Paul Nichols

Chief Executive Officer

Paul Nichols is Kewill's chief executive officer. Paul received an Economics honours degree from Brunel University in 1978. In his early years in the IT industry, Paul held sales and business management positions in International Computers Ltd (ICL) and Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). In 1994 he joined Data Sciences Ltd as Executive General Manager for the Commercial and Financial Services business. In 1997 DSL was acquired by IBM and Paul became a director of IBM Global Services in EMEA with responsibility for the Banking and Financial Services industry. In 1999 Paul was appointed as President and CEO of Logica Inc the North American subsidiary of Logica plc. Paul joined Kewill as CEO in August 2002 and is a member of the Board of Directors.

Guy Millward

Group Finance Director

Guy Millward ACA was appointed finance director in November 2002. He began his career with Ernst & Young before moving, in 1993, to GE Information Services (now GXS), a division of the US conglomerate General Electric. At GE he held a number of roles including UK Finance director. He joined Kewill in January 2000 and held the position of Group Financial Controller.

Evan Puzey

Chief Marketing Officer

With over fifteen years experience in supply chain, Evan has assisted enterprises in more than 30 countries, across 5 continents, with their supply chain initiatives. Originally a demand forecaster and planner for Castrol in the Asia Pacific region, Evan moved to a solution implementation role with Mercia (Supply Chain Planning) and then progressed to sales, pre-sales, marketing and product management roles with Mercia and then Finmatica (Supply Chain Management). For the last 4 years, Evan has been with Kewill Systems plc and currently heads the Global Marketing and Product Management Teams, managing Kewill's suite of supply chain execution and global trade management solutions. An Australian Evan now resides in the UK.

Iain Bishop

Chief Technology Officer

Iain Bishop was appointed Chief Technology Officer in May 2006. He has broad experience in Software Engineering and Technology gained over more than 20 years. Iain was Director of Research and Development for Systems Union, a public ERPII company with 20,000 customers in over 190 countries. He has also run his own consultancy assisting companies with offshore outsourcing to India, China and Vietnam, served as VP Software Development for Telecoms company Servista Ltd and was Technical Director for software house Management Science Ltd.

Europe

Jacquie Boast

Chief Operating Officer

Jacquie has over 20 years of marketing and general management experience within the IT industry, Jacquie has successfully founded two technology solutions companies. In 1989 she formed Database Management Sciences (DMS) and quickly grew the organization to a £5m company that was acquired by Lotus in 1993. Following this success Jacquie formed New Millennium Technology Plc (NMT), a company focusing on providing IT solutions to the general insurance industry. Jacquie left NMT to join Kewill in 2001.

Ron W.P. Vollebregt

Chief Strategy Officer, Trade & Logistics

Ron began his career in 1973 in the ICT sector. In 1984 he became Managing Director of Ucoms which developed solutions for trade and transportation companies. From 1993 Ron was Managing Director of Logas Logistics Application Software BV in Zwijndrecht which was acquired in 1999 by DCS Group Plc in London. He was the Managing Director there until the end of 2000. From October 2002 he has been the Managing Director of Interchain Holding which in November 2005 was acquired by Kewill.

Ron has experience in investment management with Synergia and Auxin Invest and also as an advisor and non Executive for ICT investment companies like Moniforce BV.

Wolfgang Schwab

Chief Strategy Officer, Customs 

Wolfgang started his career working in IT in the insurance industry. In 1985, he founded Computersoftware für Fachanwendungen (CSF), a company focused on the development of software to provide electronic customs clearance in Germany. Within 20 years, CSF became the market leader in the sector and employed 80 people across 4 offices in Germany and Switzerland. In 2006, CSF was acquired by Kewill and Wolfgang remained as the Chief Operating Officer for Kewill CSF. In April 2008, Wolfgang was appointed to his current role of Chief Strategy Officer for Customs.

Americas

Mike Dolan

Chief Operating Officer

Mike joined Kewill from Mapics, a global provider of ERP, CRM, PLM and Supply Chain Solutions to the manufacturing industry where he served as senior vice president and general manager of Worldwide Operations. He also served as vice president of Americas Operations and vice president and general manager of International Operations during his tenure there. Before joining Mapics he was President and CEO of Thru-Put Technologies, a software company that aided manufacturers streamline the flow of materials through a supply chain. Prior to Thru-Put, Dolan held management positions with Baan, Consilium, and ASK, Inc. Dolan received a Bachelors of Science in Economics degree from St. Bonaventure University.

Ken Halle

Chief Strategy Officer, Trade & Logistics

Ken joined Kewill (formerly TradePoint Systems) (operating under the name BSR) in 1976 as the first trainer after teaching at the high school level for two years. Ken has a BS in Business Administration from UNH and a Secondary Teaching Certificate from Plymouth State College. During his tenure with this company, Ken has worked approximately 10 years in all service areas before moving on to spend 10 years in the sales area. In 1999, Ken became US COO responsible for all operational and sales areas of the business. In 2005, he took over the trade and logistics operations for the UK and Netherlands as well. In April 2008, Ken was appointed to his current role of Chief Strategy Officer for Trade & Logistics.

Asia

Wong Sing Lam

Chief Operating Officer

Mr Wong graduated with an honours degree from the Nanyang University in 1977. In Oct 1977 he started his career with Singapore Airlines (SIA) and was involved in the set up of the Airlines Cargo Reservation and Operation System. Mr Wong left to set up IPACS in 1983. He pioneered the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) technology for the Singapore Trade and Customs Declaration and developed software catering to the Freight and Transport industry. Under his leadership, IPACS was among the top 50 privately held companies to receive the Singapore Enterprise 50 Award for four consecutive years from 1995 to 1998. Mr Wong made significant moves into China and is commonly known to be one of the early Singapore entrepreneurs who has successfully ventured into the Chinese market. Kewill announced the acquisition of IPACS e-Solutions (S) Pte Ltd (“IPACS e-Solutions”), a division of IPACS Asia Pte Ltd in February 2007.

Mr Wong served as a council member of the Singapore Federation of Computer Industry from 1997-1998. He also served as a Council Member of Network China from 2001 – 2006.