Who we are

Ken co-founded Tectrade in 1991 and pioneered the move from mainframe and mid-range server sales into data protection and storage solutions. He moved from CEO to executive chairman in 2012.  He combines a strong finance background with strategic management, working closely with Alex, the current CEO.

Ken thrives on change, balancing our legacy of delivering innovative and robust solutions with the rapidly evolving demands of the modern data-driven economy.

Alex joined Tectrade in 1999 as a Specialist Technical Consultant, drawing on his background as an engineer to ably assist our clients with data protection, backups and recovery.

Over the next 18 years, he worked his way up through roles in our sales and technical departments – including Head of Pre-Sales and CTO – before taking the helm as our CEO in 2012. 

You can see the legacy of his hard work throughout the company; from our industry-leading managed services portfolio, to our scalable service delivery model, and the robust management structure that’s let us take our success and growth in our stride.

Paul has been in IT for almost 30 years, spending 25 of those with our partner IBM, and ultimately running its entire storage business for the UK and Ireland. Today, Paul helps make sure our clients stay at the forefront of everything we do – combining deep, wide-ranging business experience with an undimmed love of talking to organisations, and understanding their challenges, first-hand.

A seasoned manager and motivator, Paul believes in the power of a united team, and the value of recognizing everyone’s individual strengths. 

Ayaila manages global customer accounts, directs our US sales strategy, and trains our sales teams to deliver ever greater value to our customers. Her rare talent is also demonstrated by the speed with which she’s risen through our ranks – from her first role ten years ago, as a sales caller, to managing her own clients, helming our marketing communications, and now spearheading our sales team in the US.

Along the way, she’s developed a deep understanding of all sides of our business, from the commercial, to the technical, and even more importantly, of our customers and their needs.  

Marie has a passion for invigorating organisations with a strong focus on strategy, innovation and hands on business rejuvenation. Marie joined us in 2018 as our CMO bringing nearly twenty years of experience in technology and cyber security across both government and commercial organisations with award winning results. 

Marie has held many senior management roles in both large corporates and small start-ups. Her unique ability of taking technical products, developing market winning propositions, building teams from scratch and delivering outbound profile and campaigns, has successfully delivered increased profile and revenue for organisations such as Digital Barriers, BAE Systems, Siemens and now Tectrade.

Richard has a passion for solving business problems using a combination of great people and the right technology. Richard joined us in 2017 as our CTO and brought over 15 years’ experience in the technology industry.

Richard leads the technical side of the business driving product and service innovation and building strategic partnerships with key vendors.  He has an eclectic background in data centre, workspace productivity technologies, telephony, and contact centres.  On his journey to Tectrade, Richard has worked for large vendors and systems integration businesses and held roles in pre-sales, portfolio management, and latterly strategic alliances. 

Lee is responsible for managing the managed services portfolio, joining Tectrade from Rackspace in 2018, where over the past nine years he has held Senior Leadership positions across each of their SMB and Enterprise segments, helping to shape the support and service delivery teams serving these customers. Maturing Service Management capability to help increase customer satisfaction, and improve retention, has been a key focus area with some of the larger Enterprise clients.  

With over 20 years of Operational and Service Management experience, Lee comes with in-depth experience across several Telco, Networking and Hosting sectors with key focus around Operational effectiveness, customer retention and continual product adoption. 

Ryan has specialized in data protection and storage for over 20 years. In that time, he’s witnessed the birth – and helped with the adoption –  of centralized storage, virtualization, software-defined infrastructure and big data analytics. 

Today, Ryan oversees our programmes and contracts, taking ultimate responsibility for the management of our customer projects and our compliance, legal and procurement processes. Previously Ryan ran the services desk team managing 500k+ backups per month as well as hours of technical consultancy and product integration.

Nicola guides and manages our HR services – making sure the policies, procedures and programmes we create support our goals and objectives, match our ethos, and feed our culture. Nicola joined our team in 2004 as a project manager, forging strong relationships with every part of our company, and delivering on our clients highest expectations. From here she has transformed our own approach to HR, building a truly strategic HR function, and is a key partner to our business.

Nicola’s passion for strategic improvement is matched by a passion for the human side of her job; from noticing when members of our team are struggling, to championing their best ideas, and generally putting smiles back on faces.