Ges Whitmore former Chief Executive of the Exchange and Group Director at Marlborough Stirling PLC has joined Distribution Technology as its Chairman. Ges has joined the board of the financial planning software company along with Neil Brown, former head of financial services at Apax Partners and a former director of The Exchange and Crisp Computing Limited.
Their appointments mark the next stage in development for the company, further strengthening its board at a time of rapid growth. They join fellow non-executives; Robert Suttie, former IT director at Axa Sun Life and Campbell Edgar, the immediate past President of the Institute of Financial Planning.
Ben Goss, Managing Director said, “Ges brings an enormous amount of experience and insight to our business and we are delighted that he has returned to the advice technology business as our chairman. Ges has worked with many of the UK’s largest financial institutions and is an extremely well respected industry figure. He also founded and grew Crisp Computing into the UK’s pre-eminent financial planning and point-of-sale technology company and as a result brings unique expertise that will be enormously beneficial to our clients.”
Ges Whitmore said; “Distribution Technology has achieved an enormous amount and has an impressive management team and blue chip client list. The Dynamic Planner technology is uniquely powerful and I am confident that it will become the de facto standard for financial planning tools in this country.”
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