Transactis

David SteeleChief Executive Officer

David has over 15 years experience in leadership roles within customer loyalty and marketing services organisations, and has an impressive track record of building businesses. Prior to joining Transactis, David was Managing Director UK Retail, at Dunhumby Ltd, where he led their strategic and commercial engagement with Tesco, and General Manager of Dunhumby Ireland Ltd where, over an 18 month period, he doubled revenues and profitability.

As CEO of Transactis, David is responsible to the shareholders for setting and driving the company’s data led strategy and Vision, embedding a client centric culture, building an industry leading management team, delivering the agreed corporate goals and objectives (financial and non-financial), overseeing the day to day operation and delivering sustainable growth and incremental shareholder value.

Gareth WilliamsFinance Director

A Fellow Chartered Accountant with a Degree in Economics and Accounting Gareth started his career in Deloittes (audit, business services and management consultancy) and left to take a Finance Director role at Argyll Foods northern wholesale business. Following this, Gareth then joined Littlewoods Stores as Financial Planning Controller and was later involved in the development of the Littlewoods Property portfolio.

Gareth joined Transactis in 1998 as Finance Director, where he has responsibility for managing the entire accounting function, including the development of effective financial policies and procedures. He is also involved in the strategic planning and delivery of group forecasts and budgets, and ensures the company meets all its financial and legal obligations while providing advice and guidance on financial strategy.

Peter ThompsonCommercial Director

Peter joined the Transactis management team in December 2009 from consulting firm Everymind, where he helped organisations implement processes to improve client management.

Peter has successfully led sales and account management teams in the advertising and marketing sector for over 20 years. Peter was Commercial Director of Experian’s Prospect Targeting business, helping a wide range and scale of clients maximise ROI from data-driven marketing activity.

As Commercial Director at Transactis, Peter is responsible for leading the commercial growth of the business. He will identify and pursue all opportunities for client development and will ensure that all products and services developed by Transactis are focused on solving real business issues for clients.

Dave WebberProduct & Marketing Director

Dave joined Transactis in 2006 as Product & Marketing Director. In this role he was pivotal in the launch, development and implementation of Vision, our market-leading prospect and customer database solution. Dave was also key in establishing strategic partnerships with clients such as Damart and Reader’s Digest.

Dave has overall responsibility for the development and release of new products, and also ensures existing solutions are adding maximum value for our clients and meeting the needs of the wider market.

Previously, Dave worked at Equifax, first within risk management and later as Head of Marketing Products where he was key in identifying and growing innovative data solutions for the direct marketing industry.

James GallacherIT Director

James is a commercially driven executive director of information services with over 20 years experience. Throughout his career he has set the agenda for business and ICT transformational change for some of the most dynamic retail, telecommunications and financial services organisations in the UK and western Europe including O2, BT Cellnet, Phones4U Group, Intrum Justitia and DX Communications.

As IT Director and member of the executive board at Transactis, James is responsible for setting the strategy for information services and enterprise architecture to leverage customer value from the award winning database marketing and customer insight platforms. His responsibilities extend to support of business change and new product development as well as day to day operational management of the data centre and IT support functions.

John SharmanCommercial Director

John is a customer data and anti-fraud expert who joined Transactis in April 2011 as Commercial Director for the new, fast-growing fraud solutions business. He is responsible for the development of innovative and data-driven fraud prevention services and will drive Transactis’s move into the anti-fraud space. In addition to developing new anti-fraud platforms, John will also be exploring new industry partnerships that can provide key support in the battle against fraud.

John joins Transactis following a two year spell at Fraudscreen where he was in charge of sales and marketing strategy. Prior to that, John was sales and marketing director of the integrated marketing division of Experian and spent 12 years with address management software specialist QAS.