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.

David Gibbon - Chief Financial Officer

David joined Kewill as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in January 2011 from Atex, where he had spent the previous five years as CFO. While at Atex, revenues doubled and profits grew five-fold as the company established itself as the international market leader in its sector and David also successfully oversaw a number of key acquisitions which contributed toward the successful transformation of the business. Prior to being CFO at Atex, David was CFO at Tertio Holdings Ltd from 1998 to 2002, during which time he managed the financial and legal aspects of the company’s MBO backed by Apax and Advent International. Following the demerger of the business in 2002, David moved to be CFO of Tertio Telecoms Ltd before it was successfully sold in 2004 to NASDAQ-listed Evolving Systems Inc. Prior to this, David was Finance Director of Graseby Medical Limited and continued with the business following the acquisition of Graseby plc by Smiths Group plc. David also spent 10 years with Caradon plc ending as Controller of Caradon Inc., a $1.0bn revenue division based in the US. During his time at Caradon, the business grew revenues from £200m to £2.0bn. David qualified as a chartered accountant in 1984.

Jacquie Boast - Chief Operating Officer, EMEA

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 organisation 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 and has had a number of senior management roles, including running the UK business before becoming Chief Operating Officer for EMEA in April 2008.

Mike Dolan - Chief Operating Officer, Americas

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.

Evan Puzey - Chief Operating Officer, Asia

With nearly 20 years experience in the supply chain industry, Evan has assisted enterprises and logistics service providers 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 global product management roles with Mercia and then Finmatica (Supply Chain Management). Evan has been with Kewill since 2004 in senior Marketing and Product Management roles, most recently as Chief Marketing Officer – prior to taking on his current role. An Australian, Evan now resides in Singapore.