Chairman

John Kavanaugh

John is currently a director of Sabre Insurance Company and of BDML Holdings, Chairman of the Guernsey-based Heritage Group and Chairman of Heritage Underwriting Agency - and has worked in the Lloyds market since 1961. Prior to this, John was deputy Chairman of AON UK Holdings, and also held roles with Bain Hogg Ltd. and Houston Casualty Company London as Chief Executive Officer.

CEO and Founder

Walter Tyser

Starting in 1987 at Huschmann Telecom, Walter has more than 20 years of experience in the telecoms industry. With the agreement of Huschmann, he founded Lowland Telecom in 1990, taking with him several clients and two key engineers. Lowland Telecom subsequently changed its name to BlueSky Technology and had grown into a 120 employee business with a £3.5m turnover by 2001.

At this time, whilst helping southern-based IP Integration to set up a Scottish operation, Walter identified a market requirement for a telecoms expense analysis and management service which was not only accurate but also independent. And in 2002, IntelligentComms was founded as a result. 

Operations Director

Nicola Whiting

As co-founder of IntelligentComms, Nicola is responsible for the all aspects of product and service direction for the company, as well as development and technologies. She has over 17 years of IT and communications experience and a strong technical and engineering background. This essential expertise was vital in developing Veropath, the unique analysis platform for fixed line and mobile communications on which the business is founded.

Head of Sales and Marketing

Mike Marsh

Mike has over 25 years of business and IT-related experience in the financial services and telecommunications industries and is now the Sales and Marketing Director at IntelligentComms. Prior to IntelligentComms, Mike held various management roles including sales, consulting and pre-sales technical support (at country and continental levels) for IBM, HP and Symantec.  Mike has spent much of his career ensuring customers are able to implement secure IT-based business solutions in the most effective way and has many years of global experience, having worked with trans-global clients in North America, Asia Pac and Europe.  He has significant experience working with strategic partners.  Whilst at HP, Mike successfully managed the creation and delivery of HP’s largest joint go-to-market (JGTM) initiative worldwide. This involved the establishment of the strategic business case and board-level support in both organisations for a strategic outsourcing offering.  It involved the creation of all joint business, management and governance processes and the day-to-day management of global sales and JGTM activities.  Mike’s current role at IntelligentComms allows him to leverage his IT and sales background, providing best of breed Telecoms Expense Management (TEM) managed services to his clients.  Mike has a BSc Honours in Technology and Business Studies and is married with two children.

Head of Development

Grant Marshall

Grant joined IntelligentComms as Head of Development in July 2009. His team provides reporting and software development expertise, frequently introducing new releases on the Veropath platform. He has over 15 years experience in management of software testing, product development and manufacturing in high technology telecommunications environments. Until 2009 Grant served as a project manager with responsibility for the development of a business intelligence suite of products at Agilent Technologies. Prior to that, he worked for Hewlett-Packard as a software development manager within their global manufacturing function. He holds an MBA from Edinburgh Business School at Heriot-Watt University, as well as an MSc in Software Engineering from Napier University.

Non-executive Directors

Nigel Moore

Chairman of AIM listed TEG Environmental Plc and Chairman of the audit committee of listed company The Vitec Group Plc. Nigel was a London-based partner at Ernst & Young from 1973 to June 2003, where he held various roles including Managing Partner of the London office and Head of Marketing, as well as having responsibility for client service.

Nigel also established and ran Ernst & Young firms in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union for seven years, which gave him valuable experience of working in these various countries. with rapidly-growing companies.

Jean-Marc Fraysse

CEO and CIO of London-based, pan-European equity long/short fund manager, Park Place Capital. Jean-Marc has held this role since January 2003, prior to which he was a partner at Cazenove from June 1988 until the company incorporated. He then became the Managing Director of Cazenove Fund Management. Before this, Jean-Marc was a Portfolio Manager for Brown Brothers Harriman in New York - and also worked for Kidder Peabody in New York, and also in London where he helped set up their international fund management arm.

David Cheyne

David is a Chartered Accountant with over 15 years of finance, commercial, general management and turnaround operating experience, underpinned by 10 years accounting auditing and corporate finance experience with Ernst & Young. David spent five years as Group Finance Director of the supermarket and convenience store group Somerfield, originally when it was a plc and then under Private equity ownership prior to its sale to the Co-op in February 2009. He played a key role in the initial Public to Private transaction and thereafter as part of the new executive team which rationalised and transformed the business, delivering significant value growth for the private equity shareholders on exit.  In addition to his role as a non-executive Director of IntelligentComms, David is Chairman of Criticaleye (The Network of Leaders), and holds a number of other non-executive Directorships including Discovery Investment Fund Ltd which specialises in supporting young, ambitious, high growth enterprises in Scotland.