Meet our Leadership Team

Simon Walsh, CEO

An experienced technology leader, Simon joined Advanced in April 2023. With a successful track record in scaling technology businesses and driving technological transformation, he is leading Advanced towards further growth through innovation, as it expands its solution offerings and market traction.

Prior to joining Advanced, Simon was CEO of NTT Americas, a global technology and business solutions provider, and before that held CEO and COO positions for leading technology brands such as Atos, Virtustream and Dell Technologies Global Cloud Business. 

Simon is passionate about Advanced’s mission and its people, with a keen understanding of how technology can transform people’s working lives for the better using innovative Cloud-based solutions. He is driving the business with a clear vision, which is to be the positive difference for its customers, by providing quality products and services with outstanding customer service.

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.

Stephen Dews, CFO

Stephen Dew, our Chief Financial Officer, is responsible for leading the groups strategic and operational finance initiatives.

Stephen Dews, our Chief Financial Officer, is responsible for leading the groups strategic and operational finance initiatives. Stephen has many years’ experience leading Finance teams in both publicly listed and Private Equity backed businesses in the IT and technical services sectors. In the software space Stephen has previously held the positions of EMEA Finance Director for Oracle, Group Financial Controller for UNIT4 and more recently Chief Financial Officer for Keylane, provider of a market leading SaaS platform for the Insurance and Pension industry in the Benelux, Dach and Nordics.

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.