Yogesh Patel
Co-Managing Director
With over 15 years experience in financial services technology and business management, Yogesh focuses on the management of IT Action's technical services, engineering and consulting divisions. Prior to co-founding IT Action in 1999, Yogesh was a senior IT consultant in the banking and finance sector. He has overseen the design, integration and global roll-out of enterprise network and Unix infrastructures for leading international banking institutions, including Barclays Capital and Nomura International. Prior to this, Yogesh worked at Sun Microsystems providing support and consultancy for their network and operating system products. Earlier in his career, Yogesh worked in research and development at Crosfield Electronics, specialising in production engineering.
Yogesh has a BEng and MSc from Cranfield University.
Chris Neale
Co-Managing Director
Chris Neale is responsible for the customer services, client management and support divisions of IT Action. Chris co-founded IT Action, having held a number of senior IT consultancy positions in the financial services sector. Chris has worked on the design and implementation of large banking infrastructures, and at Nomura International was responsible for managing the production infrastructure across the bank's entire trading operation. Prior to this, Chris successfully established and developed Sun and Tibco technical departments for Business Systems Group. His earlier experience included systems development for Unix and mainframe platforms.
Chris has a BSc (Hons) degree from the University of Central Lancashire.
Andy King
Director of Business Development
Andy is responsible for leading IT Action's sales, business development and channel management functions. He has over 15 years experience in financial technology sales and marketing and has worked in the software, hardware, systems integration and professional services arenas. Prior to IT Action, Andy held senior sales and business development positions for Thomson Financial and Macgregor.
Andy has an MA (Hons) from the University of Cambridge. |
