Paul Heywood

COO

2022 - Current

Board Member

2021

Chairman

2022

Timely is the time tracking app to end time tracking. Timely is a venture backed SaaS company from Norway leveraging the power of AI and automation to fully automate time tracking within teams and organisations.

Chairman

2023

Investment Partner

2019

Board Member

2021 - 2024

Chief Revenue Officer

2020 - 2022

- Acquired by Francisco Partners & Clearlake Capital Group - At Puppet, our purpose is to empower people through automation - because we believe that automation accelerates accomplishment. Our portfolio of continuous automation solutions accelerate the building and deployment of applications, as well as the discovery, provisioning, and management of the infrastructure they run on - across your entire estate - from mainframes to containers running in the cloud. We remove all of the manual, error-prone, and soul-crushing parts of your teams' jobs, and replace them with automated ones. We do this so your teams can deliver better software, faster.

Senior Vice President and GM International

2019 - 2020

Chairman

2013 - 2021

- Acquired by Amdocs (NASDAQ:DOX) in 2021 - DevOpsGroup are experts in delivering Certified DevOps training, DevOps Transformation services and Cloud Operations solutions to accelerate the way that organisations deliver software. As an AWS Premier Partner and Microsoft Gold partner, DevOpsGroup are well placed to support organisations in both migration to the cloud as well as operating at scale. As Chairman & founding board member my role was to provide support and guidance to the co-founders, executives and investors as the business continues to execute against its considerable market opportunity. DevOpsGroup is a venture backed business with a major investment made by BGF. Notable Clients: BAE Systems, SkyScanner, Fitness First, ASOS, Admiral, Vodafone and public sector organisations in the UK and overseas.

Vice President of Worldwide Sales - Oracle Cloud

2016 - 2019

Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) offers a comprehensive and fully integrated stack of cloud applications, platform services, and engineered systems. With more than 420,000 customers in more than 145 countries, Oracle provides a complete technology stack both in the cloud and in the data center. Oracle's industry-leading cloud-based and on-premises solutions give customers complete deployment flexibility and unmatched benefits including application integration, advanced security, high availability, scalability, energy efficiency, powerful performance, and low total cost of ownership.

Vice President and General Manager EMEA & APAC

2014 - 2016

- Acquired by Oracle 2016 - Connecting over 3 billion people through the Internet. Dyn is the worlds leading Managed DNS and internet data company lifting the lid on the black box of the internet. A network like any other, the Internet is completely discoverable and controllable. Notable clients - Almost everyone on the planet! Dyn's customers range from historic organisations such as British Home Office, Houses of Parliament, BT, Pfizer and The Financial Times. As well as, Internet titans Twitter, eBay, Etsy, Netflix and of course Angry Birds!

Vice President Sales - EMEA

2013 - 2014

Head Of New Business

2012 - 2013

Recognised as a leader by Gartner for 7 consecutive year. Founded in 1996, Claranet is today one of the largest privately owned MSPs globally; with in excess of 10,000 customers and over 2,500 employees, based in 24 offices across Europe, the United States and Brazil. I was tasked with building a scalable new business function capable of supporting a heavily invested organic and acquisition based growth strategy. Notable Clients: Warner Bros; Chanel; Rentokil Initial; NHS; Radley London, Big Brother; Channel 5; BT; Laing O'Rourke; Amnesty International; Human Rights Watch; YMCA; Crabtree & Evelyn

Account Director - Media and Entertainment

2010 - 2012