Board of Directors

Royston has extensive board experience in a variety of quoted and privately owned organisations following a long career in technology and telecommunications, including sales and general management roles with large international corporations. He was appointed a Non-Executive Director of Intercede on 5 August 2002.

Royston is currently Chair of Cirrus Response Limited, Stellar Omada Limited and Cellhire Limited. He is an advisor to the NEC Corporation and NEC Software Services Limited. He is also Chair of the Board overseeing the delivery of the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham.

He has held a range of Executive and Board Director roles with Private Equity backed, bank backed and publicly listed companies including IBM, Logica PLC, Cable & Wireless PLC, BT PLC, Hays PLC, Bluefin Insurance and CSG Systems. He is not considered independent as he has served as a director for over 22 years.

Klaas is an experienced executive with extensive sales, marketing, business development and general management experience in IT and IT services. He has significant international knowledge across EMEA, Asia-Pac and North America.

Klaas has worked for a number of large and small, quoted and privately-owned organisations in market leading and turnaround situations including CA Technologies, Intelecom UK, and Sword Group. He has a master’s degree from the Cranfield School of Management. He is also a Chartered Marketer and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Under his leadership, Intercede has successfully repositioned the business and launched Phase Two of its growth strategy, targeting scalable recurring revenue growth.

Nitil has been a CFO and a plc board member since 2001. He is an experienced finance professional with over 21 years of senior management and capital markets experience. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Recently he was the interim CFO at D4t4 Solutions plc (2021). From 2016 to 2020, he was the CFO at Dods Group plc (now Merit Group plc), a leading technology company specialising in information and media. During his time at Ten Alps, Nitil managed three divisions of the group, driving growth both organically and through strategic acquisitions.

With 40 years’ experience as a senior leader in technology and 11 years as a Non-Executive Director, John brings extensive knowledge of technology businesses and public company governance.

At Microsoft for 11 years, John led a large software and service engineering organisation responsible for developing and running Microsoft’s online MSN platform around the world. As Senior Vice President at Yahoo for 5 years, John led a very large, global software and service engineering organisation. John was CTO at the BBC for 4½ years responsible for all IT, production and broadcast technology. He also has extensive experience in Machine Learning and AI technology as CTO at Wood Mackenzie and EasyJet.

Jacques Tredoux is the Chief Executive of Tredoux Capital Limited, a company authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority, which manages funds investing primarily in listed small-cap technology companies. He is not considered independent as he represents the Company’s major shareholder, The Azalia Trust.

Prior to establishing Tredoux Capital Limited, he was the Chief Executive Officer of the Credo Group (UK) Limited, a group of companies in London providing wealth management services. Jacques qualified as a lawyer in 1988 in South Africa, and practised at Edward Nathan Friedland Inc and Clifford Chance. Members of the Credo Group have provided corporate finance and fundraising assistance to the company since before its admission to AIM in March 2001.

Dan O’Brien has over 30 years’ experience in financial roles across successful listed, PE backed and privately owned companies. At Tarsus Group, Dan was a lead executive overseeing the take-private acquisition by Charterhouse and the subsequent sale of the business to Informa plc for approximately $1bn. He qualified as a chartered accountant at Deloitte in 1991 and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

He has held senior finance roles in multinational companies including COLT Telecoms, Eidos Plc, Huveaux Plc as Group Finance Director and Shine Group as Chief Financial Officer. Dan chairs the Audit Committee and serves on the Nominations Committee.