Management Team

Andrew Sykes: CEO

Passionate Open Source proponent, Andrew Sykes was the first UK adoptee of flagship opensource Apache ERP platform OfBiz. Helping the roll-out of 12 OfBiz implementations among the UK FTSE 100 within 3 years as well as two in the USA.

With a background in technical architecture on projects for BAE Systems and Llyods of London, as well as Development Methodology Advisor, borrowing notably from eXtreme Programming and Scrum, for companies such as Reuters Ltd and Netstore Plc, Andrew has assisted many software development teams to realign their implementation strategy around bespoke implementation methodologies more tightly focussed on business need, driving productivity and profitability upwards in the process.

Andrew is passionate about the positive impact technology can have on our lives and society and is a family man and father of two.

Myles Chippendale: Senior Solutions Analyst

A graduate of Edinburgh and Oxford Universities and winner of the Queen's College Benefactors Prize. Myles co-founded the POEM and Melati opensource projects assisting businesses in the rapid growth of their eBusiness portfolios during the 1990s before being recruited by Netstore Plc as senior architect and analyst to assist in an aggressive phase of growth by acquisition.

More recently Myles assisted Open+ to establish lasting change in the implementation strategy used by Reuters Ltd in their £11M GCAP CRM project.

Myles is a passionate exponent of analytical rigour in the planning of technical projects and a keen student of modern “agile” project and analysis methodologies.