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Directors and Advisors

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Christian Martin, Chairman

Christian has been Chairman of QA-IQ Group since 1999, becoming Executive in April 2001. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales having qualified with KMG (now KPMG). Between 1994 and 1997 Christian was Chief Executive of Azlan Group Plc, having been Finance Director from 1992. He was previously Finance Director of Erskine Ltd and Warner Fabrics Plc. Christian is also a non-executive director of Danwood Group Ltd, a large office solutions organisation.

 
  

William Macpherson, CEO, QA-IQ

William Macpherson joined QA-IQ as CEO in 2008 with over 12 years’ experience in senior management of training organisations. He was until recently the Chief Executive of Kaplan Professional & International, a major learning services organisation with sales in excess of $500 million. He began leading training companies in 1995 when he became Chief Executive of Financial Training, which he built into the UK's largest accountancy training businesses.
 
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Sean Fane, Managing Director, IQ-Sys

Sean has over 19 years experience of working in the UK IT channel. After successful roles in product management within Europe’s largest IT distributor, now Tech Data Corporation, Sean joined QA-IQ in 1997 as the General Manager of IQ-Sys, before assuming his current role as Managing Director.
 
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Martin Trainer, Finance Director

Martin joined QA-IQ in July 2007 as Finance Director following nine years at Capita Group PLC where he held a variety of senior financial and operational roles, most recently Chief Operating Officer for the Life & Pensions division. A Chartered Accountant, he spent the first 11 years of his career at PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP which included secondments to NatWest and Clydesdale Bank PLC. Martin is a Fellow of the Royal Society.

 
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Harvey Thomas, Operations Director

Harvey Thomas joined QA-IQ in October 2007 in the role of Operations Director. He is a chartered accountant by training who in recent years has performed a number of senior operational and commercial roles with Capita Group and Norwich Union Healthcare.

 
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John Kauffman, Non-Executive Director, QA-IQ

John has over 19 years experience working in senior management positions within the IT training industry, including seven years as Managing Director of QA-IQ. During this period John was also Senior Vice-President of TEN TV Inc. (a US based specialist IT education company broadcasting over the internet), Sales Director for both Azlan Training Ltd and Smartforce Ltd. He joined QA-IQ as Commercial Director in 2000 and was appointed Managing Director in 2001.

 
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Michael Brooke, Non-Executive Director

Michael graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge with an honours degree in Mechanical Sciences. He founded Datasolve International in 1968 and Micro Business Systems in 1976, which became a fully listed company in 1983. Since 1986 he has been involved in the funding and development of a number of IT companies, generally in the role of Chairman, a number of which have been floated. He is currently Chairman of Prelude Trust Plc (fully listed) and Maxima Holdings Plc (AIM listed) and a Director of a number of private companies.