TechTrek - Managing Board

TechTrek Managing Board

	Tony Gale Chairman Tony Gale is Chairman of TechTrek Limited and apart from running the board is responsible for strategy, finance and governance. Tony started his career at EMI in finance and moved to BP where he became Finance Director of one of its divisions. He joined Ernst & Young's as a Principal Consultant, working on numerous projects worldwide, including an MIS system for a sovereign state. Four years later he joined Andersen's UK consultancy practice (now Accenture) as a Managing Consultant, specialising in multi-function 'turn around' assignments. He then moved to GN Great Nordic group as MD of its UK operations, overseeing an increase in business turnover from £3 million to £22 million per annum, achieved through mergers and organic growth. In 1990 Tony co-founded Linkhand, an IT services company focused on document and process management. The company grew to sales of £4 million-plus before being acquired by Melstar in 2001, when he became CEO of the European Operations. Linkhand was subsequently acquired by LB Icon in 2004. As CEO of LB Icon Ltd, Tony Gale led the UK management team of LB Icon, one of the leading international full service digital marketing companies. On leaving LB Icon, to focus on TechTrek, the company had reached an annual turnover of £20 million in the UK.

Tony Gale
Chairman

Tony Gale is Chairman of TechTrek Limited and apart from running the board is responsible for strategy, finance and governance.

Tony started his career at EMI in finance and moved to BP where he became Finance Director of one of its divisions. He joined Ernst & Young's as a Principal Consultant, working on numerous projects worldwide, including an MIS system for a sovereign state. Four years later he joined Andersen's UK consultancy practice (now Accenture) as a Managing Consultant, specialising in multi-function 'turn around' assignments. He then moved to GN Great Nordic group as MD of its UK operations, overseeing an increase in business turnover from £3 million to £22 million per annum, achieved through mergers and organic growth.

In 1990 Tony co-founded Linkhand, an IT services company focused on document and process management. The company grew to sales of £4 million-plus before being acquired by Melstar in 2001, when he became CEO of the European Operations. Linkhand was subsequently acquired by LB Icon in 2004. As CEO of LB Icon Ltd, Tony Gale led the UK management team of LB Icon, one of the leading international full service digital marketing companies. On leaving LB Icon, to focus on TechTrek, the company had reached an annual turnover of £20 million in the UK.

	Paul Dolan Sales Director Paul joined TechTrek in July 2009 to lead the growth of the business in the UK. Previously he held a number of senior sales roles with Anacomp Inc, a worldwide provider of information management solutions and owners of the docHarbor® brand. In his last position Paul was the UK Business Manager for Anacomp, focusing on the growth of the new digital services, docHarbor Online service and BPM solutions. Paul had considerable success in growing this business and contributed the first successful sales of docHarbor BPMS in the world, innovative solutions that were pioneered within the UK banking industry. Paul has worked in this industry for 25 years including 12 years in data centre operations management at Microgen UK Ltd. With this length of experience comes a broad knowledge of the market, products, services and his involvement in major sales contracts across many industry sectors involving Document and Film Scanning, onshore/offshore Data capture, electronic document management (EDM) and Business Process Management (BPM) Print & Mail, Data Warehousing, In house DMS and micro imaging.

Paul Dolan
Sales Director

Paul joined TechTrek in July 2009 to lead the growth of the business in the UK. Previously he held a number of senior sales roles with Anacomp Inc, a worldwide provider of information management solutions and owners of the docHarbor® brand. In his last position Paul was the UK Business Manager for Anacomp, focusing on the growth of the new digital services, docHarbor Online service and BPM solutions. Paul had considerable success in growing this business and contributed the first successful sales of docHarbor BPMS in the world, innovative solutions that were pioneered within the UK banking industry.

Paul has worked in this industry for 25 years including 12 years in data centre operations management at Microgen UK Ltd. With this length of experience comes a broad knowledge of the market, products, services and his involvement in major sales contracts across many industry sectors involving Document and Film Scanning, onshore/offshore Data capture, electronic document management (EDM) and Business Process Management (BPM) Print & Mail, Data Warehousing, In house DMS and micro imaging.

	Rob Allen Head of Professional Services and Principal Consultant Rob Allen has been involved with document centric business processes since the mid 80's; when he led early electronic document management (EDM) and Business Process Management (BPM) product development initiatives. Rob has been enrolled as a Master of Information Technologies by AIIM and as a Fellow of the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) for his thought leadership in inter-entity workflow collaborations. He is also the author of expert guides and is currently sharing the lead of an industry initiative to design BPM methodologies to support the 'knowledge worker.' Recently, Rob has designed and built BPM environments for a leading car leasing company to control regulated processes, a payments reconciliation service for a large property management company, and outsourced a loans application process for a major UK bank Rob Allen is passionate about business process optimisation, and delivering better than expected business performance for stakeholders by the adroit control of risk-reward ratios, whilst, at the same time, creating a pleasant working environment for all participants

Rob Allen
Head of Professional Services and Principal Consultant

Rob Allen has been involved with document centric business processes since the mid 80's; when he led early electronic document management (EDM) and Business Process Management (BPM) product development initiatives. Rob has been enrolled as a Master of Information Technologies by AIIM and as a Fellow of the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) for his thought leadership in inter-entity workflow collaborations. He is also the author of expert guides and is currently sharing the lead of an industry initiative to design BPM methodologies to support the 'knowledge worker.'

Recently, Rob has designed and built BPM environments for a leading car leasing company to control regulated processes, a payments reconciliation service for a large property management company, and outsourced a loans application process for a major UK bank

Rob Allen is passionate about business process optimisation, and delivering better than expected business performance for stakeholders by the adroit control of risk-reward ratios, whilst, at the same time, creating a pleasant working environment for all participants

	Ray Paulauskas IT and operations Ray has extensive experience on software development and IT systems, and also holds an MSc in Electric Engineering. He gradually climbed up the ladder from Junior Developer to Product Architect, and eventually Chief Technology Officer at TechTrek. The software development background helps Ray to not only make technology work, but also understand how it works from inside and even do changes if necessary, making him invaluable asset to any business.

Ray Paulauskas
IT and operations

Ray has extensive experience on software development and IT systems, and also holds an MSc in Electric Engineering. He gradually climbed up the ladder from Junior Developer to Product Architect, and eventually Chief Technology Officer at TechTrek. The software development background helps Ray to not only make technology work, but also understand how it works from inside and even do changes if necessary, making him invaluable asset to any business.

	Marcello Dani Country Manager for Italy Marcello joined TechTrek in 2009 as Country Manager, he has made significant contributions with new orders for the Italian State Railways and working with the Italian Census and National Institute of Statistics and Public Research. Marcello's past experience includes the following key roles within the industry; 1987-2006 as Sales Manager for Germany/Austria, Spain for The Imtec Group Ltd (a UK company of Imtec Group PLC) in document Management, microfilm and repro, in particular large format document capture. 2006 – 2008 as Managing Director at MC Digital Solution Srl. spin-off from Imtec Italy and helped to establish the business in Italy and in Egypt for Document Management, data entry, plotting and microfilm services. He has won several large document management contracts , in full-service engineering and construction services in the field of hydrocarbons and petrochemicals.

Marcello Dani
Country Manager for Italy

Marcello joined TechTrek in 2009 as Country Manager, he has made significant contributions with new orders for the Italian State Railways and working with the Italian Census and National Institute of Statistics and Public Research.

Marcello's past experience includes the following key roles within the industry;

1987-2006 as Sales Manager for Germany/Austria, Spain for The Imtec Group Ltd (a UK company of Imtec Group PLC) in document Management, microfilm and repro, in particular large format document capture.

2006 – 2008 as Managing Director at MC Digital Solution Srl. spin-off from Imtec Italy and helped to establish the business in Italy and in Egypt for Document Management, data entry, plotting and microfilm services. He has won several large document management contracts , in full-service engineering and construction services in the field of hydrocarbons and petrochemicals.

	Akshay Malhotra Non Executive Director Akshay is senior professional with considerable experience in the Telco and IT industries and advises the TechTrek board on growth strategies in his role as a non-executive director. Akshay started his career at Ericsson, where he managed several high profile projects for both growth and cost cutting initiatives. In 2003 he co-founded Xentronik, a technology start-up where he headed the products and services team. Over the following years, he secured several blue chip clients such as AePona, Devoteam, Stratus Technologies, TeleDenmark, Orange etc that helped to grow the company into a significant European product house. After selling Xentronik in 2009 to a VC backed MBO, Akshay moved on to providing consultancy services to businesses and corporate groups across EMEA. These include TechTrek, Virgin Mobile, Qatar Telecom etc.

Akshay Malhotra
Non Executive Director

Akshay is senior professional with considerable experience in the Telco and IT industries and advises the TechTrek board on growth strategies in his role as a non-executive director.

Akshay started his career at Ericsson, where he managed several high profile projects for both growth and cost cutting initiatives. In 2003 he co-founded Xentronik, a technology start-up where he headed the products and services team. Over the following years, he secured several blue chip clients such as AePona, Devoteam, Stratus Technologies, TeleDenmark, Orange etc that helped to grow the company into a significant European product house. After selling Xentronik in 2009 to a VC backed MBO, Akshay moved on to providing consultancy services to businesses and corporate groups across EMEA. These include TechTrek, Virgin Mobile, Qatar Telecom etc.

Tony Gale Chairman

Paul Dolan Sales Director

Rob Allen Head of Professional Services and Principal Consultant

Ray Paulauskas IT and operations