The members of ThinkAnalytics Management Team and Board of Directors are:
Eddie Young, Chairman
Eddie has over 25 years sales and management experience, largely in IT within major multinationals including
IBM with whom he achieved considerable business and IT success. He left in 1990 to establish ACS(UK) Ltd as an
IT Consultancy within the Enterprise business space and in over 16 years grew the company steadily and profitably
to become one of the largest independent Microsoft Consultancy Partners in the UK and Europe with offices in Scotland,
London and Paris. In 2006 DELL acquired ACS to form a significant part of their European Consultancy and Services
Practice. As part of this transformation Eddie worked closely with DELL Senior Management for 18 months to
successfully integrate the businesses and take the solution offerings to a much larger geography.
In 2001 Eddie, along with the management team of ThinkAnalytics, acquired the company away from its then Nasdaq-listed
parent, Gentia. Since this time ThinkAnalytics has been run as a profitable private company, exploiting its undoubted
leading technology (see Gartner) in the real-time predictive analytics, content recommendations and targeted advertising markets.
Eddie has an Honours degree in Economics from Aberdeen University and achieved a Masters at the University of Natal (SA).
Peter Docherty, Founder
and Chief Technology Officer
Peter has over 20 years experience in software development,
specializing in telecommunications and real-time systems. He has
led the development team at ThinkAnalytics since 1996 in the development
and delivery of the knowledge discovery and data mining platform
that is at the core of ThinkAnalytics' products. Prior to that,
Peter was a technical manager for Hewlett-Packard, responsible
for the development of high performance telecommunications signaling
monitoring software and he has held various lead engineering positions
at British Telecommunications including System Designer for all
projects within the award-winning BT Airline Interactive Services
programme.
Peter graduated in Computer Science and Microprocessor
Systems from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland, has an MBA
with Distinction from the University of Strathclyde Graduate Business
School and is a Chartered Engineer.
Alasdair Finlayson, Senior
Vice President, Finance and Administration
After 25 successful years in IBM Mr Finlayson joined his ex-colleague
Mr. Young to run the finance and back office operations of ACS
in 1992, providing sound management experience to this business.
Mr. Finlayson is an advisor to ThinkAnalytics and is responsible
for finance and administration.
Chris Tooke, SVP, Sales
As head of worldwide sales, Chris is responsible for driving customer sales and pre-sales support, especially in the UK
and Europe, expanding ThinkAnalytics presence in the key markets of telecommunications, media, banking/finance and
government. Chris has over 20 years of corporate sales experience with major software vendors such as Computer
Associates, Sterling Commerce (Xcellenet) and ACS, where he gained considerable recognition in sales performance and
consistently winning large accounts from the competition.