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Macro 4's team of directors provides the Group with a wide range of industry and financial experience.

Group Chief Executive Officer
Ronnie Wilson


Ronnie Wilson, CEO   Position:
Group Chief Executive Officer, appointed on 1 June, 1998.
Profile:
Previously Vice President and General Manager of Europe, Middle East and Africa for Sequent Computers Corporation, Inc. Prior to this, Ronnie Wilson was with Unisys Corporation in a number of senior management positions including Vice President and General Manager Central and Eastern Europe.


Chief Operating Officer
Alan Sloan

Alan Sloan, Chief Operating Officer   Position:
Chief Operating Officer, appointed on 12 October, 1998.
Profile:
Previously Business Development Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa for Sequent Computers Corporation, Inc. Prior to this, Alan Sloan was UK Professional Services Director for Sequent Computers Corporation, Inc., and UK Technical Director for Data General.


Director of Field Operations
Laurent Berns

Laurent Berns, Director of Field Operations   Position:
Director of Field Operations, appointed as Executive Director on
19 December, 2006.
Profile:
Laurent was also General Manager of Macro 4 France, a position he held since joining the company in March 2005. Previously COO for W4 (a European company specialising in workflow and business process management solutions), CEO for Neuromedias (website design, manufacture and integration), CEO of Sales for Moore Process Automation Solutions and Product Marketing Director for Triconex (an international company specialising in safety and critical control systems).


Group Finance Director
David Smyth

David Smyth, Group Finance Director   Position:
Group Finance Director, appointed on 1 December, 2007.
Profile:
Previously Chief Executive and CFO of The Diagnostic Clinic, one of the most innovative and forward-looking health services companies in the UK.  Prior to this Mr Smyth was Group Director of Investor & Strategic Services at leading telecommunications operator Orange. He is also a Non-Executive Director at Golden Telecom, the $4bn NASDAQ listed leading alternative telecoms company in Russia and also sits on its Executive Committee and chairs the Audit Committee.

Chairman
Patrick Gallagher

Patrick Gallagher, Chairman   Position:
Chairman, appointed on
10 January, 2008.
Profile:
Mr Gallagher is currently Vice Chairman of Golden Telecom Inc., the Moscow-based provider of integrated communications networks, and is on the Board of Harmonics Inc. Until recently he was a member of the Supervisory Board of Getronics NV and, between 2003 and 2006, was CEO and co-Chairman of FLAG Telecom Group. Prior to FLAG, Mr Gallagher spent 17 years with BT, initially as Commercial Advisor and Commercial Director of BT and in 1994 was appointed Director of Business Development. He was President of BT Europe from January 1996 until July 2000 and subsequently sat on BT's Executive Committee as Group Strategy and Development Director.


Non-executive Director
David Cowie

David Cowie, Non-executive Director   Position:
Non-executive Director, appointed on 16 August, 2000.
Profile:
David Cowie has a wealth of experience in the computer software industry, and was Vice President of Development at Concurrent Computer Corporation. Most recently he managed the IT Millennium project for a major UK service provider.


Non-executive Director
Richard Burns

Richard Burns, Non-executive Director  

Position:
Non-executive Director, appointed on 6 July, 2007.
Profile:
Richard Burns is a London based Partner at Hammonds, one of the UK's largest commercial law firms. Richard qualified as a lawyer in 1983 whilst at Hammonds and was promoted to Partner in 1986. Richard’s extensive experience includes advising nationally and internationally on M&A, IPO and equity financing.  Richard is also a Non-Executive Director of eaga plc.  He was educated at Hull University.



Ronnie Wilson
Group Chief Executive Officer


Alan Sloan
Chief Operating Officer


Laurent Berns
Director of Field Operations


David Smyth
Group Finance Director


Patrick Gallagher
Chairman


David Cowie
Non-executive Director


Richard Burns
Non-executive Director

 

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