Paul Malton, Chief Executive Officer
Paul has been building profitable private and publicly owned businesses at CEO level for over 40 years in a range of industries including chemical engineering, international photo processing and IT software. Paul has extensive experience of start up, development and sale of businesses including IPO. His involvement with Metron started as an entrepreneur raising funds to back the Founders and original team in 1986.
Paul is our Chief Executive Officer and has been in post for the past 10 years.

Des Atkinson, Chief Technical Officer
Des has worked in the IT Industry for over 30 years and for the last 22 years has specialised in Capacity Management. He joined Metron in 1991 having previously worked for organisations including BT, British Gas and the Home Office.
His main areas of interest include distributed and virtualized systems.
Des’s responsibilities cover Support, Development, Testing and Consultancy.
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Paul Shimell, Chief Contracts Officer
Paul is one of the founder members of Metron and has been involved in the IT industry for over 40 years. He began his career at ICL in 1969 and set up MicroScope, an IT software and services business. Paul managed Microscope though an IPO on the London Stock Exchange in 1987 and the subsequent sale of the business.
He has had involvement over the years, at a senior level, in a number of Trade Associations and organizations, such as CMG.
Paul is our Chief Contracts Officer with responsibility for commercial and contract dealings.
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Andrew Smith, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer
Andrew has been working in IT for 23 years, 20 of them in Capacity Management with Metron. After learning the business with a hardware manufacturer, Andrew performed a variety of sales and sales management roles in Metron.
Andrew is now CSMO and holds direct responsibility for Metron-Athene, Inc in the USA, corporate marketing and overseeing all direct and partner sales activity worldwide.
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David Kitley FCCA, Chief Financial Officer
David started his career with McGraw-Hill and then set up the finance and administration departments for Supasnaps, which achieved a $100 million turnover within 6 years.
He has held financial controller positions within 3M and Calor Gas before establishing his own company of Chartered Certified Accountants 15 years ago.

Alastair Aitken SVP, Software Quality
Alastair previously worked for ICL, in the area of mid range systems performance benchmarking and then at Rational Software as a testing tools consultant, specialising in performance and automated functional testing in an iterative, incremental development practice. Subsequently he was Test Manager for the Telewest/Blueyonder multi-player gaming service.
Alastair joined Metron in 2003 and is our SVP, Software Quality with responsibility for the software testing team.
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David Watson SVP, Development
David qualified with an MSc in Software Engineering from Sheffield University in 1993 and has worked within a Software Development environment ever since. Initially a developer, David went on to Team lead and then on to Project Management and Development Management, joining Metron in 2006.
David is now Metron’s SVP for Development and finds the challenge of keeping abreast of technological advances continually motivating. He is currently embracing the world of Agile Development and continues to deliver higher value to Metron’s customers.
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Ian Upton SVP, UK Sales and Business Development
Ian has over 25 years sales and operational experience within a range of technology start-up companies and managed his career through a variety of sales roles within performance, capacity and database management Companies.
Ian joined Metron in 2002 and is now our SVP, UK Sales and Business Development with direct responsibility for the management of Metron’s UK sales team and worldwide partner sales network.
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