James Lewis
Chief Executive Officer
James has an unhealthy obsession with all things MFT. He can happily spend many hours researching the marketplace and also uses his knowledge to provide best advice to prospective and existing customers.
James also delivers one-to-one training to new members of the team. He’s committed to helping them develop their knowledge of MFT.
As a passionate environmentalist, James often organises beach cleans, recycles everything he can including crisp packets and encourages sustainability. These values are also reflected in our customers too.
Over the years James has created a business hub, where local independent businesses support one another in time of need.
Matthew Kyprianou
Chief Operating Officer
Matthew’s innate curiosity has helped him enjoy success at each stage of his career. He naturally loves to ask questions, challenge the status-quo and create strategies that propels the company forwards.
He is a firm believer that an optimistic approach even at the most difficult times will allow you to achieve your goals no matter how small or big. This outlook allows Matthew to enjoy both the physical and mental challenges that work and life bring.
Having previously played football to a high level, Matthew enjoys coaching his son’s under 8 football team. He loves being able to give back to the community and share his coaching tips to the next generation of footballers.
Glynn Henry
Chief Revenue Officer
Glynn describes himself as adventurous, passionate and people centric, a combination of attributes that have been vital in his career of sales management and executive leadership. As the Sales Director at Pro2col he prides himself on engineering measurable, customer-focused success.
Glynn believes that a motivated and successful team thrives when they are empowered to sell with integrity and can deliver solutions with real commercial value. He instils a sales culture of celebrating success and embracing the opportunities and learnings when things don’t go to plan.
Outside of work, Glynn is a family man and loves the outdoors. Volunteering as a leader at 1st Barton Sea Scouts, he gets to share his bushcraft skills and be an active member of the community. He is happiest on the ocean and has even spent weeks at sea exploring uninhabited atolls.
Michael Ramalho
Head of Marketing
Michael is a passionate advocate for digital marketing, community building and for leveraging data to drive marketing decisions. He encourages his team to experiment, learn and iterate and fail from time to time. He always says that Marketing is all about getting things wrong, so that you can get things right.
A flair for the creative hasn’t dimmed his ability to pepper his copy with bad puns and exclamation marks. Which means that every proofread of his work begins with an immediate exclamation purge. Despite this one or two tend to slip through the net!
To continue to learn and grow Michael committed to spending at least 15 minutes a day reading. Sometimes for pleasure, sometimes for work. He managed a successful 1016 day stretch, before missing one day for the birth of his daughter.
Having grown up in Southern Africa, Michael is a passionate conservationist and a supporter of a couple of small community charities in his old hometown.
Dave Hendley
Head of Technical
Dave comes from a wealth of technical experience scoping appropriate solutions for customers and managing projects from conception to completion. He oversees the Technical Department, ensuring projects and managed services are delivered to the highest standard. He is also becoming a Globalscape EFT specialist to further his knowledge and assist the Technical Team with customer tickets.
Outside of work, he considers himself a dad first type of guy. He loves to spend as much time as he can with his wife and daughter on day trips, walks and movie nights.
Michelle Grimaldi
Head of Operational Excellence
As Head of Operations, there’s not much going on at the company without Michelle knowing about it. From process improvements, new systems, product launch plans and client onboarding you can guarantee Michelle is involved.
Being part of the operations team is all about finding the best solutions. This requires the ability to think outside of the box. If Michelle is given a problem, she is able to explore solutions to find the best one.
Outside of work she is studying for her PRINCE2 certification to enhance her project management skillset.
Michelle is also involved in local community events. Recently taking part in the Solent beach clean and helping out with her daughter’s parent association events.
Katie I’Anson
Group Head of HR
Katie’s role as Head of HR means she is routinely keeping up-to-date with employment legislation and best practice. This helps Katie improve our people processes to ensure Pro2col is a great place to work.
Katie is naturally a people person and is not afraid to speak up when something isn’t in the best interest of our people or communities.
She’s constantly strives to be the best version of herself, both professionaly and personally. She has recently completed her CIPD level 7 Advanced Certificate in Human Resource Management.
Katie enjoys stepping outside of her comfort zone. She will be taking part in the Dorset firewalk, stepping on hot coals to raise money for Parkinson’s.
Craig Waldron
Head of Sales
Craig has always been curious about the world of tech solutions and is excited to be on this new adventure at Pro2col. Having had many years of successful B2B sales management, he is looking forward to bringing his wealth of experience to our team. Craig gains great self-satisfaction by seeing a salesperson develop to superstar status.
Craig loves to spend quality time with his family, and in his spare time, he keeps himself fit by taking part in boxing and running, having also run the London Marathon.
Richard Auger
Principal Technical Consultant
Richard has been working in the fields of file transfer and middleware for around twenty years. He’s currently Pro2col’s lead Technical Consultant helping clients get the most out of their MFT solution.
One of the reasons why Richard loves tech is his curious nature. Tech is constantly evolving, so he is always trying the latest tech releases and testing their limits.
No job is too difficult for Richard. He’s always willing to go the extra mile to get a job finished, whether that’s at work or a project at home.
In his free time, Richard can be found tending to his garden where he has ‘wilded’ large parts to bring more wildlife to the area.
Sam Fry
Senior Technical Consultant
As a data and systems architect, Sam is always looking for ways to increase the accuracy and automation of data for efficiencies.
Naturally, there’ll be both successes and failures when developing new data processes but Sam believes that each experience is valuable in facilitating continued technical and personal improvement.
Sam is a big advocate for shared learning and makes herself available to the wider team to both share her skills and also learn from them.
By now, you’ll know that Sam loves data. She believes in maximising shared data and resources so we continue to empower our customer community.
Helder Vieira
Technical Support Analyst
As a technical support analyst, Helder enjoys getting to grips with the latest MFT platforms to better help solve client queries.
Although Helder would like to have all the answers on-hand, sometimes this isn’t the case. Technology is always changing and the best way to learn is to promote shared learning between the team.
He prides himself as a real team player and is the first to step in to offer any assistance. These values also apply outside of work. Helder often helps out in the local community, volunteering at the local homeless shelter providing IT support.
Ashley Wallis
Technical Support Analyst
Ashley has a love for all things technology and after a brief spell working as an Account Manager he has found his way back to the front line of all things tech.
Working in technology naturally calls for an inquisitive person and Ashley is no different. He loves keeping on top of the latest IT trends, as well as keeping an open mind to learning new skills that will help further his knowledge.
His curious nature also extends to his love of travel. On Ashley’s bucket list is a trip to Kenya, most specifically a safari excursion!
James Pelham
Enterprise Account Manager
James is a natural people person, so it’s only fitting he found his calling in Account Management. He enjoys building relationships with clients and helping them achieve their business goals.
Whilst no-one is perfect, James is a firm believer that it’s better to try and fail than to never try at all. So it will come as no surprise that James is always looking to expand his horizons, whether that’s reading, listening to podcasts or travelling the world (Singapore was a favourite)- every day is a new day to learn.
At Pro2col, James has chosen to join the environment and sustainability group and can’t wait to get stuck in to make a difference in our community.
Iain Spooner
Enterprise Account Manager
Iain is an experienced Account Manager who loves to work with his customers to understand, uncover and delve into their needs in order to provide the best possible service.
Outside of work, Iain has a passion for photography, in particular, aerial photography, making use of his drone to take some stunning images of the Dorset landscape. As a dive professional, he’s very curious about the underwater world and always keen to scuba dive in new locations.
Nina McNair
Channel Partner Manager
As a Channel Partner Manager, Nina is passionate about cultivating strong partnerships. She thrives on building trust with business collaborators and her commitment lies in mutual growth, embracing the journey of understanding and addressing needs and pain points through active listening.
Nina excels in fostering open and honest communication to enhance overall support provided to our partners. Committed to working towards a joint goal of supporting our partners and their clients in finding the best possible solutions to improve Security and automation processes.
Outside of the office, she channels her love for the outdoors through challenging pursuits, like cold water dips or conquering the stunning Jurassic Coast’s Mighty Hike Marathon to support Macmillan – a cause close to her heart.
Amanda Keegan
Senior Finance Assistant
As a member of the Finance team, Amanda is committed to producing accurate numbers at all times, but her commitment extends to bringing ethical sustainable practices to the workplace. A measure of success isn’t just about hitting profits, but more about the wider impact on both people and the planet.
With this ethos, Amanda tries to stand by her principles to speak out when she feels a line has been crossed.
When Amanda isn’t crunching the numbers she can be found at Patrick’s Patch in Beaulieu, where she volunteers as a gardener. It brings her great joy to spend time outside and to see first-hand the children’s enthusiasm for making things grow.
Luke Nurdin
Senior Operations Specialist
As Operations Specialist Luke is continually looking for opportunities to improve business processes to increase efficiency.
He’s able to prioritise tasks that moves the company forwards, whilst also maintaining the day-to-day business functionalities.
Having started as a Sales Administrator, Luke has in depth knowledge of all the sales processes. As he has progressed through the company, he is committed to providing support to colleagues in all areas.
If you need a laugh Luke is the go to person. Unless you don’t like puns. He’s the resident quiz master and regularly boosted morale with team quizzes during lockdown.
Beccs Warman
Senior Operations Specialist
Beccs has a keen eye for detail and loves to be on her feet constantly learning and improving both professionally and personally. These characteristics has helped Beccs succeed in her role as Sales Administrator.
Beccs believes in surrounding herself with positivity, so you’ll always find her with a big smile on her face. This mind-set has allowed Beccs to explore the world to improve her independence and confidence. In fact, if you have a moment, she’ll love to tell you all about her adventuress across Central America and Mexico.
As a keen environmentalist, Beccs has organised a beach clean-up team while living in Cambodia and always makes an effort to reduce, re-use and recycle in everyday life.
Sean Holdstock
Technical Consultant
As a Technical Consultant Sean keeps up to date with trends and changes in the IT marketplace to give him a clear outlook on how technology evolves.
He’s not afraid to challenge his knowledge by learning new code languages and always looks for ways this could help his colleagues. Sean has many hobbies, including cold water swimming, raising and cultivating bonsai trees, upcycling old electrical equipment, and repairing laptops (up to 70 a year) for free!
Caine Latham
Enterprise Account Manager
Caroline Sparks
HR Officer
Caroline is excited to get stuck into all things HR after completing her CIPD Level 5, and is looking forward to furthering her knowledge and experience within the field. Mental health and wellbeing are very important to Caroline and she is also a qualified Master Life Coach and Master NLP Practitioner.
Out of the office she enjoys spending time with her 2 children, swimming, theatre trips and weekend European getaways when time allows!
Jonathan Tomlinson
Account Executive
For over twenty years, Jonathan has centred his career around customer service and sales, fostering lasting client relationships. He prides himself on his ability to communicate and is looking forward to translating those skills and applying them effectively in his position at Pro2col.
Outside of work, Jonathan is passionate about fly fishing, rugby, photography, and culinary adventures, which occupy a significant portion of his free time. If he's not doing one of the aforementioned, you can often find him exploring new places and discovering new experiences with his wife.
Steph Johnson
Marketing Manager
As Senior Marketing Executive Steph is passionate about all things Marketing and is continuously looking to broaden her knowledge in the industry, learn from experts and keep up to date with the latest trends.
Steph is a creative and committed member of the marketing team and isn’t afraid of a new challenge.
Beyond the office, Steph is an avid adventurer, often exploring somewhere new with her dog and enjoys documenting her trips on her travel blog.
Jake Honeybun
Account Manager
As an Account Manager, Jake has a passion for tackling business challenges head-on. He possesses an insatiable curiosity, always eager to uncover the core issues a business faces and align them with visionary solutions.
Jake thrives on a ‘can do’ attitude and is always ready to embrace a new challenge. He recognises that success is not linear and he’s not afraid of failure as that’s where the real learning and growth occurs.
In his personal life, Jake is committed to making a positive impact in his community. He frequently participates in charitable fundraisers including the Three Peaks Challenge, Bournemouth Half Marathon and the Pier to Pier Swim.
