John Wakeman

John has significant experience of developing and growing Global Enterprise software companies. He was instrumental in the success of Norwegian Software Company Confirmit. Joining Confirmit when revenues were less than $2m John was responsible for growing these to more than $40m over the next seven years. More than half of these revenues came from the US market.

He is largely credited with providing the platform upon which Confirmit continues to grow and for establishing their market leading position within Enterprise Feedback Management (EFM) and Market Research (MR). Confirmit are recognised as one of the early pioneers of the Software as a Service (SaaS) business model.

Prior to Confirmit John was a Senior Executive at Symantec Corporation. During the nineties he was responsible for many of the Sales and Marketing functions in Europe. He participated in the Corporate Transformation programme of the mid nineties which laid the groundwork for much of the company's success in the first part of the following decade.

John joined OmPrompt in 2008.

Simon Granger

Simon is a seasoned finance professional with considerable experience of managing the finances of high-growth technology businesses and of corporate finance transactions from raising venture capital finance through to business sales and stock exchange flotations.

He holds an MA in Modern Languages from Oxford University, is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and is a member of the Faculties of Corporate Finance and Taxation.

Simon qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young in their London office, where he spent ten years including stints in Audit, Corporate Advisory Services, Litigation Support and Entrepreneurial Services, and on secondment to NatWest.

He left Ernst & Young to be Group Finance Director and run the acquisition program of a public company before joining an entrepreneurial private group as CFO and Company Secretary. Simon subsequently joined Henley based Chartered Accountants and corporate finance boutique Hurst Morrison Thomson where he was a Corporate Finance Partner before setting up his own practice in 2002.

Simon joined OmPrompt in 2007.

Brian Bolam

Since joining TNT in the early 80's, Brian has been a supply chain visionary. He sponsored the development of the first Global Supply Chain Event Management system, led the creation of and built Europe's first freight management centre whilst employed by GE Capital and is a founder member of ELUPEG, Europe's foremost collaborative logistics organisation.

This endless striving for operational scale, end-to-end visibility, proactive supply chain management and the use of technology to drive efficiency was at the root of his vision when founding OmPrompt.

OmPrompt is the result of Brian's desire to solve the supply chain's most ubiquitous problem; the lack of systems interoperability and the preponderance of inefficient systems and processes that fill the void left by the lack of systems interoperability.

Brian founded OmPrompt in 2004.

Penny Wilson

Penny is a software professional with over 25 years of experience in the Transportation and Supply Chain industries. Her career has covered all aspects of the software development lifecycle from development to systems analysis and design, through implementation and support, to project, change and release management.

Initially involved in the development of Shipping and Air Freight software packages for a UK software house, she then worked in the USA, Australia and Europe implementing systems for customers.

At the Hapag-Lloyd group, as a consultant specializing in shipping systems, Penny was instrumental in delivering a major project to implement a networked system throughout Asia on time and to the satisfaction of the German head office, and also gaining the approval of the local agencies who had not all been willing participants in the project.

More recently, as UK Production Manager for i2 Technologies Inc, Penny was responsible for the development, release and support of a pro-active message-based inventory tracking system, part of the global Supply Chain Management solutions provided by this American company.

Penny joined OmPrompt at the start in 2004.

Terry Byrne

Terry was the Managing Director of Attain Marketing Systems Ltd, a small but successful multi-function IT consultancy. He worked for a number of years as a senior communications consultant with L.M. Ericsson based in Stockholm, Sweden and was responsible for the introduction of ICL communications protocols on the Ericsson communications equipment used by banks and building societies throughout the UK. The company also specialised in complex integration projects which included other EDI standards such as HIPPA, Rossetanet, HL7, EDIFACT, ANSI.X12 and bespoke solutions.

Terry also worked within the banking sector on a variety of integration projects which generated EDIFACT messages such as PAYMUL, CREMUL, DEBMUL, DIRDEB, FINSTA, BANSTA, FINCAN and CONTRL.

Terry worked for ICL and IBM and was a founder member of an IBM agency, Acclaim Computing, which specialised in Stock Control, Estimating, Warehousing and Financial systems. Terry designed, developed and implemented all of the original systems.

In partnership with his brother, Terry established S.M Byrne and Company who developed software for the construction industry for many years and went on to build solutions for the logistics industry. One of the applications developed was a system called 'SHIPS' which was deployed worldwide.

Terry is a co-founder of OmPrompt and has been part of the Company since the beginning in 2004.