Our Management Team

Paul Black – CEO and Co Founder

Since co-founding sales-i Paul has worked to develop a pioneering SaaS business proposition focusing on service architecture and delivery, setting the company's technical direction and spearheading business and sales partnerships. Paul is responsible for the marketing proposition and technical delivery of the sales-i service.

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Kevin McGirl – Co Founder

Kevin McGirl – Co FounderKevin has been at the forefront of major trends in the software industry for more than 20 years and is an early pioneer of the Software as a Service (SaaS) business model. A business strategist and market development specialist, Kevin is the driving force behind sales-i's go-to-market and business development strategy.

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Rodney Hornstein – Chairman

Rodney Hornstein – ChairmanRodney Hornstein is a business angel investor and non-executive chairman focusing on companies in the information technology sector.  Active in the IT industry for over 40 years, Rodney has held senior sales and management roles with ICL and GEC and was chairman and managing director of Gestetner International and Alphameric Plc.

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Martin Blackburn – Non Executive Director

Martin Blackburn – Non Executive DirectorMartin Blackburn is Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Europe Middle East and Africa for EDS, the leading global technology services company. Martin sits on EDS’s EMEA board. Prior to EDS Martin spent 10 years at Logica where he held a number of roles, joining the operational board as CEO of the Global Outsourcing Business.

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Jon Lee – Non Executive Director

Jon Lee – Non Executive DirectorJon joined the sales-i Board in 2009 as a non-executive director and brings extensive software industry and M&A experience to the team. As co-founder and CEO of Horizon Innovation, Jon specializes in investing in innovative technology companies, skills he acquired during his near 20 year tenure in senior management and directorial positions in technology companies.

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Dr Richard Hargreaves – Non Executive Director

Richard Hargreaves was educated as an engineer and conducted research in materials science before entering the world of venture capital with the 3i. After ten years of making investments in unquoted companies, he left to start Baronsmead plc.

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