Our team

Our team is made up of experienced operators and investors, with a background in running software businesses.

We also get on well, which we think is pretty important!

Who we are

Key people you’ll get to know

Gavin Cockerill

CEO

Gavin is a board director. He leads the group and is hands-on once we find an interesting software business, helping to onboard and grow them once they join the Group. Gavin joined the Board in January 2018. He was appointed Group CEO in May 2022.

Iain Brown

CFO

Iain is a board director. He leads our finances. Driving process and systems that help provide performance visibility to our family of businesses. Iain joined the Group in October 2019. He was appointed CFO in September 2023.

Richard Lightfoot

Director & Company Secretary

Richard is a board director. He supports the board and our M&A processes. He’s the Software Circle engine room. Richard was appointed Company Secretary in October 2015 and joined the Board in January 2018.

Roman Rothenberg

M&A Director

Roman leads our M&A process. Finding magnificent software businesses, handholding through to deal completion.

Key people you’ll get to know

Gavin Cockerill

Group CEO

Gavin is a board director. He leads the group and is hands-on once we find an interesting software business, helping to onboard and grow them once they join the Group. Gavin joined the Board in January 2018. He was appointed Group CEO in May 2022.

Gavin Cockerill

Group CEO

Iain is a board director. He leads our finances. Driving process and systems that help provide performance visibility to our family of businesses. Iain joined the Group in October 2019. He was appointed CFO in September 2023.

Gavin Cockerill

Group CEO

Gavin is a board director. He leads the group and is hands-on once we find an interesting software business, helping to onboard and grow them once they join the Group. Gavin joined the Board in January 2018. Was appointed Acting CEO in May 2022 and Group CEO in May 2023.

Gavin Cockerill

Group CEO

Gavin is a board director. He leads the group and is hands-on once we find an interesting software business, helping to onboard and grow them once they join the Group. Gavin joined the Board in January 2018. Was appointed Acting CEO in May 2022 and Group CEO in May 2023.

Our non-executive team

Matthias Riechert

Chairman

Matthias is a founder and Director of P&R Investment Management Limited (“P&R”), an investment advisory firm. Previously, Matthias worked in sales and trading at Citigroup Global Markets for nine years.

He has an MBA from London Business School and Columbia Business School where he specialised in value investing.

Matthias was appointed to the board in October 2022.

Simon Barrell

Non-Executive Director

Simon qualified as a chartered accountant in 1983 and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered accountants in England and Wales. He’s held various posts as Finance Director and has experience across multiple industries working in both the public and private sectors. He has also held numerous non-executive positions for a number of public companies and continues to act as an adviser to listed and non-listed companies. He is currently a non-executive director of SRT Marine Systems plc.

Simon joined the Group in June 2018 as Interim Finance Director and was appointed to the Board as a Non-Executive Director in January 2020.

Brad Ormsby

Non-Executive Director

Brad Ormsby is CFO of Judges Scientific plc, an AIM listed buy and build manufacturing group which has grown from a market cap of £80m to £700m during the nine years Brad has been with the company. Brad has extensive M&A experience including multiple acquisitions at Judges Scientific plc and several international transactions at Eurovestech, a technology venture capital fund. He also led the IPO onto AIM of Kalibrate Technologies, an international software business. He is also a Non-Executive Director of Octopus AIM VCT 2 plc, a FTSE quoted investment fund.

Brad was appointed to the Board in September 2024.

Marc Maurer

Non-executive Director

Marc Maurer is COO of CHAPTERS Group, the Company’s largest shareholder. Marc previously worked at Constellation Software and Hg Capital & TA Associates backed Revalize. Marc oversees all operational leadership of VMS companies within CHAPTERS.

Marc was appointed to the Board in September 2024.