Our Team

Steve co-founded Freeman Clarke in 2012 having held senior leadership positions at UK and international companies in the telecommunications, consultancy, internet and not-for-profit sectors. Steve leads the operational and people side of the business which includes recruitment and selection ensuring we only get the best of the best. In addition, Steve leads the continuous professional development programme for all our Principals so our clients get IT Leaders at the top of their game. To find out more about joining Freeman Clarke, go to our Join Us page.

Graeme co-founded Freeman Clarke in 2012 having run IT services businesses, built commercial software products, and been a corporate IT director and non-executive director. Graeme is responsible for our marketing and sales strategies, oversees our marketing team, and coaches and leads our Regional Directors. His aim is to ensure we build our community of clients and partners, engage with opportunities, and maximise the growth of the business.

Simon has been advising the founders and senior management team at Freeman Clarke since 2018 and was made Chairman in 2020.

Having founded a leading independent management consultancy and also a Professional Services Automation SaaS business he brings over 20 years experience of growing advisory companies. Simon leads on strategy formation and monitoring our progress towards the ambitious development goals we set ourselves as a business and across the senior team at Freeman Clarke.

Gemma joined the Freeman Clarke team in 2015. As Director of Marketing, she is responsible for the development and delivery of our multi-channel marketing strategy to drive awareness and business growth. Most of her marketing career has been based in Sydney, Australia and she has over 14 years of experience from both agency and client side roles and within B2B and B2C environments. She has operated across a variety sectors including Retail, Charity, IT, Banking and Health and Beauty.

James brings extensive experience to Freeman Clarke, having spent a considerable portion of his professional career designing and implementing technology solutions designed to make small, mid and large size business employees more productive and their businesses much more competitive.
He has strong working knowledge across a large variety of vertical markets and horizontal applications focused on business process optimization, document workflow and Cloud and SaaS based solutions. As Executive Vice President of The Software Professional Services Business Unit of Canon Solutions America Inc.
James was a driving force around customer technology solution development, deployment, training and support for customers large and small. He is a passionate technology solutions consultant who believes every business can benefit from a fresh approach to business /productivity software with a clear focus on process management and automation. In addition James has experience in “back office “shared services, call center technologies, customer service operations and manufacturing and logistics optimization.

Kingsley brings 30 years of experience to Freeman Clarke in technical and general management in firms both large and public and small and entrepreneurial.  Kingsley is the Regional Director responsible for Northern New Jersey in our recently expanded US initiative.  Kingsley has served as CTO, CIO, COO, and CEO of a number of firms around the world.  He takes on every new role as if he is an owner, doing what is best for his employer/client.  Further he sees the personnel development of his team as a prime directive; “one person can do a lot, but a well led team can do a lot more.

Prior to joining Freeman Clarke in late 2020, Al held various senior IT leadership positions over the past 30+ years at J.P. Morgan Chase, Chubb Insurance, and AXIS Capital in addition to providing management consulting expertise to a broad range of privately held and publicly traded companies.  He has led and delivered significant transformations of enterprise-wide Technology organizations while continually optimizing the delivery of IT services to provide superior customer service in a cost-effective and well-managed risk-optimized environment.   Al has led globally dispersed technology teams from the U.S. and has international experience leading critical IT functions while based out of the UK as part of an international assignment as the CAO for European Technology.  He was also a key player in the one of the earliest large-scale Managed Services Agreements under-taken by a major Financial Services firm and has successfully leveraged Outsourcing to complement the capabilities and value delivered across the companies he has been employed by.

Ben Cabrera is a performance driven executive with a proven record of transforming organizations, IT systems and operations in challenging environments. He joins Freeman Clarke after his most recent role was as CIO of Covanta Corp. a $1.87B global leader of Energy from Waste solutions.
Ben has held senior business and technology leadership roles in the aerospace, pharmaceuticals, energy and waste industries. His multi-industry experience has consistently delivered innovative, scalable and cost-effective solutions. Ben is a tri-lingual ex-Pat with extensive experience in Europe. Latin America and Southeast Asia. A former U.S. Marine, Ben holds an Executive MBA from NYU’s Stern School of Business Management and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from NJ Institute of Technology.

Bruce Pomerantz joined Freeman Clarke after a 38-year career as a global leader of technology. He has worked in senior IT management positions for the past 25 Bruce is a strong IT infrastructure professional skilled in Enterprise Technology, Global management, IT strategy and Architecture. Proven experience in building, motivating and driving high performance teams to deliver against business and company objectives. He can help businesses regardless of size transform their internal IT infrastructures, streamline and modernize internal processes, help lead the automation of manual tasks. Bruce can also help businesses modernize their governance structures and aid in the creation of new Target Operating Models.

Extensive experience working with vendors to help businesses drive value from the supply chain by renegotiating pricing and partnering to deliver fairer outcomes. Bruce can also aid business with product selection working with IT teams and legal in creating RFI’s and RFP’s.

Bryan is an accomplished executive leader combining enterprise mindset and transformative vision. He creates strategic roadmaps for leadership while encouraging organizational change through alignment of business objectives and leading technology. Bryan brings experience in streamlining operations and introducing a digital mindset to grow operations to scale.

With a proven record of leading Fortune 500, SMBs, and entrepreneurial ventures, he cultivates high-performance teams that leverage emerging technologies and agile methodologies to deliver IT solutions for increased efficiency and bottom-line growth. He has previously held positions as CIO, Senior Director and Vice President across multiple industries.

Bryan has directed several advisory panels for small women owned. He is co-author on five patents registered with the U.S. Patent Office.

Joe joined Freeman Clarke in 2015 with a wide experience of managing technology for the UK and international companies. He is currently working with clients in a range of industry sectors including biotechnology, sports services, intellectual property and wealth management. Prior to joining Freeman Clarke, he held positions such as IT Director at Davies Group and Chief Knowledge Officer at Evotec. Joe has a particular interest in knowledge management and developing high-performance teams. Read the Oxitec client story.

Julian joined Freeman Clarke at the beginning of 2017 and is part of our central team. He is responsible for all recruitment, CPD and HR activities both here in the UK and with our newly expanded team in Singapore. Julian has over 20 years’ experience with recruitment and HR and was most recently with a global charity looking after the recruitment of their international teams. Prior to that he has extensive experience working across a number of sectors including retail, warehousing and consultancy.

Katy joined Freeman Clarke in 2015 and is the Finance Manager in our central team. She is responsible for all financial transactions and reporting both in the UK and overseas. Before joining Freeman Clarke, Katy worked with several blue-chip companies as a management accountant and finance systems analyst. She has wide experience across a number of industries including travel, retail, charities and consumer goods.

Mark joined Freeman Clarke after more than 25 years supporting Global and UK companies to maximize their investment in IT. Prior to joining Freeman Clarke, Mark successfully held senior IT leadership roles in several companies, working in Europe, the US and the UK, including Bombardier Transportation, Siemens, TNT Express, Boots, Eversheds Sutherland and Thames Water, supporting sectors in Manufacturing, Engineering, Utilities, Retail and Legal; playing a significant role in acquisitions to deliver organizational and technological change. This is backed up with the commercial acumen to manage tier one suppliers like Accenture, IBM and CSC. With a background in Strategic Planning, ERP, Asset Management and Digital Transformation with a strong capability in program and project management. Mark has proven that he has a track record of transformation change experience. With a focus on delivering business value, his core strengths are focused on IT strategy development and delivery, program leadership, application delivery, change management, service excellence, team mentoring and leadership

Martin works with a number of clients across the East Midlands. These include Nottingham Trams who operate and maintain the tram network for Greater Nottingham, Pedigree Wholesale, a leading supplier of pet foods and products and Sleaford Quality Foods who supply high-quality ingredients to the food industry. Martin has been helping to develop their IT strategies and associated implementation plans to achieve challenging corporate goals including the direct project management of two ERP system implementations. Martin’s experience also spans across a range of other sectors including IT Services, Brewery and Pharmaceuticals. Prior to joining Freeman Clarke, Martin held senior leadership roles and directorships at Financial Services and Telecommunications companies including Capital One, TDX Group and Esendex. In addition, he has worked in the Engineering sector for Rolls-Royce, Thomson CSF (now Thales) and Marconi. Holding an MBA from Warwick Business School, Martin has extensive program and software development leadership experience and a passion for delivery. Read Sleaford Quality Foods client story

Mike joined Freeman Clarke having held a number of permanent and interim CIO/CTO leadership positions within businesses ranging from small start-ups to complex multi-site international organizations. He has significant experience of business strategy and digital transformation across several industries including professional services, real estate, IT managed services and higher education.

Prior to joining Freeman Clarke, Mike was a Partner and Board member at Malcolm Hollis LLP. He has experience in process redesign, enterprise architecture and program delivery gained from successfully delivery of a range of programs including Dynamics 365 CRM and ERP, Business Intelligence, GDPR and BIM.

As IT Director at De Montfort University, he integrated and modernized several disparate IT teams, established a ground-breaking educational partnership with HP and led several sector-wide initiatives. He also has also worked for Eversheds, KPMG and ComputerLand.

Omar is a business and technology executive with 25+ years international experience and a top-tier global MBA. He has diverse skills in product management, systems development, operations, strategy, and technology consulting, stemming from a background in Applied Sciences in Electrical Engineering and several years living and working in Europe. A critical thinker, competent in identifying opportunity and risk, with proven ability to successfully adapt and excel in multi-cultural business environments.

Omar has demonstrated experience spanning: product design, development, test and release lifecycle of technology applications in areas of smart city infrastructure, smart homes and buildings, electric vehicles, EV infrastructure, autonomous vehicles and self-driving cars, renewable energy, clean technology, and home energy networks.

Patrick joins Freeman Clarke in the US region having successfully held CTO and executive level technology leadership roles in several business sectors including Retail, Quick Service Restaurants, B2B, B2C, SAAS, and Ecommerce. He has help lead technical operations and strategy for large multi-national companies as well as start-up ventures. He is an inspirational leader who is passionate about creating innovative strategy and industry-changing solutions that improve company performance and productivity.
Previously, as CTO, Pat spent several years with Subway Restaurants transforming all aspects of technology including POS and digital consumer commerce platforms.
His earlier career includes senior roles at Kodak, SmartEquip and CTO at TheMarkets.com

Paul has been an advisory Partner at both PwC and Deloitte for almost 30 years with a primary focus around technology, the CIO agenda service offering and systems integration/implementation services. Paul has also been the CEO of a FinTech blockchain-based startup as well as a trusted business advisor to a number of private equity firms.

Paul, in his role as PwC’s Technology Leader, crafted the firm’s “CIO Agenda” service offering for clients and took the firm from a very small data management/data security practice of about 150 people to a CIO agenda-based business that now includes thousands of technology professionals. At Deloitte, Paul served as the firm’s CEO and Global technology leader of a 3500 person Enterprise Applications practice (SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft). Paul has also been a lead client service delivery partner for most of his career.