Computacenter

Computacenter Senior Management

 
 
Mike Norris Chief Executive Officer
Mike graduated with a degree in computer science and mathematics from East Anglia University in 1983. He joined Computacenter in 1984 as a salesman in the City office. In 1986 he was Computacenter’s top national account manager. Following appointments as Regional Manager for London operations in 1988 and General Manager of the Systems Division in 1992 with full national sales and marketing responsibilities, he became Chief Executive in December 1994 with responsibility for all day-to-day activities and reporting channels across Computacenter.
 
 
Tony Conophy Group Finance Director
Tony has been a member of the Institute of Chartered Management Accountants since 1982. He qualified with Semperit (Ireland) Ltd and then worked for five years at Cape Industries plc. He joined Computacenter in 1987 as Financial Controller, rising in 1991 to General Manager of Finance. In 1996 he was appointed Finance and Commercial Director of Computacenter (UK) Limited with responsibility for all financial, purchasing and vendor relations activities. In March 1998 he was appointed Group Finance and Commercial Director.
 
 
Non-executive Directors
Philip Hulme
Philip founded Computacenter with Peter Ogden in 1981 and worked for the Company on a full-time basis until stepping down as Executive Chairman in 2001. He is a Director of Dealogic (Holdings) plc and was previously a Vice President and Director of the Boston Consulting Group.
 

Philip Hulme

Ian Lewis
Ian Lewis is currently Director of the University Computing Service at the University of Cambridge. During his career he has held a number of senior positions, including First Vice President and Global Chief Technology Officer of Merrill Lynch's Investment Banking and Sales division. He was previously Director and Global CTO at Dresder Kleinwort Wasserstein Investment Banking and Vice President, European Head of Technology Services at Morgan Stanley. Ian Lewis has a PhD from the University of Cambridge and BSc (Hons.) degree from Queen Mary College at the University of London.
 

Ian Lewis -currently unavailable

Peter Ogden
Peter founded Computacenter with Philip Hulme in 1981 and was Chairman of the Company until 1998, when he became a Non-Executive Director. He is Chairman of Dealogic (Holdings) plc and a Non- Executive Director of Psion plc. Prior to joining Computacenter he was a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley and Co.

 
Peter Ogden

John Ormerod
John Ormerod is currently the senior independent director of Misys Plc. He is a non-executive director of Gemalto NV, where he chairs the Audit Committee, and a member of the Audit Committee of HBOS plc. He is also a director of several private companies. He had a long career with Arthur Andersen culminating as the Regional Managing Partner UK and Ireland. Subsequently, he moved to Deloitte as a Practice Senior Partner, London and a member of the UK Executive Committee and elected Board. John has an Honours degree in Physics from The Queen's College, Oxford.

 
John Ormerod
Cliff Preddy
Cliff has worked in the IT industry for most of his professional career, including many years as an Executive Director of Logica plc. He is Deputy Chairman of Charteris plc, and a Non-Executive Director of CODASciSys plc and Acquisition Accounting Ltd.
 
Cliff Preddy