Leadership Team

David Ventris, Managing Director

David Ventris is the Managing Director and founder of Altio. He is also the Senior Executive focused on long-term strategy, partnership and channel development, key client relationships and strategic product marketing.

David has more than 20 years’ managerial experience within the financial services and technology sectors. He has held senior product management positions at financial services software houses and senior programme positions at financial institutions, and has provided advisory and consultancy services to technology companies and start ups.

David is a Computer Science honours graduate.

Gary Thompson, Vice President Technology

Gary Thompson drives Altio’s Technology vision and strategy through the understanding of the impact of key business drivers and technology innovation and patterns. He has ownership of the product roadmap and its timely delivery.
 
Gary comes from a software engineering background working on major telecoms and financial services initiatives where he has performed leading roles in designing and implementing strategic systems. Gary remains involved in the technical design and implementation of Altio solutions and products with a focus on the use of loosely coupled and reusable software.

Blog: http://blog.thompson-web.co.uk/

Neill Ricketts, Vice President Professional Services

Neill Ricketts heads up Professional Services and is responsible for the implementation of Altio industry enterprise solutions, including responsibility for Altio partner OEM implementations. He is also responsible for Altio customer support.
 
Neill joined Altio from Reuters in 2003 and has been involved in the design and implementation of Altio solutions in the financial sector throughout North America and Europe.

Keith McCrindle, Chief Solutions Engineer

Keith McCrindle has responsibility for Altio enterprise industry solutions. He has been instrumental in engineering mission-critical, secure and scalable Altio solutions for the enterprise.