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Our Directors & Associate Directors

 

The Adastra Directors provides the Company’s strategic direction within an intensely active and fast-moving marketplace.  Our Board has evolved in step with evolution of the Company from its modest beginnings as a two-man enterprise in 1994 to its current scale business employing over 145 people.

Our Directors

Vin Murria

Chief Executive Officer
Vin's career has combined Venture Capital, Private Equity and CEO/ Operational expertise, centered around twenty years of M&A activity in the software sector. Vin is a partner at Elderstreet Capital Partners and chief executive officer of Advanced Computer Software Group plc. Prior to this Vin was European chief operating officer for Kewill Systems Plc and Chairman of Leeds Group Plc. She remains an investor and advisor to a number of quoted and unquoted companies, including Mediasurface plc, and Concateno Plc.

 


James Berry

Chief Technical Officer

Co-founding Director of Adastra - James achieved a first-class Honours Degree in Computer Sciences at the University of Southampton in 1995, finishing top of his year and winning the British Computer Society Prize for Outstanding Achievement. Now responsible for the architecture and design of the Adastra application, James adopts a hands-on approach to development and leads a development team of seven.

 

Jim Chase

Sales & Marketing Director

An experienced Director and Managing Director of IT businesses with over 20 years experience, Jim began his career in IT as a software developer and has since enjoyed a wide variety or technical, service delivery, commercial and leadership roles for AIM Group and CS Group’s Legal Division. Jim’s wealth of experience is being deployed to promote the commercial development of Adastra  as it enters a new and exciting phase of growth and development within the Advanced Computer Software PLC group.

 

 

Adrian Gilson

Contracts & Integration Director

Adrian is an experienced manager with a wide business understanding. He has previously held senior roles in finance and holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration. Adrian joined as General Manager in 2001 before being appointed a director in 2003 and becoming Contracts & Integration Director in October 2008.

Anthony Hayes

Chief Operations Officer

Anthony was previously Network Manager at US Gold and holds various Microsoft, Citrix and Cisco technical certifications.  He is responsible for operations within the company including both delivery and support.  He provides central leadership for Configuration Services, Project Management, Technical Services, Training and User Support.  A core part of his role is to focus on developing close relationships between departments he leads and other areas of Adastra such as Development.

 

David Pepe

Product Director

Following senior positions within multinational organisations, encompassing consultancy, management development and operations, David was recently appointed Product Director with Adastra.

This role enables him to bring his experience of operational improvement and product management to enhance Adastra’s strategic product delivery.

 

 

Lynn Woods

Executive Advisor to the Group Board

Lynn co-founded Adastra with James Berry in 1994.  He had previously enjoyed a 16-year career in the Royal Air Force, leaving as a Squadron Leader in 1988.  In 1992 Lynn was appointed to manage the SEADOC GP Co-operative based in Folkestone.  As SEADOC expanded to eventually cover a 70-mile strip of the south coast as far west as Brighton it became evident that an operational software capability was needed to manage activity over such a wide area, and thus Adastra came into being.

 

 

Dr Alex Yeates MB BS DRCOG

Medical Director

In 1989 he was a co-founder of the pioneering Medway GP Co-operative (MEDDOC), the first of the Kent-based services which were to go on to establish a template for corresponding services to develop across the rest of the UK.  Alex remains an active participant in the Medway service and chairs its Clinical Review Group.  He has also participated in the Department of Health’s Committee for Safety of Medicines developing policy on extended nurse prescribing and in the Out-of-Hours Review Team examining OoH Medicines Supply.

 

 

 
Our Associate Directors
 

Sue Guy
Associate Director of Service Delivery

Sue joined Adastra in April 2001 having previously worked within an NHS Community Trust. She was part of the National Implementation Teams for both the roll out of the ‘Exemplar’ and ‘Technical Links’ projects and has been responsible for setting up our Project Management department which has grown and developed under her leadership and is now an integral part of Adastra’s implementation and service delivery process. From 1st of January 2008 Sue assumed responsibility for overall Service Delivery which encompasses the Training & Configuration and Project Management teams.

 

Dave Fagg 

Associate Director of Service Support  

Dave joined Adastra in Jan 1997 as an Engineer then took up the management of a rapidly growing Technical Services Team. As well as developing the Engineering Team to its current structure of nationally deployed teams, he continues to help spread ITIL best practices throughout Adastra’s Service Delivery and Service Support processes. From 1st March 2008 Dave assumed responsibility for overall Service Support, encompassing the User Support Centre and the Technical Services Teams.