Bolden James

Martin Sugden - Chief Executive Officer

Martin joined Boldon James in July 1998 as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and a board director, and was promoted to General Manager in May 2002. In early 2005, he led the Management Buyout (MBO) of Boldon James backed by ISIS Equity Partners. Prior to joining, Martin was the CFO of two LSE-listed companies focusing on strategic development and improving the performance of subsidiaries. The first of these companies he floated. He began his career with Ernst & Young qualifying as a Chartered Accountant and has held significant business development roles in a number of blue chip UK and US companies. Martin has an honours degree in Economics and Geography from Bradford University.                       

Richard Bailey - Development Director

Richard joined Boldon James in 1987 as a software developer and by 1999 had taken ownership of the Development division, with a responsibility for over 30 consultants. He has over 25 years experience in software engineering across a variety of business sectors. Richard graduated from UMIST in 1979 with a First Class Honours degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and also gained an MSc in Factory Automation from UMIST in 1986. On graduation he joined Lucas Electrical working on projects in the automotive industry and then held other software engineering roles with RETIS Real-time Software and BAe Systems/UMIST developing distributed software-based control systems for the manufacturing industry.

Katherine Kay - Finance Director

Katherine joined Boldon James in 1998 as Financial Controller and was promoted to Group Financial Controller in 1999 as the company expanded to include subsidiaries in the US, South Africa, Norway, Russia, France and Jordan. Katherine has gained extensive systems experience managing and controlling the implementation of a new finance system which she subsequently rolled out to all subsidiaries. Katherine graduated from Birmingham University in 1990 with a BSc in Geography. She then qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst and Young in 1994. Since leaving she has worked solely within the IT sector managing busy finance departments.

Brett Gribble - Global Sales Director

Brett joined Boldon James in May 2009 to realign Sales and Marketing strategy in order to address both new and existing markets for Boldon James. He has been in the IT industry for over 18 years, the last 7 of which have been spent focused on Information Security. He has held senior positions at Integralis, Titus Labs & M86 Security and has also consulted for both IBM and Oracle, providing direct marketing and channel strategy.

Keith Vallance - Product Director

Keith joined Boldon James in February 2010 as Product Director to strengthen our product focus. Keith joins us from SWIFT, the Financial Messaging provider, where he helped establish the Product Innovation function. He has 30 years experience in the messaging and IS Security business and has held senior product positions at companies such as Messagelabs and Clearswift.