Meet the Team
Managing Director
Daniel Bumby
Daniel is responsible for delivering shareholder value & has over 20 + years experience in the technology sector in senior positions.
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Loves, Music production & The Blades
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Hates, butter & heights
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Dream car, Aston Martin DB5 James Bond edition
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Favourite film, The Fugitive or anything with Harrison Ford in it
Commercial Director
Jason Garner
Jason is responsible for all things commercial here at Simoda, working with customers & our Technology Consultants to ensure we deliver customer success.
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Loves, Weekends with the kids, Weekends without the kids
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Hates, Marmite, Admin
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Dream Car, Aston Martin DB11 in British racing green
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Favourite film, V for Vendetta
Technology Solutions Director
Lee Wragg
Lee is responsible for introducing & managing technology solutions into Simoda, Lee has over 20+ years of IT industry knowledge, he learnt from Daniel.
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Loves, Reparing watches & fishing
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Hates, Winter & Pernod
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Dream Car, Aston Martin Vantage Convertible
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Favourite film, Commando
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Services Director
John Delamore
With a passion for service delivery John's key responsibilities are to ensure project & service success, this includes the delivery of Simoda Support Services.
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Loves, Italian food, Holidays in the sun
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Hates, Lateness & Lazyness
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Dream car, Mercedes G Wagon
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Favourite film, Man on fire
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Commercial Manager
Claire Malcolm
Claire is the glue between our Technology consultants & our customers and is responsible for ensuring we meet the high standards we expect.
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Loves, Horses & Renovating properties
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Hates, Bullies & spiders
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Dream car, New Landrover Defender
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Favourite film, Oliver Twist
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Technology Consultant Dev Manager
Christian Colton
With over 20+ years in the technology industry Christian is a vastly experienced technology specialist. Christian is highly qualified in the delivery of video conferencing solutions and many other Simoda solutions and services.
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Loves, Red wine & family
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Hates, Peanut butter & bullies
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Dream car, Aston Martin DB5
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Favourite film, Forrest Gump
IT Support Account Manager
Paul Gardiner
Paul is part of our Services Team and is our IT Support Account Manager for ensuring our customers are receiving the very best service and on-boarding new businesses to the IT managed services team.
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Loves, Live music & Road trips
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Hates, Grapefruit & Idiots
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Dream car, VW campervan
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Favourite film, Alien
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Cabling Team Manager
Matthew Fearn
Matt is responsible for the delivery of our I.T services projects. Matt is a fully qualified network & certified cabling engineer.
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Loves, Sheffield Wednesday & Drilling
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Hates, Sheffield United & low quality power tools
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Dream car, VW Transporter T32
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Favourite film, Moana
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Digital Marketing Executive
Harrison King
Harrison is our digital marketing executive and responsible for maintaining & growing our social media presence. He also works with Simoda's software partners to help deliver successful campaigns.
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Loves, Football & Cars
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Hates, Beans & Sheffield Wednesday
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Dream car, Mercedes GLC AMG 63 Coupe
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Favourite film, Commando
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Operations Administrator
Mia Skain
Mia is responsible for operations & facilities, this includes accounts payable & receivable. She is currently studying her AAT accounting qualifications and everyone is nice to Mia because she pays expenses.
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Loves, Dogs & Gigs
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Hates, Spiders & being unorganised
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Dream car, Vintage Mini Cooper
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Favourite film, The Holiday
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Technical Consultant
Wesley Gannon
Wesley works as part of the service delivery team and is responsible for delivering various technology projects for customers including 365 & managed services.
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Loves, Yorkshire puddings & Golf
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Hates, Having a poor round of golf & stubbing his toe
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Dream car, Aston Martin Vantage
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Favourite film, Terminator 2
Technology Consultant
Lucy Bailey
Lucy works in our Commercial team and is responsible for building relationships with businesses & introducing them to Simoda.
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Loves, Horses & Food
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Hates, Queue's & Rain
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Dream car, Bloomfields Horsebox
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Favourite film, One flew over the cuckoo's nest
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Senior Technical Consultant
Matt Harrold
Matt has spent the last 10 years in the IT channel working with technical teams to design & deploy complex solutions including infrastructure, cyber security & databases.
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Loves, Liverpool FC, Spicy food
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Hates, Traffic jams & Untidy racks
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Dream car, Aston Martin DB9
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Favourite film, American Psycho
Technology Consultant
Jordan Clarke
Jordan is responsible for helping our customers understand what technology options are available & is highly skilled in the end user compute arena.
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Loves, Manchester United & Trainers
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Hates, Olives & Liverpool FC
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Dream car, Ferrari F90
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Favourite film, Pulp Fiction
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Company Dog
Indy
Indy is responsible for making everyone in the office feel relaxed and happy, she started her I.T career during the covid-19 lockdown and has not looked back since.
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Loves, chasing balls & food
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Hates, loud noises & cats
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Dream car, anything dad drives because I love him
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Favourite film, Turner & Hooch
2nd Line Helpdesk Engineer
Savannah
Savannah is responsible for our Helpdesk escalations, she has a passion for technology and holds a masters in Cyber Security, you are in good hands here.
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Loves, My Family & Redbull
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Hates, Sushi & Spiders
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Dream car, Audi R8
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Favourite film, The Lion King
Cabling Team Lead
Luke Smith
Luke is responsible for leading one of our cabling teams as part of our IT service delivery team, when not on a job he can be seen tidying his van.
Loves, Food & Using his hands
Hates, Hangovers & Untidiness (no surprise there !)
Dream car, Mercedes
Favourite film, All the Marvel films
Cloud Solutions Specialist
Chris Ash
Chris brings to Simoda years of IT experience including IT manager roles in the education sector, as part of the solutions team, Chris leads on Simoda Cloud projects for customers as well as optimising their public cloud environments and driving cost-efficiencies.
Loves, Sheffield Wednesday & Golf
Hates, Melon & Ignorance
Dream car, Porsche 911
Favourite film, The Martian
Head of Data Intelligence
Tim Latham
Tim is responsible for building & driving the Simoda Data Solutions and AI strategy, Tim brings a wealth of experience to our team and has recently rolled out Copilot for web across the Simoda team. He works with customers on intelligent automation, data and AI-related projects. Tim regularly speaks at data intelligence and AI events and is a thought leader locally on automation, AI, PowerBI and data.
Loves, Golf, IPA & Curry
Hates, Rain & Mushrooms
Dream car, McLaren
Favourite film, Black Hawk Down
Technology Consultant
Kelly Buckle
Working within the Simoda commercial team Kelly is responsible for building mutually beneficial relationships with businesses across the UK.
Loves, Food & Football
Hates, Milk & Getting lost (she has no sense of direction at all)
Dream car, Mercedes A45 AMG
Favourite film, 10 things I hate about you
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Cyber Security Solutions Consultant
Bryn Hawkins
Working as part of the technology solutions team Bryn is our responsible for helping our customers address and solve cyber risk.
Loves, My family & Gin (Bryn owns Hawkins Distillery)
Hates, Fish & Football
Dream car, Ferrari F40
Favourite film, Monty Python's Life of Brian
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Helpdesk Technician
Lewis Utley
Lewis is part of our service delivery team and works closely with our customers to fix support issues at the 1st line. He's had many positive customer testimonials written about him.
Loves, Football Manager, Cheesecake
Hates, Rotherham United, Mint
Dream car, Mitsubishi Lancer evo VII
Favourite film, Toy Story
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Company Dog
Olive The Bulldog
Olive is responsible for instantly melting hearts in the office with her cuteness. She is often found in the kitchen scavenging for food but works hard at building relationships with everyone for extra cuddles and scrap bits of food.
Loves, Sleeping & Cuddles with daddy (Josh)
Hates, People interrupting her sleep
Dream car, Anything insured by Churchill (oh yes)
Favourite film, Superpets
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Head of Customer Relations & Marketing
Kate Hill
Kate is responsible for setting Simoda's marketing strategy and raising awareness of the brand. She works with marketing agencies and many solution partners to deliver campaigns and oversees Simoda's day to day marketing. She is also a specialist expert in sustainability and communications and works with the Directors on compliance, frameworks and Net Zero targets.
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Loves, Sustainability, marketing, networking, being a taxi for my kids cricket and football activities, and Star Trek TNG.
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Hates, Not having anything to do
Dream car, Aston Martin DB9
Favourite film, Star Trek First Contact
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Technical Director
Mark Allenby
Mark is responsible for technical services covering the design, specification and delivery of solutions for our customers. He leads on a number of customer infrastructure project for Simoda and customers regularly contact him to save previously failing projects with other providers. He is an expert in all things IT and infrastructure.
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Loves, Trance music and ferrying my daughter around the country for her football and gaelic football activities
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Hates, Heights and ferrying my daughter around the country for her football and gaelic football activities
Dream car, Ferrari Testarossa
Favourite film, Commando
Head of Communication Solutions
Jon Carr
Jon works in our Technology Solutions team bringing many years of knowledge in delivering successful communications and connectivity solution projects across education, public and private sectors.
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Loves, Apart from the obvious (family & friends) running and holidays in sunny destinations.
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Hates, People who stop walking unexpectedly in busy places and when someone leaves a sheet of paper on a toilet roll rather than changing it.
Dream car, Porsche GT3
Favourite film, Die Hard
Technology Consultant
Craig Denton
Craig is responsible for working with Simoda's existing customers and new prospects to build relationships and understand the businesses that he works with to signpost them to the right solutions specialists, at the right time. He has many connections across local schools and sports clubs.
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Loves, Chinese Food & Red Wine
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Hates, Most vegetables & Cricket
Dream car, Rolls-Royce Boat Tail
Favourite film, Wolf of Wall Street
Technology Consultant
Dave Cook
Dave has more than 20 years of building relationships with customers and helping them understand technology and solutions that suit their business. He works closely with the commercial team at Simoda bringing specific knowledge around working with the Public Sector.
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Loves, Coaching kids Football and House Music
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Hates, Man United and Cold Weather
Dream car, Porsche GT3-RS
Favourite film, Dead Man's Shoes
Technology Consultant
Greg Westran
Greg re-joins Simoda as a Technology Consultant working closely with the commercial team to support businesses with their IT and technology needs. Greg is a key relationship builder and focuses on the most suitable technology solutions based on specific business needs.
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Loves, History & architecture
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Hates, Wasting time & bad breath
Dream car, Nissan GTR R34
Favourite film, Goonies