Meet our Leadership Team

Gordon Wilson, CEO

Since joining Advanced in September 2015, Gordon has led the successful transformation of Advanced driving a people-centric approach to achieving sustainable and responsible business growth.

Having secured the largest software investment deal in the last decade with BC Partners and Vista Equity Partners in 2019, Gordon has led Advanced through an ambitions phase of growth and acquisition. He takes pride in enabling customers to adopt a digital first mindset by empowering people with the technology and tools to do their job with a strong social and environmental conscious.

Gordon sits on the board of techUK and is a member of the Confederation of British Industry South East Council. He is passionate about, and instrumental in driving the diversity and inclusion agenda at Advanced and throughout the wider industry.

Alex Arundale, CPO

Alex Arundale joined the company in February 2016 and is our Chief People Officer. She is responsible for leading the company’s talent management and development initiatives, from recruitment through to retention.

Alex has already made a huge impact, introducing innovative new people-focused approaches, including attraction strategies which actively avoid unconscious bias. She was one of the first to famously ‘throw CVs out of the window’ in the recruitment process. Prior to Advanced, Alex held a number of HR positions, most recently as Director of HR Operations at CDK International and HR Director at APD Dealer Services. She is a regular industry commentator in leading titles such as HR Magazine.

Richard Kerr, CFO

Richard Kerr, our Chief Financial Officer, is responsible for leading the group’s strategic and operational finance initiatives.

Richard was formerly CFO at Dennis Publishing, where he had a key role in the growth of the group. Prior to that he was CFO at Guardian Media Group and was instrumental in its financial turnaround and in building a high-growth recurring revenue business model. Richard has extensive international experience, in particular at UBM (now part of Informa) where he led the group in completing over 70 M&A transactions.

Narinder Sahota, CTO  

Our Chief Technology Officer, Narinder Sahota, has more than 28 years’ technology experience. He is responsible for managing our growing R&D facility and driving its technology strategy forward, bringing innovative products and services to market and creating value for our 25,000 customers.

He joined us from Salesforce where he held various CTO positions and, more recently, was the European lead for its business transformation consulting practice. Prior to that, he spent over 22 years at Capgemini. He was the Account CTO for the one of the company’s biggest digital accounts, Royal Mail Group, as well as Chief Architect at one of the world’s largest outsourcing deals, where he drove technology strategy and governance of a 160-strong architecture unit.

Amanda Grant, CPO 

Amanda came to Advanced in 2018 via an acquisition. She was quickly promoted to Chief Product Officer in 2019, following a successful time as Product Strategy Director, where she was responsible for our product roadmap in all markets and ensuring the correct strategic investment for achieving growth.

With over two decades of IT industry experience, Amanda brings a wealth of knowledge around ERP solutions to the role. She has a strong background in product strategy, pre-sales and training. Amanda works closely with our UK and India Engineering Leadership to drive forward the direction of our technology platform and optimise our innovative R&D facility so we can drive value in every part of our customers’ organisations.

Sally Scott, CMO

Sally Scott was promoted to the role of Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Advanced in December 2015. She had previously been Marketing Director of our Business Solutions division, delivering a breadth of back-office and specialist CRM solutions to the mid and enterprise market. Sally is now responsible for aligning the company’s marketing initiatives and evolving brand awareness to our ambitious growth plans.

Sally is passionate that marketing makes a measurable revenue contribution, and is focused on ensuring that marketing and sales work hand-in-hand. She brings over 15 years of senior marketing experience to Advanced, and is a recognised industry commentator on marketing and boardroom issues.

Roy Wood, CSO  

Responsible for sales execution and strategy, Roy is our Chief Sales Officer (CSO). Roy divides his time integrating new acquisitions and ensuring the Sales team deliver a world-class experience to our customers. Promoted into the role in February 2018, Roy has led the largest transformational change of this function in Advanced’s history. This has resulted in the Sales team being better aligned with product and marketing to deliver on the company's’ ambitious growth plans.

Roy was one of the co-founders of the Managed Service business in 2005 and has been key to our growth, carrying out various senior leadership roles across sales, marketing and product including MD for the IT Services division.

Simon Short, COO  

Simon joined Advanced in February 2021 as Chief Operating Officer, responsible for all operational aspects of the organisation, with a specific focus on nurturing the culture for customer success.

He was previously Global Lead for Customer Success at Salesforce, helping customers to achieve business value from their investment. Simon also worked as Head of Technology Business Management for Vodafone, Global Lead for Capgemini’s Digital Customer Experience and spent 15 years as an Engineering Officer in the Royal Navy. He is Chair of Astriid, a charity connecting people with long-term chronic illness with meaningful opportunities in the workplace.