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 Freeman Clarke in 2015 after spending 11 years in Sydney where her marketing career first began. As Director of Marketing, she is responsible for the creation, development, and delivery of our multi-channel marketing strategy. This drives brand awareness and business growth for both the UK and US operations.

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.

Bob has many years of experience in creating and managing complex technology platforms, with particular expertise in cloud architecture, financial systems, high-volume transactional web services, information security, and forward looking technologies such as AI and IoT.

He formerly served as VP of Software Development at JPMorgan Global Asset Management and has held senior technology roles such as CIO of DebtResolve, Inc., CTO of Authentidate, Inc. and CTO of HealthScout, Inc. As principal of Timegen Consulting LLC, Bob has been consulting CIO / CTO for enterprises and startups alike, including Financial Times, McGraw Hill, and the Statue of Liberty / Ellis Island Foundation. Bob holds a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering and a BA in Physics and Mathematics, all from the University of Pennsylvania.