Our Management Team

Martin Southern - Managing Director

Martin Southern is the MD (CEO) of Shark Finesse and is also a qualified Chartered Accountant.

Martin brings extensive sales and management experience to the company as he was formerly Group MD of a fully listed LSE group, and Sales Director of a listed European services group. This direct sales background provides input to the company''s product offering that helps manage the real business issues that sales team face when trying to prove value. His formal finance background provides the input to the design of business case output that the sales team propose to their own customers... securing budget ahead of the rest.

Martin Cowan - Commercial Director

Martin Cowan co-founded Shark Finesse following 15 years working for global corporations during which time he has managed pre-sales support teams, overseas distributors and product groups.

Martin graduated in Electrical Engineering and Business from Imperial College and is a chartered engineer with extensive international technical sales experience. He brings this experience to bear by leading the commercial team within Shark that quantifies and develops the economic arguments for clients. Martin and his team are the interface with customers to ensure that client specific economic arguments based upon their key technical features are incorporated into the Shark software and are consistently delivered through to the end customer.

Stephen Jackett - Technical Director

Head of the product development team within Shark. Stephen is responsible for the identification and integration of the best technology features to enable business advantage for the sales users.

The technical team manage support calls and help lines, and have direct access to customers to gain feedback and thereby continually improve the usability of the software.

Stephen is a graduate of Loughborough University with extensive knowledge of software development and implementation.

Stuart Whitehall - Senior Development Manager

Responsible for the software product build and web development of the Shark business.

A graduate of Sheffield University, Stuart ensures that the customer specific arguments are incorporated into the software, to ensure consistency of delivery by the customer sales teams.

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