Directors

Martin Brooks image Martin Brooks
Chairman

Martin Brooks was CEO of Financial Times Information, now Interactive Data Corporation, the world's leading supplier of securities valuation data (1994-98). Prior to that he was MD of Extel Financial Ltd; part of a career spanning 30 years in newspapers, information publishing and IT, which started at the Financial Times in 1977. He chaired the publishing arm of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales until 2002 and has also been a non executive director of AFX News Ltd and of FTSE International Ltd.

Richard Kellett-Clarke image Richard Kellett-Clarke
Chief Executive Officer

Richard Kellett-Clarke has 25 years of directorial experience. He joined IDOX full time as CFO in 2006, followed by MD of the software division later that year. He became COO in 2007 before becoming CEO in November 2007. Before this he has held a number of CFO appointments with Brady plc, Extel Financial Ltd (part of Pearson PLC), Eurotherm Ltd (part of Invensys plc), and Pickwick Group plc. In addition he was a founder and Managing Director of AFX NEWS Ltd a global financial news agency (now part of Thomson Reuters), IT Director of Financial Times Information, and founding director of Sealed Media Ltd. a DRM Internet start up (now part of Oracle).

William Edmondson
Chief Financial Officer

William Edmondson previously spent 7 years at Autodesk inc., latterly as Finance Director for the Europe, Middle-East, India & Africa region. Autodesk inc. is the world's leader in 2D and 3D Design software. Prior to that he was a divisional controller at ITV plc and Finance Director of a Technology start-up focused on e-security. He is a UK Chartered Accountant, having trained at PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

Christopher Wright image Christopher Wright
Non-Executive Director

Christopher Wright is Chairman of EMAlternatives LLC in Washington DC, an emerging markets focused private equity asset management firm and a director of Merifin Capital Group, a private European investment firm.

Until mid-2003 he served as Head of Global Private Equity for Dresdner Kleinwort Capital and was a Group Board Member of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson working in New York, London and Frankfurt with responsibility for c$5bn in alternative assets in developed and emerging markets. He acted as Chairman of various investment funds prior to and following the latter's integration with Allianz A.G.

He is also non-executive Chairman of Maxcess International Corporation and of Yatra Capital Ltd (Euronext). Mr Wright has been a director of venture backed companies on both sides of the Atlantic and chaired advisory boards of technology focused investment funds.

Mr Wright was educated at Oxford University and holds a Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance. He is Foundation Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Peter Lilley image Rt. Hon. Peter Lilley MP
Non-Executive Director

Peter Lilley, MP for Hitchin and Harpenden, was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Ministers for Local Government and after a period at the Treasury served as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and Secretary of State for Social Security until 1997. He is a Non-Executive Director of Melchior Japan Investment Trust plc, Deputy Chairman of Tethys Petroleum Ltd and a Member of the Advisory Board of the School of Management at the University of Southampton. He is the senior independent Non-Executive Director of IDOX and chairs the Audit Committee.