Ancoris has an experienced leadership team with backgrounds at enterprise IT software and services businesses including IBM, Lotus, Sequent, Cisco, Nortel, CSC and others:
- Managing Director - David McLeman
- Services Director - David Fenton
- CTO - Stuart Keeble
- Development Director, e-learning and collaboration - Susan Fabre
- Marketing Director - Anne-Laure McLeman
- Financial Controller - Susan Grigsby
- Customer Services Manager - Louisa Bird
David McLeman - Managing Director
David has been involved with Software-as-a-Service since 1999 when he was Vice-President at Netstore (now 2e2), the UK's first ‘Application Service Provider’, delivering multi-tenanted hosted messaging services based on Microsoft Exchange.
David has an extensive background in Internet services and IT service management having held senior European management positions as a European Regional Director with open-systems pioneer Sequent (now IBM); as Managing Director, UK and Ireland at Data General (now EMC) and Regional Director, Northern Europe with security and identity management specialists NetIQ.
David holds a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science with Mathematics from University of Bristol
David Fenton - Services Director
David is an experienced IT Services Director, with over 20 years experience of leading Service organisations at a Worldwide, European and UK level and leads our project delivery, support and services teams.
Prior to joining Ancoris David was Operations Director at Kroll OnTrack, which provides technology-driven services and software for e-discovery, information management and data recovery. David's experience also includes managed services experience as Director, Managed Desktop Services at CSC Computer Sciences Corp; data-centre experience as Vice-President, Professional Services at Exodus; service product management leadership as Director, Service Product Management at IBM and support leadership as Global Service Delivery Director at Sequent (now IBM).
David holds a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics from Imperial College, London
Stuart Keeble - CTO
Stuart has over 20 years experience of leading IT Services and Development teams at a Worldwide and UK level and leads our Google Cloud product and custom development teams.
Stuart joined Ancoris as CTO following the acquisition of the business of Appogee Limited, a leading Google Cloud Services Partner, which he founded in 2010 and where he had been General Manager. Stuart's career includes 12 years as Development Director at Portal Partnership (and its predecessor NetInfo), a leading IBM WebSphere and Lotus Partner and 13 years at Lotus Development (now IBM) where he finally held the position of Director of Technology, Worldwide Customer Service and Support.
Stuart holds a BA (Hons) in Management from the University of Kent
Sue Fabre - Development Director, e-learning and collaboration
Sue leads the development of our user enablement services including the Cloud Skills Academy and our training courses. Sue also leads our collaborative software development including social and collaborative applications using Google Sites and Google Apps Script.
Sue joined Ancoris in 2012 following the acquisition of Cloud Skills, the leading Google Apps training company, which she co-founded in 2009. Sue has over 20 years in the development of e-learning systems for companies including Hewlett-Packard (HP), the BBC, Siemens and Atos.
Anne-Laure McLeman - Marketing Director
Anne-Laure is responsible for our marketing activities including our joint programs with our strategic partners.
Anne-Laure joined Ancoris in 2010, having previously been Commercial Program Manager, Emerging Markets for Cisco. Former roles include senior marketing management roles at Nortel, Peak Technologies, Requisite and AST Computer (now Samsung).
Anne-Laure holds a degree in Modern Languages from Université d'Angers in France
Susan Grigsby - Financial Controller
Susan is responsible for finance and accounting at Ancoris and joined the company in 2011.
Susan is a qualified accountant who spent her post-qualification years as an Audit Senior at Grant Thornton. Before joining Ancoris she was Financial Accountant at Anite Telecoms.
Susan holds a BSc(Hons) in Accounting and Finance from the University of Southampton.
Louisa Bird - Customer Services Manager
Louisa is responsible for our support team and customer care at Ancoris.
Louisa (and her team) are all Google Certified Deployment Specialists and she holds one of the first 15 such certifications issued worldwide. Louisa joined Ancoris in 2009, having previously been IT Systems Leader at Global Radio .
Louisa holds a BSc(Hons) in Computer Science from Kingston University.
