Board
Executive Directors
Ciaran Morton - Chair & CEO
Ciaran Morton, previously with The Thomson Corporation, has extensive public company experience and has held senior management roles in a number of Thomson companies, with considerable operating experience in Europe, America and Asia-Pacific.
In his last role as General Manager of Thomson Business Intelligence, Ciaran personally led the restructuring of a global business with clients in over 100 countries. Prior to this, aged 31, he was appointed to the board of M.A.I.D PLC in 1994 and led their expansion into Asia Pacific. Following an acquisition in 2000 Ciaran moved to the Thomson Corporation as Executive Vice President of The Dialog Corporation, a TLR (Thomson Legal and Regulatory) subsidiary, responsible for all non-US operations. Following Dialog's acquisition of Intelligence Data and NewsEdge, Ciaran led the successful integration of all international operations, with directorships in every key European market. In 2004 Dialog was unbundled to enable the component parts of the business to specialise in key areas and Ciaran led a period of substantial growth for the newly created Thomson Business Intelligence, one of the world's largest suppliers of online strategic business intelligence.
Matthew Thomas - Chief Technical Officer
Matthew is one of the founders of
Cashbox and has been instrumental in growing it to the size it is today. He previously held a board position as operations director with Seetech Computing an IT company that is a specialist in what is known as "Thin Client" technology and Network infrastructure. Prior to this, Matthew spent over 10 years with Stage Electrics a £22m turnover leading company in the sound and lighting field for the entertainment industry. Matthew designed and implemented the IT architecture to run many of the entertainment systems in prestige high profile sites such as the Millennium Dome, Cardiff Millennium Stadium and many West End Theatres. Matthew has been responsible for the development and implementation of the Group's technical and operational infrastructure to date.
Non-Executive Directors
Andrew Fearon
Andrew Fearon is a qualified corporate lawyer having practiced law at major uk firms before entering business. His first venture was sold to a US business for £42m in 2001. From there he ran an AIM listed company for 3 years, growing the market cap of the business from £1m to over £50m and completed a number of acquisitions. He currently advises private and public companies on fund raisings and acquisitions, has a close working relationship with a number of AIM brokers and runs a small investment fund based in Guernsey. He is a non executive director to two other private companies in the UK.
William Hughes CBE
William was appointed to the Board in March 2007 and is currently the Chairman of Fairfax I.S. PLC, an investment bank and Member of the London Stock Exchange.
William was the Chairman of Grampian Holdings PLC from 1985 to 1998 having previously been Chief Executive from 1976. Grampian Holdings PLC was an industrial holding company with both UK and International interests employing over 5,000 staff. He was Non Executive Chairman of Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust PLC for 15 years. Joining upon inception in 1990 with £13m under management, the Company had a market capitalisation of just over £500m at the time of his retirement in 2005.
William recently retired from being a Trustee of the Prince's Trust UK Council and Chairman of the Prince's Trust (Scotland).
