Paul Cash
Managing Director

Paul commenced his career in IT at Protek in 1989, starting in software development, moving through technical sales running the pre-sales team. Following that he ran the software development division, winning the largest software development deal in Protek history and instigated the first large Java development project in the UK.

In 1996 Paul co-founded Partners in IT and worked in HP pre-sales in the start up phase, followed by a year running operations and marketing before becoming MD.

Laura Donnelly
Finance & Operations Director

After completing a Business Studies course at college Laura commenced her career in the Group Remuneration Dep of Ferranti International. Prior to joining Partners in IT Laura worked for a specialist bespoke software company in several roles including Office Management, Quality Control and Project Accounting and Administration. Laura has worked in the IT industry for over 12 years and has considerable knowledge of IT projects and processes.

Laura joined Partners in IT in 1998 and has responsibility for the Operational Management of the company including scheduling the assignments of our consultancy team. In October 2003 Laura was appointed Finance & Operations Director and additionally took on the role of Company Secretary. Laura continues to own responsibility for scheduling of consultant assignments and is also responsible for the financial management of the company and the day to day operations of the business and the running of the office.

Alan Johnson
Director of Technology

Alan holds an Msc in Digital Systems from The University of Central London and has a background in Digital Systems design and Real–Time Software Development.

Before joining Partners in IT, Alan worked as Network and Systems Management Consultant for another large HP OpenView Partner.

Alan joined PiIT in 1998 as a Specialist Consultant and after a number of roles is now the Director of Technology, responsible for technical strategy and innovation

Grant Macdonald
Managed Services Director

Grant was one of the founding Directors of Partners in IT. Grant has worked in the IT industry for 20 years and in this time has provided a full range of IT services covering system configuration, consultancy, training and support of customer's environments with both HP and IBM.

Prior to Partners in IT Grant was the Southern Service Manager of one of HP's largest resellers, managing over 20 consultants, delivering consultancy and support services across both UNIX and Intel management technologies.

Grants responsibility at Partners in IT is to create, drive and manage the delivery of managed and consultancy services to an expanding Service Management marketplace. .

Andrew Richardson
Process Consultancy Manager

Andy leads a team of consultants who provide ITIL Service Management consultancy services, from reviews to full implementations.

Andy has been a service management consultant for 14 years and has worked for Partners in IT for 9 of those years. He has a total of 18 years in the IT industry and started out as a software engineer in the defence and air traffic control industries.