The Board

Appointed to the Board: 2023

Committee membership: The Board Chair attends all Committee meetings as a guest.

Skills and experience

Martin was appointed as Gamma’s Chair on 1 July 2023. He joined Softcat plc in 2006 and held executive positions until 2018 as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, during which he led the Company through a highly successful IPO and its first two years as a PLC.

He took on the role of Chair of Softcat in 2018 and stood down at the end of July 2023. Prior to Softcat, Martin spent 13 years at Computacenter plc, where he was responsible for the marketing function, ran Computacenter’s French subsidiary and led acquisitions in the United Kingdom, Belgium and Germany.

Other roles

Martin is Chair of Raspberry Pi Holding plc.

Nationality British

Appointed to the Board: 2014

Committee membership: ESG

Skills and experience

Andrew has served as Gamma’s Group Chief Executive Officer since 2022, having previously held the role of Group Chief Financial Officer. He has played a significant role in the Group’s growth and financial development, leading its evolution into a pan-European provider of business-critical communications technology.

Andrew began his career in audit and corporate finance at Deloitte LLP and Ernst & Young, where he advised a broad range of technology sector clients. He subsequently moved into industry, joining Xansa plc in a business development role before joining Gamma in 2007 as Finance Director for the UK Channel business.

He holds a first-class degree in Mathematics from St John’s College, Cambridge and an MBA from Warwick Business School. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Other roles

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Nationality British

Appointed to the Board: 2022

Skills and experience

Bill joined Gamma in 2022 from OVO Energy, where he held the role of Chief Financial Officer. Before joining OVO Energy in 2020, Bill spent three years at Virgin Media which he joined as Deputy Chief Financial Officer and later became acting Chief Financial Officer. From 2005 to 2017, Bill was at Barclays Bank where he held a number of senior finance roles including Chief Financial Officer at Barclays Corporate Bank and Chief Financial Officer of Barclaycard Europe.

Bill started his career as an Officer in the British Army and, as a qualified accountant (FCA), has worked in the technology, media and telecom sector as an auditor at Deloitte and investment banker with Goldman Sachs.

Bill is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Other roles

Bill is also a Non-Executive Director of the Financial Ombudsman Service.

Nationality: British

Appointed to the Board: 2022

Committee membership: Remuneration (Committee Chair), Audit & Risk, Nomination

Skills and experience

Rachel has nearly 30 years of finance and operational management experience. She has held several senior financial, operational and board level roles including at Future plc (CFO), TI Media Limited (CFO), Reach Regionals (Managing Director), Local World Limited (CFO and COO), Northcliffe Media Limited (CFO and COO) and Boots the Chemist where she was Head of Risk Management.

Rachel is a chartered accountant and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Other roles

Rachel is currently a non-executive director of Hollywood Bowl plc, a leading international leisure operator of ten-pin bowling centres; Watkin Jones plc, housing developer and manager of student and build to rent accommodation; Tapir Holdings plc, a strategic investment holding company; and Wates Group, a privately owned construction, residential development and property services business.

Nationality: British

Appointed to the Board: 2020

Committee membership: Audit & Risk (Committee Chair), Nomination

Skills and experience

Charlotta began her career at Ernst & Young, where she qualified as a Chartered Accountant. She was then appointed to a series of senior roles in investment banking with UBS, Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan both in London and Singapore, where she gained considerable M&A transactional experience.

Charlotta has also held senior roles within Nokia Corporation, including acting as CFO of its luxury mobile phone division Vertu Corporation Limited.

Other roles

Charlotta is a non-executive director of XP Power Limited, JPMorgan India Growth & Income plc, VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund Limited and Boku Inc (AIM).

While Charlotta currently serves on five boards, two of these appointments are with investment trusts that typically hold no more than four or five board meetings a year and accordingly she has sufficient capacity to devote appropriate time and attention to each role.

Nationality: Finnish/British

Appointed to the Board: 2020

Skills and experience

Xavier is a senior private equity professional with more than 25 years of experience in M&A and investment deal experience across Europe and the US. He is the Chief Investment Officer of the global private equity firm Bridgepoint and sits on the Executive and Investment Committees. Previously Xavier was in charge of technology investment globally for Bridgepoint.

Other roles

Xavier is chair of Qualitest, the largest privately owned software testing company. He is also on the boards of Kyriba, the number one software solution for corporate treasury management; MiQ, the number one programmatic advertising company; and 73Strings, a leading software solution for asset managers.

Nationality: French

Appointed to the Board: 2022

Committee membership: ESG (Committee Chair), Remuneration

Skills and experience

Shaun has had an extensive career across media, advertising and telecommunications spanning over 30 years. He has held senior roles across Emap PLC, Telegraph Media Group, Blyk and Telefonica. More recently, he has been the CEO of EMG Group, Exterion Media and IYUNO Media Group.

Shaun has also been a Non-Executive Director on many company boards, including WEVE, Telefonica’s WAYRA, Ocean Outdoor, Bliss Media and Proxama. He has also served on a number of Trade Body Boards, including the MMA and the Advertising Association.

Shaun studied at both Ashridge and Wharton Business School.

Other roles

Shaun is currently non-executive chair of Acclaro, a US-based translation services and localisation technologies company; an independent non-executive director of HYGH, a digital advertising business based in Germany; non-executive chair of MVF, a media and marketing company; an independent non executive director of eSIMGo, an eSIM technology provider; a board member of Childline (NSPCC); and chairs the Advisory Board for The Sheffield Children’s Hospital.

Nationality: British

Appointed to the Board: 2026

Committee membership: Audit & Risk

Skills and experience

Chris has over 35 years’ operational and advisory experience in the telecommunications and technology sectors. He spent two decades at BT Group, including periods in its German business, before holding senior executive positions at Eurotel, Daisy Group, SSE Telecoms (now Neos Networks) and Azzurri Communications.

His most recent executive role was as Chief Executive Officer of Redcentric plc, the AIM-listed IT Managed Services provider, from October 2017 to November 2018. Since then, Chris has held roles at a number of private and private equity-backed companies.

Other Roles

Chris currently retains chair positions on smaller businesses which operate in the telecommunications and technology sectors, including Indigo, a specialist managed and professional service provider; and Vaioni, network provider and digital transformation business.

Nationality: British

Rachael was appointed as Company Secretary of Gamma in January 2023 having previously gained governance experience in a variety of large multinational listed groups, most recently at GSK plc and Videndum plc. As Company Secretary, she is responsible for advising the Board, through the Chair, on all governance matters.

She is a Fellow of the Chartered Governance Institute and has a Masters degree in Business and Management from the University of Glasgow.