Team
Our growing team is a mix of permanent, seconded and contracted staff working to support the activities of the Company alongside selected external partners.
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Ian Bell, CEO, Police ICT Company
Ian is Chief Executive Officer of the Police ICT Company and a member of the Company’s board of directors. He joined the Company in February 2018, bringing more than 18 years of technology, finance, multi-industry leadership and executive management experience to his role. Ian leads the Company's direction and strategy.
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Since being appointed, Ian has embarked on a formative rebrand and re-set of the Company among its policing, government and supplier partners, with the aim of delivering a new strategy and set of service capabilities to complement the ever-changing demand in policing. Since then he has also secured transformation funding to support the Company in its mission to grow and become successful in the way it supports policing.
Previously, Ian, who has been involved in policing since 2008, has served in a variety of roles across policing, noticeably as the Chief Information Officer of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire, before moving on to become the Director of the National Enablers Programmes at their inception, leading business case and blueprint design teams to gain national funding for full role out across England and Wales.
In the private sector, Ian managed multi-sourced technology services across a corporation. Prior to technology, he qualified as a chartered accountant.
Ian has two boys and enjoys watching and encouraging them on the sports field, whilst still coaching and umpiring in a multitude of sports himself. Ian is an avid fan of Chelsea FC but maintains a love for Rugby Union and Cricket.
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Gary Chahal, Business Intelligence Manager
Gary joined us in July of 2017 and is responsible for the production and interpretation of financial management analysis and performance indicators linked to the Company's structure and objectives; reporting them directly to the Head of Commercial.
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Having served in both the Private and Public sector, Gary has over 10 years experience in Data, Finance and Business Intelligence, producing and designing KPI reports to cater for specific needs in order to monitor performance within an organisation.
In his spare time he enjoys reading as well as a variety of sports including football and basketball. He has also participated in various charity events to help raise money for children in poverty as well as victims of natural disasters worldwide.
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Simon Clifford, Director of Digital & Data
Simon came to the Company in March 2019 from the Office of the Northamptonshire Police and Crime Commissioner, where he was Director of Digital Transformation.Simon heads up the Company's "Set the Direction" pillar of the Company. In his words it's about "making policing a rapidly adaptable organisation" and this is central to the strategy work he is building and will support going forward.
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The strategy work includes technical architecture, standards, operating model and supporting engagement with key regional and national stakeholders to appreciate the transformational opportunities the right approach offers.
Simon also offers technology and horizon support to the wider Company and will be introducing some innovative capabilities to the Company as a test bed for "marginal gains" efficiency tools that will make some process activity simpler and more intuitive.
He was previously in post in Northamptonshire from September 2016 and prior to that was in private industry, with a career spanning over 25 years in the technology space. He worked at SME and Enterprise level working for major technology corporates, and also started and grew a digital consultancy. A common thread throughout his career is describing and delivering innovative and disruptive technology, working with senior stakeholders. He understands technology potential, and can explain it in plain language to business leaders.
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Rebecca Cordery, Administrative Assistant
Becky joined the Company as Administrative Assistant in March, 2019.
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Her role is to provide secretarial and administrative support to the team, including answering email and telephone enquires, organising internal and external meetings, assisting with booking arrangements/ travel and updating Company databases. Becky also acts as front of house, greeting visitors and taking responsibility of stationary, catering and courier services, and post.
This is her first office role as all her other previous jobs have been customer service based where she spent the majority of her time dealing with customers face to face. Becky is a recent graduate from the University of Southampton where she studied Criminology and Psychology.
In her free time, she enjoys watching crime documentaries and fictional crime dramas, and enjoys exploring new places and cultures.
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Nora Davies, Knowledge Manager
Nora's role is to manage the Police ICT Knowledge Hub and website, developing them in accordance with the needs of and feedback from our members. She also works with our Communications Manager to manage our social media presence.
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Nora, a self-confessed geek, has several years of experience improving public and private sector websites and loves building a bridge between people on the front end of web technology (i.e. users and stakeholders) and the technical folk who make things happen behind the scenes.
Nora comes to us from the financial sector where she gained experience working with Lloyds Bank and a few small financial services companies where she worked on a multi-million pound online banking revamp and managed various website improvement projects.
Though she is new to Policing, Nora has had involvement with the public sector when she worked on the websites for the Small Business Service, Business Link, the Point of Single Contact and the Learning and Skills Improvement Service, which she helped redesign and promote within its target audience of institutions of further education in England and Wales.
When she is not busy thinking of ways to improve the Knowledge Hub or posting blogs on our site, Nora is partial to a bit of geocaching in the wonderful Surrey countryside.
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Anke Folchert, HR Manager
Anke joined us in April 2019 as Interim HR Manager. She is responsible for all things HR at the Police ICT Company to support staff and management through the next phase of growth.
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She previously worked in HR roles in television production, financial services and film and television distribution.
Her spare time is generally taken up with trying to get fit enough to spend most of her holiday on the ski slopes. She also enjoys watching programmes about archaeology. Her current goal is to learn Danish in order to watch scandi noir crime series without subtitles.
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Gavin Gardner, Finance Officer
Gavin joined the company in April 2017 initially on a temporary basis and works closely with the Business Manager to assist in providing a full range of finance and business support services. His background is mainly in banking and he joined Lloyds Bank in 1983 in what was then the Foreign Exchange department and spent several years learning all the relevant back office functions. This included foreign payments, various types of trading contracts and keeping track of the foreign exchange dealers position so they could trade effectively.
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He then joined a small team within Lloyds Bank that administered a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) which was a company set up between the bank and part of the UK Treasury whose purpose was to refinance UK Government guaranteed loans.
In 2015 Gavin moved to Capita and helped to run a contract they had with the Financial Conduct Authority to manage their treasury functions and also assist Barnet Council with their treasury management.
Gavin is married to Nicola and has a daughter Grace and when not working enjoys travelling to foreign countries, especially Turkey. He also enjoys music festivals and is a keen cook.
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Anna Horne, Communications Manager
Anna's role is to lead work on the Company’s communications strategy and implementation plans. She leads on all the communications elements of stakeholder engagement, media relations and event planning, as well as the Company's marketing materials. Her role is key to making sure that the Company's work within policing is communicated in the most efficient and effective way to its national stakeholders.
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Joe Kelly, Project Manager
As part of our business development team, Joe works with both suppliers and policing to bring about more efficient, innovative and collaborative use of technology. Work he is currently involved in includes leading on the management of the national “Access for All” agreement, to generate services and efficiencies for policing, and the MPS Digital 101 work.
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He has previously been strongly involved in The Company’s Police Innovation Fund and Transformation Fund projects.
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Cara Levin, PA
Cara provides executive diary management to the Chief Executive, while also offering administration support to the team. She is responsible for managing diaries, setting up meetings, greeting clients, formatting and sending out documents, ordering stationery and dealing with new enquires. Cara joined the team in December 2016 from Keystone Law.
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In her spare time, Cara enjoys going to the gym, attending West Ham United games and walking her Shih Tzu dog ‘Bubbles’ down the seafront.
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Kyle Massingham, Technical Design Authority
Kyle joined the Company in November 2016 as Solutions Architect working on a national shared storage bid between the Company and West Yorkshire Police. Since then Kyle has been involved with helping the Company manage its IT managed service provider (MSP) and provide technical direction and assurance on the technology it uses. As part of his current role, he continues to develop the relationship with the MSP but also more widely with national programmes such as the National Enablers Programmes (NEP) and Transforming Forensics (TF).
Recently Kyle joined the NEP Solution Design Authority after working closely with both NEP and our MSP to implement the national policing designs for Office 365. He also works with TF architects and TDA’s to offer guidance on the policing landscape and design decisions.
Past roles have seen Kyle undertake Infrastructure and Programme Management at West Yorkshire Police and Transport for London.
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Charles McKay, Head of Service Delivery
Charles comes to the Police ICT Company to oversee and lead on the operational and commercial direction for the Company, building a strategy for a joined up ICT infrastructure and the delivery of a coherent technological tool set that is fit for purpose to use across the police forces of the UK.
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A graduate of Portsmouth and Leeds Universities, Charles has been in the criminal justice arena for nearly three decades, starting with ten years a police officer working in a variety of disciplines within the Metropolitan Police Service. Following this, he spent 12 years as an ICT leader in the civil service working with the MoJ, NOMS, IPS and the Home Office and, most recently, has also successfully led the Justice Division within Vodafone.
Outside of work, Charles has worked for numerous disability charities, is a member of his local residents’ association and coaches junior rugby with his young son and daughter.
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Ben Nelson, Head of Commercial
Ben is responsible for all aspects of the company’s commercial activity, both internal and external, with a remit to drive commercial benefit and efficiency across policing. He aims to do this through working with suppliers to recognise policing as a single customer and therefore to drive greater economies of scale.
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He has extensive experience within the justice sector over the last 10 years, having supported large-scale infrastructure projects within the Ministry of Justice, the National Police Improvement Agency and the Home Office, building a strong working relationship with the operational policing and supplier community.
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Dipesh Parmar, Digital Community Officer
Dipesh joined the company in September 2018 as the Digital Community Officer and comes from a wide and varied background as a Digital Media Specialist. He has worked in web development, digital media and technology training with a with a BSC focused in Digital Media Technology from Nottingham Trent University. Since graduating he has been heavily involved in the digital media and technology arena.
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For several years Dipesh has been a freelance digital media specialist and has been providing hardware/software support as well as service delivery and maintenance for small businesses in his local community, bringing them into the digital age by building and maintaining custom hardware, websites, web services and holding technology training sessions for his clients.
Dipesh has a real passion for technology, be it bleeding edge or retro and is another self-professed geek on the team. He has worked with and been a part of some exciting projects in the past such as launching one of the world’s first Google Stores as a Senior Google Specialist. Here he helped the public and the retail sector learn and understand different technologies and services offered to them by Google.
Outside of work Dipesh enjoys going to the gym and building functional strength as well as going to watch the most exciting team in football today, Chelsea FC. He also enjoys creating 3D environments and digital sculptures and is an avid gamer.
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Marie Perry, Governance Officer
Marie joined the Company in 2016, taking on the role of Governance Officer in November 2017. Marie supports the Head of Corporate Strategy and Policy and is responsible for ensuring the Company complies with all relevant policies, quality assurance, and leads on embedding a rigorous approach to risk management. She also works alongside the Head of Corporate Strategy and Policy with the management, production of papers and arrangements for the Company Board, Committees and Annual General Meeting.
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Prior to joining the Company, Marie worked in finance after receiving a degree in Business Finance from Durham University.
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Tamsin Posteraro, Deputy Head of Commercial
Tamsin joined the Company in October 2018 to support the Head of Commercial in managing the tactical and strategic issues related to the commercial and procurement elements of the Company. She helps manage the Company's commercial activities through negotiation with various stakeholders, delivering and developing commercial procedures and policies and ensuring commercial agreements are legally sound.
She began her career working in crime and investigations at Irwin Mitchell solicitors and then moved away from criminal law into a career in commercial with a strong focus on defence and security. She has worked for Rolls-Royce in defence aerospace and nuclear submarines; general dynamics in C4I and Leonardo in cyber security. Most recently Tamsin offered private sector expertise into the Joint Security and Resilience Centre within the Home Office, working to create a joint response to national security challenges.
Outside of work, Tamsin is a mentor for children in foster care and also interested in mindfulness, yoga and meditation and the powerful impact that this can have.
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Michael Russell, Head of Finance and Company Secretary
Michael is an experienced leader who has worked for more than 30 years in roles involving setting up, establishing and running business support services, governance and delivering business change.
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Michael is the Company’s Head of Finance and Company Secretary, which involves providing a full range of finance and business support services, being responsible for business governance including support to the Company Board and acting as the Company Secretary.
After 25 years working in blue chip insurance companies in the private sector in business support and change roles Michael joined the policing family in 2003 working for the national police training organisation followed by the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) and the College of Policing.
In a 38-year career, Michael has built a strong portfolio of financial management experience including:
- Many examples of establishing and running a range of business support including the full set of finance functions, HR, ICT, procurement, performance and planning, marketing, project and portfolio services.
- Management accounting experience in large departments with budgets of £3m+.
- Significant experience of investment accounting in portfolio and programme roles with an investment budget exceeding £10m pa and analytical oversight of a portfolio budget of £100m+.
- More recently, an expanded set of financial responsibilities across the full range of finance functions including tax and treasury.
Michael has a chartered insurance qualification, is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute and has achieved PRINCE2 and Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) accreditations.
Outside of work Michael is married with a son and twin girls, he loves live music, is an enthusiastic collector of vinyl records and has a collection of 10 electric and acoustic guitars that he plays loudly and very badly. Michael has been a long-suffering supporter of Charlton Athletic football club for 45 years and is a regular visitor to Wasps RFC.Read less
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Delia Santhikumar, Programme Management Officer
Delia joined the Company in November 2017 as a Programme Management Officer (PMO). Her role is to drive in-house projects/programme governance and performance monitoring, and risk management across the business service(s) to align with the Company’s vision, objectives and Key Performance Indicators.
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Delia has served both public and private sector and has over ten years’ experience in data audit and business analysis, ICT Programme and Portfolio management, and Transformation and Change Management, providing consultancy and specialist advice to support and develop action in response to specific needs. She is also an Anatomic Pathologist practitioner with 15 years of experience and has a strong background in Clinical and Public Health environments.
During her spare time she participates in the local farmers market to sell baked treats, and volunteers at various homelessness/vulnerable people’s shelters and kitchens across London.
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Lynne Spiers, Head of Corporate Strategy and Policy
Lynne joined the Company in July 2015, on secondment from the Home Office. Originally brought in as Policy Manager to help set up the Company, like many of the early team, Lynne turned her hand to many different things.
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One of these was to manage the Company’s contribution to the Police Innovation and Transformation Funds – including working with the Home Office and College of Policing to review and revise the process, providing support to those forces applying for funding, and helping the Company to develop and submit bids with lead forces. Lynne also worked closely with the Communications Manager to plan and deliver the Company’s very successful annual Summit in 2017.
Lynne’s role is now as Executive Secretariat to the Company’s CEO and Chief Operating Officer. As well as supporting the Executive Team to deliver the Company’s objectives, Lynne also leads on various ad-hoc projects and is currently leading on the Company’s response to, and engagement with, the current Home Affairs Select Committee Inquiry, “Policing for the Future: changing Demands and New Challenges”.
Lynne’s 28-year career in the Home Office means that she has a broad range of experience to bring to bear, including work in policing (as Head of Neighbourhood Policing Policy), Security and Counter Terrorism, Immigration and Asylum. Secondments to Parliament (working on the Environmental Audit Select Committee) and the Foreign Office (a short-term secondment to Moscow) have also broadened Lynne’s experience in other aspects of government.
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