John Challis - CEO/CTO

John Challis is an experienced entrepreneur having had success with several previous ventures involving the management of unstructured data. In 1990 he founded Imagesolve International which quickly became the UK's leading supplier of Document Image Processing and Workflow products. 

John then launched ImageFirst Office for BancTec in the USA in 1995 closing over $5m new business in the first 12 months. Prior to Concept Searching he was CTO at Smartlogik; the company behind the world's first Probabilistic search engine.

Martin Garland - President North American and International Operations

Martin Garland has over 20 years experience in sales, marketing and general management, in particular concentrating on both start-up and turn around operations, with extensive international expertise, having managed operations throughout Europe, the US and Asia Pacific. 

Martin currently manages the North American and International operations of Concept Searching. Martin is on the board of the Knowledge Management Institute in Washington DC.

Paul Billingham - General Manager - Europe

Paul Billingham has been in sales for over 20 years working primarily within the Document Management and Workflow industry. He has a technical background, which is a major benefit when selling complex technology through a partner channel.

Previously the top salesman at both Imagesolve International and SNS Europe, Paul now manages the UK and European operations of Concept Searching where the focus is on selling through Systems Integrators and OEM partners.

Carla Mulley - Marketing Manager

Carla began her career at IBM and has specialized in marketing high technology software and services. Bringing extensive experience from a career that includes senior management positions in marketing and sales, Carla oversees all the company’s marketing operations. 

Carla’s expertise includes developing results oriented strategic and tactical marketing initiatives and the creation of new vertical and horizontal markets for technology solutions.

Marketing and PR enquiries:
Europe Tel:  +44 (0) 20 8144 9486
North America Tel:  +1 412 567 4948
marketing@conceptSearching.com 

David Rose FCCA - Financial Director

David spent many years at Kodak, where he qualified as an FCCA, and now has over 30 years of finance experience, with more than  20 years managerial and Board exposure.  As well as Kodak, David spent time working at Tandem Computers and  was Finance Director at FileNET North Europe (Imaging, Workflow, Content Management software), and more recently  FD at  Staffware plc (workflow and BPM software).
 
As well as working for large multi-nationals David also has in-depth experience with small start-up operations, having been FD at Imagesolve International, working alongside others who are now also part of the Concept Searching management team.