Philip Keown (BA, ACA, CISA)
Chairman of the Board of the Federation

Philip has specialised in Information and Technology assurance, IT governance, control and security for over 20 years, and his main focus is to help organisations to manage and control their use of systems and information technology, and to get the best value from it.
A Chartered Accountant and CISA qualified, Philip is a partner at Grant Thornton, where he heads the firm's Technology Risk Services practice.

Philip is an affiliate member of the Institute of Internal Auditors, and Chairman of the IDEA UK User Group. He has been a member of the FAST board since 1997, and was appointed Chairman of the Federation in 2007.

John Lovelock
Chief Executive

Federation Against Software Theft

John Lovelock joined the Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) in 2002 bringing extensive business management experience gained as General Manager of Ora Electronics UK Ltd, who became the largest mobile phone accessory supplier in the UK within the 4 years he was there, and Managing Director of Allgon (UK) Limited, Sweden's largest mobile phone antenna manufacturer at the time.

Prior to this he spent 19 years in South Africa, after originally training as a mechanical engineer, and grew into business and general management roles within the South African motor manufacturing and electrical industries.

As Chief Executive John's focus is to represent the software industry and advocate effective management of software in both the public and private sectors to ensure end users reap the benefits of efficient software use and vendors the revenue due to them.

Other strategic areas covered by FAST include lobbying Government and the Civil Service for legislative reform, instigating copyright enforcement action and education through the FAST Legal Team and working with industry and Government agencies in the education sectors to ensure that UK citizens grow up to respect Intellectual property in all its forms.

Stuart Anthony (BA, ACA)
Chairman of The Federation's Finance Committee

Stuart is a board director of The Federation (The Federation Against Software Theft) and Director of Finance EMEA for Macrovision Corporation (NASDAQ: MVSN). Macrovision markets copy protection and rights management technologies and products to prevent the illicit duplication, reception and use of video, audio programs and computer software (www.macrovision.com).

He was formerly Chief Finance Officer at Monactive Limited, the leading Software Asset Management decision tool provider (www.monactive.com).

Stuart was Group Finance Director of GX Networks Limited (formerly XO Communications Europe), a Company whose audited turnover was £29 million for the 12 months ending 31 December 2000, and UK Finance Director of Concentric Network Europe. These were B2B and residential dial-up Internet Service Providers providing online services for 100,000's of customers 24/7. Stuart has several years experience in the ISP/Telco arena.

Stuart graduated with 2.1(Hons) degree in Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology from University College London. Stuart is a Chartered Accountant and qualified with PriceWaterhouseCoopers London.

Andy Burton
Chairman of Hosting/Cloud Sub Committee

Andy joined The Federation as a Board Director in 2006 to bring his wealth of commercial experience and knowledge of the Software Industry to the team. As Chief Executive of Fasthosts Internet he today leads the UK’s largest Web Hosting and Dedicated Server operation serving several hundred thousand customers through their Datacenters in the UK and US. In this capacity he Chairs a Sub Committee within FAST focused on the convergence of the Software, Cloud Computing and Hosting Industries. Prior to Fasthosts Andy was CEO of Centennial Software from 2004 to 2008, who are the market leader in provision of IT asset discovery and License Management solutions that many FAST members already rely upon to manage their IT infrastructure from a cost, compliance and risk perspective. During his earlier years on the Board of FAST Andy oversaw the development of the SAM Sub-Committee, launched the SIRB and was instrumental in formalising our partnership with Investors in Software.

In May of 2008 Centennial was acquired by FrontRange Solutions and Andy was subsequently appointed an Executive of the parent company heading up their go-to-market strategy for Infrastructure Management solutions (Centennial and Client Lifecycle Management) until he was recruited by Fasthosts to lead their strategic development. Earlier in his career Andy worked in the IT Security market with four years as Chief Operating Officer of leading content management vendor, Clearswift; Chief Executive of the Content Management division of Baltimore Technologies and Chief Executive of Chubb Information Security and held Managing Director roles for subsidiaries within the publicly traded Chubb Security Group (now UTC) and Securicor Group (now G4S).

With over 20 years in helping businesses protect their commercial assets (from physical to electronic) and improve their performance, Andy is ideally placed to advise the Board on a broad range of commercial matters. Andy holds an MBA and Diploma in Company Direction.

Dr Douglas Eyeions MBE

Douglas Eyeions was Chairman of The Federation from 1996 until he stepped down in 2007. Previously he had held the position of Director General of the Computing Services & Software Association (now Intellect) for over 16 years until the end of 1995.

His university research work for his doctorate on cosmic radiation involved one of the earliest applications of the Mark1* computer in 1953 and he subsequently worked with early computers at Rolls Royce and GEC. In 1965 he set up a new company - Computer Projects Ltd.- and remained its Managing Director for the next twelve years under the changing ownership of Associated Newspapers, Citicorp and BOC

He has served on many national and international bodies concerned with information technology, such as the National Electronics Council, the British Advisory Bureau on Telecommunications and the Confederation of European Computer User Associations. The many voluntary offices he has held in the past include Director General of the European Computing Services Association, Treasurer of the British Computer Society, Vice-Chairman of the Computing Services Industry Training Council, Chairman of the National Economic Development Organization's IT Component Quality Working party, Treasurer of the European Institute of Quantum Computing and Chairman of the IBM Computer Users' Association

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Chartered Engineer and a Chartered Physicist. In 1989 he was awarded an MBE for his services to the UK computing industry.

Richard Hales

Richard’s work with The Federation compliments more than 20 years software industry experience, primarily in sales and marketing roles. Richard is currently Business Development Director, EMEA in EMC’s corporation’s cloud division. EMC is the world’s leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology, see www.emc.com (NYSE:EMC).

Prior to EMC, Richard held roles including Country Manager UK&I for F-Secure, General Manager of the £135m Software division at Computer 2000 Distribution and as business development manager for Autodesk, a manufacturer of the market leading “AutoCAD” and related product range. In this role, exposure to international markets in Europe, Middle East and Africa gave an excellent opportunity to experience the approaches and issues in different cultures over seven years.

Whilst employed by two UK based IT resellers, Richard gained firsthand experience in the sales, development and implementation of “organisation critical” design solutions, in many cases providing customers with applications that delivered significant competitive advantage in their respective markets.
Having graduated with a BSc from the Open University and subsequently completed a MBA also with the Open University, Richard moved from Manchester and now lives with his family in Surrey.

Dawn Osborne
Chair of FLAG

Educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, Dawn Osborne was a partner at Rouse Legal (formerly Willoughby and Partners) for nine years having trained and qualified with the media and intellectual property practice of Denton Hall. She became a partner of Palmer Biggs Legal in June 2009. Altogether Dawn has over fifteen years experience exclusively in intellectual property including trademarks, copyright, database rights confidentiality/privacy and designs.

At Palmer Biggs Dawn handles general intellectual property enforcement work for fashion and entertainment clients and a large number of luxury goods and big brand companies.

Dawn also specialises in Internet law/e-commerce. She regularly advises businesses in relation to the content or hosting of web sites, the use of brands/IPR on the Net and the protection and enforcement of IPR in cyberspace. She is regularly involved in the recovery of domain names for clients and has been involved in a number of successful applications to the Court and many domain name dispute resolution proceedings in this regard. She is an arbitrator for the WIPO and NAF ICANN, and the .eu and the Nominet domain name dispute resolution processes.

Dawn also has a particular interest in ADR, as well as being a panellist for the domain name dispute resolution procedures mentioned above. She is an INTA neutral, an accredited mediator for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators and Dawn routinely represents clients in mediation proceedings.

Sean Robinson

Sean Robinson was appointed to the Board in 2010. After completing more than 600 projects in the last 6 years and being directly involved in the development of the International Standard for Software Asset Management (ISO/IEC 19770-1), Sean is now regarded as one of the leading authorities in Software Asset Management (SAM). Currently as Associate Director for Licence Dashboard Ltd, Sean continues to be responsible for the development of Europe's leading licence management tool, Licence Dashboard.

Shaun Frohlich

UK Partner Sales Director Microsoft Ltd.

Shaun is an entrepreneur and has specialised in the software and services sector since 1982. As founder of Bytes Technology Group in 1982, Shaun led the company from start-up through to trade-sale in 2000.

Bytes was and still is one of Microsoft's largest and most successful UK Large Account Resellers (LARs).

Before leading the management buy-in of Teksys ltd. in 2002 Shaun performed an interim management role at the then start-up WEB management company Attenda. Following the MBI at Teksys, Shaun led the turnaround and transformation of the business by organic growth and acquisition. The business was turned from reseller to Microsoft software and services company, creating and delivering a proposition based on software asset management and Microsoft Infrastructure Optimisation. Teksys was subsequently appointed as a LAR and SAM Review Partner to Microsoft in 2004.

After selling Teksys in 2008, Shaun joined Microsoft, initially as a consultant to provide interim management a help drive through a number of change management projects, including PAM excellence and LAR SI/ISV integration. More recently he was appointed as UK Partner Sales Director, working for Scott Dodds and the UK SMSP leadership team, as a full time Microsoft employee. Shaun's new role is helping to shape partner strategy and drive success across Microsoft's LAR and solutions partner ecosystem.

Aside from a busy commercial career, Shaun has been instrumental in a number of industry initiatives. He was a co-founder and chairman of Investors in Software (IiS) and took a lead role in the creation of ISO 19770-1, the global standard for SAM as well as co-authoring the ITIL SAM guide. Shaun led the merger of FAST and IiS, on behalf of IiS, in November 2008 and now serves on the board of the combined entity.

As a passionate sailor and committed supporter of charity work, Shaun combined the two as co-founder and now chairman of the Silicon Cup, a charitable IT regatta which has been raising money and entertaining 1000's of IT professionals at an annual Cowes based event since 1999. As an experienced yachtsman, Shaun has represented England in the Commodores Cup, won the racing division of the ARC Transatlantic race and won his class in the Fastnet race on 3 occasions. When yachting isn't enough, Shaun pounds the London streets, recently completing his fourth London Marathon (2010) to raise more for the NSPCC.

Zak Virdi

Zak has worked in the Licensing and SAM arena for the past 15 years. Recently Zak has set up the UK, Ireland and Finland operations of SoftwareONE and also assisted in developing its Global SAM initiate. SoftwareONE is recognized as the fastest growing LAR globally and now has operations in 17 countries around the world all adopting SAM services. Previously, Zak was the Sales Director at Bytes where he started the licensing team and helped grow the business from £6M to £180M.

Zak is a co-founder and director of IiS (Investors in Software) and has been instrumental in the development of the ISO 19770-1 , ISO SAE (ISO Self Assessment Engine) and assisting organizations along the path to becoming certified through the iiS Rapid Adopter Programme (RAP).

Previously, Zak worked in the finance industry and originally worked as a Software Developer after graduating from Manchester University with a Bsc(Hons) degree in Computer Science.

Hugh Skingley

Hugh Skingley is co-founder and director of Liken Ltd.

Liken was created in 2005 to provide managed SAM solutions and is now focusing on the broader field of technology auditing and services organizations in a broad range of sectors including financials, engineering, distribution and the NHS.

Hugh has more than 10 years experience of working in the financial sector, including 5 years as IT service delivery manager at UBS and 2 years as IT operations manager at Dye Asset Management, a city hedge fund. This experience has shaped Liken’s focus on helping organizations in the financial sector overcome operational difficulties in achieving best practice, particularly in the field of software asset management.

Hugh is currently completing an MBA in Technology management (September 2008) and holds a variety of industry specific qualifications including ITIL Manager (distinction).

Mark Cresswell

Mark Cresswell is CEO of Asset Lifecycle Management provider Scalable Software. Prior to his position at Scalable, Cresswell served as Chief Executive Officer of NEON Systems, Inc. NEON was a NASDAQ listed company that specialized in middleware to integrate IBM mainframes. Prior to joining NEON, Cresswell was Managing Director of Framesoft, a private Swiss company that developed solutions for the investment banking market. A programmer by training, Cresswell has broad industry experience in development, sales, marketing and product management.

Nick Kounoupias
partner at FLAG member firm DMH Stallard

Nick is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution Group specialising in all forms of Intellectual Property (particularly copyright law), Human Rights and Cultural Property disputes. Nick was previously Head of Litigation at the MCPS-PRS Music Alliance and managed the music industry anti-piracy unit for ten years. During this time Nick pioneered the use of private prosecutions of copyright infringers for the music industry. Nick is a former Director of the Anti-Counterfeiting Group, past Chair of its enforcement sub-committee and a former vice Chairman of the Alliance against IP Theft. He was previously Chair of the Online anti-piracy committee of BIEM, the international umbrella organisation of music industry collecting societies. Nick is also a fully accredited mediator and has conducted several mediations.

Alex Hliton

Alex has spent his 25 year working career in the software industry, with 12 of those years at Microsoft managing the UK anti-piracy, compliance and evolving Software Asset Management business.

In 2006, Alex joined Centennial Software as head of global sales, and in 2008 Centennial was acquired by FrontRange Solutions where Alex is now head of their Infrastructure Management line of business.

Alex is non Exec Board Director of FAST and the current Chair of the Software Industry Research Board (SIRB).

He is married with four children, and keen cyclist and skier.

Robert Bond

Robert Bond has over 30 years' experience in advising national and international clients on all of their commercial IP, technology and data protection requirements.

Robert specialises in data, technology and information law and has market-leading expertise in a number of specialist sectors including computer games and digital media where he is an acknowledged industry expert.

Robert's clients cover a wide spectrum from small businesses to major US-based multi-nationals.

Much of Robert's work involves advising clients on the development, identification, protection and commercialisation of their IP assets; ranging from advising on IT contracts, outsourcing and franchising to ensuring adherence to requisite global information security compliance and data protection requirements.