales Engineer - LogicMonitor

With over 20 years of experience working with global leading edge technology vendors., Chris has a wealth of experience helping customers to utilise technology for the benefit of their business, to achieve greater accountability, operational efficiency and profitability. While at LogicMonitor he has enabled numerous customers to know more, see more and do more through increased observability and understanding of how monitoring can improve all areas of their business operations.

Alex Quilter - VP, Product Management - N-Able

Alex Quilter is a vice president of product management for the N-able security portfolio. He brings nearly two decades of technical product management and engineering experience across security and cloud services to his current role. Before working as vice president of product management for security, Alex was a senior director of product management, focusing on Backup for N-able. Prior to N-able, Alex was a director of product management for Tanium, where he focused on the security hygiene product line. Before this, Alex held multiple product management leadership roles, including director positions for Cisco and Qualsys, as well as senior manager roles at nCircle Network Security and HP software. Alex kicked off his career as a network engineer before rising to leadership positions as an engineering manager. Alex holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Utah and a master’s degree in software engineering management from Carnegie Mellon University.  

Tim Pitcher - VP of World Wide Sales - Nebulon

Tim Pitcher is the Vice President of WW Sales at Nebulon. With over 30 years of experience, Tim has held executive sales roles at various startups and companies worldwide. Most recently, Tim served as the VP of WW Sales for the Cloud Infrastructure Business Unit at NetApp. Tim has helped lead two storage startups to successful acquisitions, the most recent as the VP International Sales at SolidFire, helping lead and ultimately run the company's $870M acquisition by NetApp in 2016. And prior to that as the VP of International Sales at 3PAR, joining prior to its acquisition in 2010 by HP.

Malcom Orekoya - Chief Technical Officer - Netutils

Malcolm is involved in managing support, professional services and pre sales consultancy activities of the entire technical team. Whilst continuously reviewing technology and the threat landscape, evaluating innovative and best of breed security vendors that align to our business strategy and product portfolio, Malcolm takes a consultative approach and advises on specialist networking, security and service management requirements for our customers.

David Devine - Partner Program Manager - OVH Cloud

David Devine is OVHcloud’s Partner Program Manager for Northern Europe. In this role, he is responsible for business development in the channel across system integrators, value added resellers, managed service providers and consultancies. His key focus is to support partners create and implement a successful strategy to expand their OVHcloud portfolio.

David has over 15 years’ experience working in the channel for multiple channel resellers. Prior to joining OVHcloud, he held various senior marketing, product and business development roles, playing an active part in successfully shaping and growing the business.

Michael Breeze - EMEA Director of Channel - Pax8

As EMEA Director of Channel at Pax8, Michael drives strategic initiatives to increase its presence within the EMEA IT channel. Michael is responsible for delivering the award-winning Pax8 partner program to new markets, expanding partner enablement programs globally, and building partnerships throughout the IT community. Under his leadership, Pax8 empowers international partners to achieve success with cloud technology through its advanced marketplace of innovative solutions.

In his career spanning over 20 years, Michael has helped vendors, MSPs, and IT solution providers gain a competitive advantage and achieve scalable growth. Before Pax8, he spent time at Datto, helping them become an international market leader. Michael holds a B.A. in Business and is a chartered marketer with the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Michael enjoys spending time with his fiancé and two young children, traveling to festivals in his VW camper, or attending rugby tournaments.

Phylip Morgan - Chief Channel Officer - Pax8

As Chief Channel Officer of Pax8 UK, Phylip provides leadership, guidance, and support to successfully extend the company’s key channel and marketing objectives to UK markets. He develops, plans, and executes strategic initiatives that drive the company’s channel growth and exposure in the EMEA regions. Through Phylip’s efforts, Pax8 is reaching global partners and leading the digital transformation worldwide.

Phylip has spent over 30 years helping various technology companies expand globally and achieve significant success. He has led several companies as Chairman and Director and founded nine of his own, empowering organizations to become operationally efficient and effective through technology. Phylip holds an M.A. in Missional Leadership from Bangor University, is the Pastor and Co-Founder of Calon Church, and sits on the board for several companies and non-profits. He enjoys working with small business owners and spending time with his wife and three daughters.

David Ellis - Vice President, Security and Mobility Solutions - Europe - Tech Data

Ellis oversees the expansion of Tech Data’s portfolio of innovative security offerings, as well as the in-country dedicated security team investments across Europe. Cybersecurity is a key focus for Tech Data as a part of our strategy for next-generation technologies and Ellis is responsible for growth and innovation in today’s fragmented and highly complex security market. His key objectives are to ensure that our MSP and channel partners in Europe benefit from an increasingly diverse, innovative and differentiated portfolio of security solutions, and that we support them to accelerate growth with the right go-to-market tools and solution enablement plans that deliver true business outcomes for their customers. Ellis’ security and associated services experience comes from previous roles at Exclusive Group, Arrow ECS, COMPUTERLINKS, and Unipalm.

Danny Jenkins - CEO - Threatlocker

Danny Jenkins is the CEO & Co-Founder of ThreatLocker, an Orlando-based cybersecurity firm providing zero-trust endpoint security. Danny is a leading expert in cybersecurity with over two decades of experience in building and securing corporate networks, including many roles on red teams and blue teams. He is dedicated to educating industry professionals about the latest cyber threats and frequently speaks on the topics of ransomware, zero trust, and zero-day vulnerabilities. Before taking the reins at ThreatLocker, Danny co-founded MXSweep, a global provider of email and internet security SaaS applications based in Dublin, Ireland, that sold exclusively through the channel. MXSweep later went on to be sold to J2. Danny was also the CEO at Sirrustec, specializing in whitelabeled channel delivered email security. Sirrustec Sold to Censornet in 2014.