Peter Simmonds commenced his career in 1976 as a trainee accountant with Unilever Plc and has over 20 years of experience at senior management and board level, principally in the areas of banking, insurance, finance, I.T. and outsourcing. He has considerable business entrepreneurial experience having been involved at start up or early stage of a number of companies in various industry sectors including consultancy services, vehicle leasing, computer software and internet solutions sectors.

Peter also has experience of business acquisition and post acquisition integration and management of businesses.

Simon Bird has developed an in depth technical knowledge of the internet and its applications. Prior to co-founding dotDigital Group he assisted in the development of a major internet access provider. He has provided services to a number of well known companies and organisations in helping create websites, intranets, extranets, content management systems and other online solutions.

Tink Taylor has many years’ experience in the field of digital marketing. Tink has wide ranging experience in introducing the concept of digital marketing to companies large and small. He is the chair of the DMA partnership hub of the email council and also a member of the Internet Advertising Bureaus E-communications Council. Tink having judged many categories at the DMA awards since 2008, he is now a group leader/chair of the email category.

Skip Fidura joined the dotDigital Group in January 2009 with a remit to build our digital strategy services offering. Skip's been in marketing for over 14 years, most recently as Email Partner at OgilvyOne London and prior to that as the Director of European Operations for Acxiom Digital. He has worked with clients such as BT, Kodak, hp, Intel, and Travelocity.co.uk. Skip is also Vice-Chairman of the UK DMA Email Marketing Council and was listed by Revolution Magazine as one of the 50 most influential people in new media.

Frank Beechinor, was for 11 years, CEO of One Click HR, an AIM quoted IT/Human Resources business of which he was a Co-founder. The Company operated in the UK and North America and had around 200 employees. Frank oversaw the successful sale of the business to ADP, a $4bn NYSE listed company, for US $25m. In notable addition, Frank was for 5 years, Operations Director of GMCS, part of Grand Metropolitan, a UK based training services provider, with several thousand employees. Frank brings a great deal of corporate experience to the Board, gained over 25 years of working for and running public and private companies. Frank has a strong track record in M&A and brings with him a quality network of contacts in the fields of managed services and Software as a service.

Mr Richard Kellett-Clarke brings to the board over 25 years of management experience in the turn round and strategic repositioning and recovery of creative businesses in CMCG, media, electronics and software industries. He was a founder of AFX NEWS ltd, now part of Thomson Reuters, and Sealed Media, now owned by Oracle. He has held numerous CFO roles in subsidiaries of large PLC’s as well as the role of IT Director at Financial Times Information. He was part of the team as CFO which brought Picwick Group PLC to the main market and Brady Plc to AIM. He is currently the CEO of Idox Plc an AIM listed specialist software, solutions and KM consultancy business.

Simone Barratt has over 15 years’ experience of ecommerce and online marketing. She has grown businesses to multi $m from incorporation. She has International expansion experience in Europe and the Asia Pac. She was appointed Global President of e-Dialog Inc an Ebay company in 2011 with Income Statement responsibility for just under $100m business across USA, EMEA and APAC and 450 employees.

Milan joined dotMailer in 2007 and was appointed Group Company Secretary in 2009. Milan is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments and holds a B.A (Hons) degree in Accounting and Finance. Milan has over 6 years experience in Accounting and Finance within the Media and Logistics industry. He has been responsible for the financial and legal aspects of the reverse acquisition of West End Ventures PLC, acquisition of Netcallidus, admission to Plus and the recent introduction to AIM. He is also responsible for the Group’s functions in financial management & reporting, regulatory compliance and corporate governance.