The Team
Antony D Hawkes
Managing Director
Antony studied engineering and computers, before qualifying as an electronics engineer with a distinction in business studies. He joined IBM and spent eight years in sales and consultancy roles, predominately in financial services. Antony achieved various sales awards and marketing accreditation with Chartered Institute of Marketing, and was one of only a handful of people to be offered an MBA place at the world renowned London Business School.
Before establishing RDC, Antony also spent time at Oracle, followed by various sales and marketing directorships in the IT channel.
Zack Evans
Services Director
Zack joined the industry in 1994, and has developed technical and project experience in a wide range of sectors, verticals, organisations and technologies. This wide-ranging background brings a broad and unique perspective to his approach.
Zack built 6 years experience in various permanent technical and project management roles and joined the finance sector as a consultant in 2000. He has since spent the majority of his time with corporate customers, initially in pre-sales and delivery and latterly in delivery through project and team management.
He is particularly proud of his involvement in a number of flagship analytics and data warehouse projects which were and are key for the vendors and for the customer.
This places him ideally now to advise at a programme level on how to select and deliver value from these platforms.
Simon Hersh
Finance Director
Simon is an experienced financial manager and corporate finance specialist. Over the last 20 years he has been responsible for a number of company restructurings and fundraisings with an outage value of well over £100m. He currently acts as financial director for two other companies both with turnovers into the millions.
Helen R Hawkes
Operations Director
Helen has spent many years in various organisational roles prior to taking a career break to become a full time mother in 1998. She was also involved in the formation of RDC in 2003.
Laurence Menear
Marketing Manager
Laurence has over 25 years’ international business experience gained with firms such as Morse, Racal Electronics, AEG and the British Computer Society. During a ten-year period he held a succession of senior marketing positions at Morse, where his initiatives to attract high-quality consulting staff and to deliver tailored online information for customers helped manage a period of very rapid business change. His responsibilities included corporate brand development, partner marketing, integration of acquired businesses at home and overseas, and investor reporting.
Laurence is a Member of the Institute of Public Relations and of the Marketing Society, and an Affiliate Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
Clare Findlay
Non-executive Director
Clare is an experienced business leader with a strong track record in the IT industry. She has held senior roles in the channel and has run a number of large services sales businesses. Currently managing director of Aspire Technology, Clare spent four years at Morse plc, where she grew the services business to £100 million.