Senior Management Team:
Ben Goss, CEO
Ben is CEO of Distribution Technology and a co-founder of the company. Ben has overseen DT’s growth from concept in early 2003 to its current market leading position as a provider of financial planning and sales technology to over 20 of the UK’s largest banks, life and pensions companies and platforms. DT now supports over 20,000 advisers for these clients.
Prior to Distribution Technology, Ben was UK managing director of mPower, a US company providing e-enabled financial advice solutions. Ben was a strategy and marketing consultant for a number of years with Coopers & Lybrand and then PriceWaterhouseCoopers. He worked primarily on asset management and distribution related initiatives for bancassurers, life companies and fund managers as well as new entrants. He left to found Sort Limited, the UK’s first regulated provider of online financial advice in 1998. Sort was the leading provider in its space before selling to mPower and Capital Z in 2000.
Ben is widely published on the topic of technology and advice and has spoken at a range of industry events. He holds a Masters degree from Indiana University in the US where he was a MacArthur Foundation Scholar.
Patrick FitzGerald, Regional Director, Asia
Patrick is a co-founder of the company. Having previously been in charge of our product development, Patrick now heads up our Asian team in Hong Kong. Patrick is an experienced software designer and has been producing commercial software for over fifteen years.
Prior to Distribution Technology he was the managing director of a consulting company specialising in enterprise CRM, with a particular emphasis on financial services. He developed a client base of global companies such as ABN AMRO, Cogent, Henderson Global Investors, Ernst & Young, Unilever and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
As well as delivering a number of bespoke solutions (especially in mergers and acquisitions and equity capital markets), Patrick’s company also developed a number of risk and compliance products and assisted large programs in wholesale banking through security and audit processes.
Before moving to the UK from Australia, Patrick ran a software company producing financial and property analysis software, and consulted to the Queensland State Government on land tenure analysis and processes.
Patrick initially practised as a commercial projects lawyer in Australia. He holds a Bachelor of Laws from the Queensland University of Technology.
Peter Francis, Chief Finance Officer
Peter Francis is the Chief Financial Officer of Distribution Technology. He is responsible for the overall financial management of the organisation, as well as corporate governance, risk management and people. Peter has 17 years financial management experience within public accounting and US-listed software companies.
He began his career as an Audit Manager at Arthur Anderson, then senior moves as Finance Director at Fourth Shift Corporation and EMEA Finance Director at SoftBrands Corporation.
Sam Strachan, Chief Technology Officer
Sam has overall responsibility for software development including the architecture and development of Distribution Technology’s Planning and Sales Platform and customer implementations. Sam joined Distribution Technology in 2003 as technical architect where he was initially responsible for re-designing the business application tier for core products.
Sam was appointed Chief Technology Officer in January 2008, having been the Software Development Director.
Prior to joining Distribution Technology, Sam consulted independently for clients including ABN Amro and UBS Warburg. He is a graduate of Cambridge University, where he received an honours degree in Social Political Science
Adrian Hall, Research & Development Director
Adrian is a co-founder of Distribution Technology and responsible for researching and assessing new technologies and solutions for incorporation into DT’s planning and sales platform.
Adrian is a veteran technologist with over 20 years of development and systems architecture experience.
His career started as a programmer with the Inland Revenue from where he rapidly progressed to technical consultant on enterprise systems for companies as diverse as British Airways, IBM and Legal & General.
Over recent years Adrian has focused on Microsoft technologies and through his previous business, New Design Technology, he has designed and developed financial services systems for companies such as Prudential, Credit Suisse, Reuters and Sharelink.
David Wadsworth, Delivery Director
David has responsibility for Distribution Technology’s global delivery teams. He joined Distribution Technology in June 2009. David was previously EMEA Delivery Director for FISERV, where he spent 8 years. David began his career at NatWest bank.
