Management Team

Steve Rickless, Chief Executive Officer

Steve is one of the original founders of the company. He has over 12 years experience within the information and communications industry and has been a consultant primarily involved in leading edge video technical projects. He has held a range of positions and roles during this time which has helped him to gain an end-to-end understanding of what it takes to deliver to develop, sell and deliver broadband IT projects.

Steve has worked on some of the industry's leading broadband projects including digital TV deployment work for NTL, Telewest, Charter Communications, TV Cabo, voice-over-IP projects for Cablecom and UPC and video-on-demand for BT, YesTV and the On Demand Group. He has worked with an extensive client list including Pakistan Telecommunications Communications Limited, Sunrise (Teledenmark Switzerland) and Patientline.

He has held a number of senior positions at Oracle, Accenture and KPMG Consulting where he was responsible for the European Cable Business unit.

Oliver Rothschild, Non-Executive Director

Oliver Rothschild's successful career in business development has gained him a valuable and extensive network of City, West End, European and International connections. His track record of thriving business development includes Property Investment, ICT and Entertainment, Public Relations, Fine Arts & Antiques. He has also acted as a consultant for the hotel, restaurant and leisure industries.

One of the founding members of Buchler Rothschild investments, currently Oliver is serving as Chairman on AB Entertainments Ltd. His other boardroom experience has extended to serving as Chairman for a travel plc, senior vice president of American General Investments and director of Auction House. He is also active for numerous charities and has held several key positions including Chairman of UNICEF (appeals committee).

Chris Wallis, Non-Executive Director

Chris Wallis is a highly experienced business executive having held directorships in a number of public and private companies.

From 2003 to 2007, he was a partner in DB Consultants, the corporate turnaround specialists, where his assignments included periods as Finance Director of Baltimore plc and Finance Director of Langbar International Limited, investigating the fraud in the AIM listed company. In 2005 he completed the successful turnaround and subsequent sale of Media Tools plc.

Prior to DB Consultants, Chris held a broad range of senior positions in a variety of business sectors. He was European Finance Director of Kroll, the US Risk Management Specialist, and Chief Operating Officer of Kroll's Corporate Advisory & Restructuring Group. He was instrumental in establishing the European support services structure of Kroll during a period of rapid growth. Chris has also held internal management roles at Ernst & Young and KPMG and was Finance Director of Westerly plc. Chris is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and a graduate of Bristol University.

Dr. Peter Martin, Chief Technical Officer

Peter has over 20 years of experience in designing, developing, and deploying software solutions, primarily in the telecommunications sector. Peter began his IT career with Plessey Systems Limited in Poole, Dorset working on operating system software for telex systems, development of an Intelligent Network platform, and in-house consultancy on new technologies. Peter was appointed to several strategic review teams with GPT prior to the creation of Marconi. In 1999, Peter was a founding member of a small engineering team within Marconi which was tasked with developing a successful Voice-over-IP gateway product.

Peter is responsible for all aspects of Tripleplay's product development and works closely with the management team in defining and delivering the product roadmap for the company.

Peter has had 13 papers published in industrial and academic publications covering Intelligent Network products and his research interest of Evolutionary Computation. He also has 5 patents to his name. He has in depth knowledge and practical experience of a wide range of computing platforms, operating systems and computer languages. Peter has an MSc in software engineering from Bournemouth University and a PhD in computer science from Essex University. He is a chartered engineer and a member of the BCS and IEEE.

Graeme Ogilvie, Chief Operations Officer

Graeme has over 10 years engineering experience and during the last five years has taken a number of leading roles within broadband communication projects. He has an MBA allowing him to provide a unique combination of business- related skills along with a strong technical background and therefore provides a extensive input into the product roadmap of Tripleplay.

Graeme has been involved in a number of projects including NTL's video-on-demand service which involved helping to develop the business plan, vendor selection, and high-level end-to-end technical architecture and more recently Orange's video to the home project. He has worked with an extensive client list including supplying a DSL provisioning system for bbNed (Telecom Italia Holland), voice-over-IP projects for Cablecom and UPC and the digital TV deployment for NTL and Patientline.

He has held a number of senior positions at Accenture and KPMG Consulting.

Paul Harris, Business Development Director

Paul joined the company in January 2004 bringing with him a wealth of experience in opening up new routes to market as well as high-level contract negotiation. Formerly from the telecoms industry, Paul has held board positions in seven medium-sized companies covering sales and marketing responsibilities as well as assuming overall control of those firms.

During his time in telecoms, Paul successfully managed the commercial discussions on behalf of IPM Spa which culminated in the company taking control of the street payphone business operated by Mercury Communications. The new company, IPM Communications PLC, was the first non-PTT in the UK to acquire a public operating licence.

During 2002, whilst serving on the board of CreditCall, Paul secured a deal with Travelodge to develop a pay-movie system that would operate over the existing telephone infrastructure. He then negotiated a contract with NEC to install the product in over 14,000 hotel rooms.

During his time at Tripleplay, Paul has been responsible for building the sales channels in many countries and sectors including education, hospitality, retail and residential. He considers the relationship between supplier, reseller and the end customer very important and that supporting the reseller is the most valuable sales tool available. This approach has resulted in Tripleplay becoming a leading provider of IP-based media solutions.