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	Mike Aspinwall - Managing Director Mike's background is in the design and development of business application software with the majority of his career focused on construction industry software. Having graduated from Cambridge in 1983 with an engineering and computer science degree he was initially involved with running bespoke development projects for manufacturing and government before moving into the construction industry sector. As Development Director for Red Sky he led the design and development of the AXiM product. He was the driving force behind the Summit product set and in January 2007 was appointed MD of RedSky IT.
	Craig Norford – Finance & Commercial Director Craig has over 18 years board level experience in managing financial operations of various IT and financial services organisations. With initial roles within the construction industry at regional builder Trenthams, he then worked for 2 years in the services sector with Dun & Bradstreet before moving into the IT industry joining Misys in 1993, where he occupied a number of roles before moving to Red Sky. His experience includes all aspects of financial reporting and management, due diligence and acquisitions. Craig has been involved in the implementation of several financial systems including SAP, Buildax, AXiM and Summit.
	Mike Voyce – Sales & Marketing Director Mike has been working in the Construction IT Industry for over 20 years and has a wealth of experience in understanding business applications and how they can deliver real benefits to the customers. Mike started life in the industry as a salesman who’s role was to upgrade users to the new wonder PC which had a hard disk instead of 2 floppy discs! As Mike comments “Software applications have come a long way and are now an essential tool of any business that needs to process volumes of data and have the ability to analyse that information quickly”. It is great to see customers that have extended the use of our solutions from an initial focus on financial costing to using operational modules such as estimating, valuations, procurement which incorporate key aspects of their business in to one system for greater efficiency” Mike has an important remit to develop new business activity and provide a quality Account Management service to encourage and assist existing customers in partnership to develop and expand their use of the RedSky IT solutions. Mike joined the board in September 2008.
	Phil Kent – Delivery & Implementation Director Phil has 15 years experience within the Construction Industry. He graduated in 1994 with an Accounting & Finance degree and worked as a management accountant with a General Contractor before joining FCG in 1996. Over the past 13 years with the business he has built on a wealth of experience in Operational and Financial systems providing Consultancy and Project Management to implementations both large and small, in the UK and Middle East. For 5 years he was the Summit Product Manager taking a lead role in the Summit strategy and providing presales consultancy prior to joining the board in February 2007 as Delivery and Implementation Director.
	Bryan Wiggans – Customer Service Manager (Summit & MENTOR) Bryan commenced his 26 years in IT with Mentor Systems as a trainee assembler programmer, initially working on the MACS (Accounting and Construction Software) on the Subcontract 714 system, and has since been involved with designing, developing, implementing and supporting several products all within the Construction / Contracting Sector. He has been involved in managing product support of MENTOR and more latterly Summit, for the past 10 years and has built a strong team comprising seasoned analysts, programmers and technical staff. A promoter of frequent small improvements, he regularly reports on changes made and to be effected, during his User Group appearances. Bryan joined the senior management team in July 2007.
	Rob Mullins – Customer Service Manager (AEC) Rob has over 10 years experience of using the RedSky IT suite of products. He gained his in depth understanding through using it in Accounts, testing it in the Quality Assurance department and supporting it on the Helpdesk. This knowledge of the AEC family of products, was enhanced by the expertise he gained during the time spent with one of RedSky IT's customers. Here he was involved with training financial and engineering staff and providing support to the company’s financial staff throughout the UK. Having an appreciation of both the customer’s and of RedSky IT's perspective ensures that the Customer Services team demonstrate a high degree of awareness regarding the demands on our customers business. Rob was appointed AEC Customer Services Manager in June 2006 and joined the senior management team in July 2007.
	Steve Allen – Customer Service Manager (DEMA) Steve came to a career in IT from an accounting background when he joined one of the IT consultancy and auditing teams during his time at PKF. Quickly deciding that IT was much more fun than accountancy he moved on to spend 7 years as an IT manager for GEC within its finance and leasing business. Having spent that time as ostensibly a consumer of software services he joined The Database in 1998 to join the team developing the then fledgling Dema product to the Construction marketplace. During this time he has contributed to the whole product lifecycle from design and development through consultancy and implementation to support and aftercare. Steve now has many years experience and expertise in RDBMS and continues to actively respond to the needs of customers as well as contributing to the senior management team which he joined in July 2007.