Senior Management Team:
Ben Goss, CEO & Co-founder
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, Chief Product Officer and Co-founder
Patrick is responsible for product development, customer support and customer proposition development.
Patrick is an experienced software designer and has been producing commercial software for over ten years.
Prior to Distribution Technology, he consulted to a number of global companies such as ABN AMRO, Ernst & Young, Unilever and PricewaterhouseCoopers, specialising in enterprise CRM, particularly in the financial services arena.
Before coming to the UK from Australia, Patrick ran a private software house producing financial and property analysis software, and consulting to the Queensland State Government. Patrick trained as a commercial projects lawyer.
Mike Clifford, Chief Operating Officer
Mike is responsible for the management of our delivery capability and data centre operations. With over 15 years experience in the financial services industry, Mike brings expert knowledge of wealth management and IT programme delivery to Distribution Technology.
Mike has held many senior positions with a variety of financial services companies, and was previously with National Australia Bank, where he was Programme Director responsible for the £40 million wealth management programme.
Prior to this, Mike was with CGI, defining their wealth management product and business strategies.
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 & Co-founder
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.
Tony Kennedy, UK Sales Director
Tony runs the UK sales team and has overall responsibility for all client relationships. He joined Distribution Technology in 2005 as Client Director, and has been instrumental in growing their enterprise presence. Tony was appointed Sales Director in May 2008.
Previously to Distribution Technology, he was Client Director at Marlborough Stirling and latterly Liberata.
He is a graduate of Warwick University, where he received an honours degree in pure Mathematics.
