Responsibilities
Lisa is in charge of working with the Board to create the right conditions for the company to flourish – through seasoned advice and practical support
Experience
Lisa has a long career including 18 years at HgCapital, a leading private equity firm investing in software and services businesses, where she ran the team working with their portfolio of investments. Since leaving HgCapital, Lisa has worked as an independent Chair person with a number of private equity backed companies – all technology enabled and all looking at organic and acquisitive growth opportunities.
Ambition
Lisa is passionate about helping businesses to succeed. Working with the teams to be the best they can be and watching the business thrive is extremely rewarding
About
Lisa is Australian and lives with her husband and 2 children in Sussex. She loves travel, reading, cooking, dogs and horses.
Responsibilities
Eric is in charge of the Group strategy and leading the Group’s development plans.
Experience
Eric has 15 years of exposure to the payroll sector and 17 years experience in professional services prior to this, giving him a firm understanding of the sector. In addition, he has been in many executive and non-executive roles which have provided him with experience of private equity and other external funding sources as well as many business acquisitions and disposals.
He has worked with a range of management teams to collaboratively grow them and the businesses they worked with.
Ambition
Eric brings drive, energy and enthusiasm to all the businesses he is involved with. As well as grasping the “big picture” he is capable of mastering the detail of processes and situations to help the team arrive at potential solutions and implement those solutions swiftly.
About
Personal passions are business, cycling, Liverpool Football Club, sport, cars, food – cooking and eating out, politics and learning new things!
Responsibilities
Matt’s focus is on M&A strategy and the successful identification and execution of bolt on acquisitions.
Experience
Matt has worked with a number of businesses to define and deliver their M&A strategies over a number of years. He was previously a Director in M&A Advisory at Deloitte and has 16 years of experience.
Ambition
Passionate about building relationships with management teams, helping them to create value either personally as vendors or as acquirers of strategically compelling businesses.
About
Matt’s passions are family & friends – ideally with them in a beautiful location with a beer. Sport – an outrageously competitive amateur at anything, with cycling and football being the real true loves. The North – proud Lancastrian living in Yorkshire. Food – will eat anything and loves to cook up a curry, hot sauce is my friend.
Responsibilities
Dan is responsible for all the operating activities across the Group. This ranges from the implementation of new clients to the running of the outsourced teams and the software support. Dan is also focused on driving commercial opportunities which arise.
Experience
Dan is a Chartered Accountant who has worked across practice, industry and in private equity.
He has spent the last 10 years either working for, or in private equity to identify the drivers behind businesses and looking at ways to grow them. Since joining the PSSG Dan has moved from commercial executive to Group COO.
Ambition
Dan loves seeing the potential in SMEs and how with a bit of professionalisation, you can supercharge the growth. He can quickly understand opportunities and match them to the data the business has, to drive change which falls to the bottom line.
About
Dan is sports mad but doesn’t get to play as much as he would like. He still gets in the odd round of golf, but mainly enjoys sport as a spectator these days.
Responsibilities
As CFO Michelle manages financial planning and risk. She is responsible for financial reporting and analysis.
Experience
Michelle has over 30 years of financial experience in a wide range of sectors, with a variety of structures and funding. She has been a CFO for 12 years and in this time has been involved in expansions, acquisitions and an exit. She has formed and managed many finance teams and undertaken many finance process reviews and improvements.
Ambition
Her goal is to help businesses maximise their value and ensure her team fully support the operators to run the business effectively.
About
Michelle has a large family in Norfolk and Cyprus and loves to spend time with them whenever possible. She likes to spend her time eating good food with friends and going on long walks.
Responsibilities
Linda is responsible for the delivery of outsourced services across the group.
Experience
Linda has experience in both private and public sector payrolls, from service delivery, payroll account management, parallel processing and the transition of new payrolls into live service. Linda has also dealt with the production of payroll procedures, managing complex pay rules, assisting the bid team as the payroll lead on large payroll bids and establishing efficiencies and improvements within the payroll delivery service team. 36 years of industry experience.
Ambition
Linda enjoys challenges and making a difference and loves feeling a sense of achievement when projects are completed. She works in an organised and structured way, ensuring best practice and procedures are followed.
About
A down to earth person, Linda enjoys socialising with friends and holidays in the sun!
Responsibilities
Product, Development and IT across the entire PSSG group.
Experience
Seb has built and run product and development teams in high growth and high uncertainty environments, working for some of the fastest-growing VC and PE-backed tech companies in the UK. He also built his own web development agency from nothing to 31 people, opening offices internationally. 14 years of industry experience.
Ambition
Seb is obsessed with building great tech products that genuinely solve real-world problems. One of his biggest drivers is hearing how much customers love the products, and knowing they’re somehow making a positive impact in the world.
About
Outside of work, you will likely find Seb reading a good book or on his road bike. He has been known to commute 20 miles each way on his bike, and completed the London to Brighton bike ride. Seb is also a dad to a 6-year-old daughter who has an answer to everything and unlimited energy. One of his hardest roles in life!
Responsibilities
Ed is responsible for sales and marketing across the group.
Experience
Ed is an entrepreneurial sales leader, with 18 years of experience working in high pressure sales and sales leadership roles.
Ed has experience in closing software and outsourcing deals from £1,000 to £12 million, running high-volume sales pipeline, executive marketing strategies, and selling new products and services into the market.
Ambition
Ed loves sales, equally comfortable pitching to a CEO as he is making cold calls alongside a junior sales person. Transforming a sales team into a high performance sales machine is his goal.
About
Personal passions are boxing, walking in nature with family, and meditation.
Responsibilities
Francesca is responsible for people within The PSSG, their development, compensation and recognition.
Experience
Francesca has 25 years of HR consultancy experience in a range of sectors including supporting PSSG from day one, prior to joining the Board in April 2022. As a consultant, Francesca provided advice to clients on all employee related enquiries; payroll processing expertise; coaching for internal teams; and support through change management, restructures and redundancy consultations in line with the needs of the particular business. Prior to this, Francesca worked in restaurant management and operations.
Ambition
Francesca’s focus is to create and maintain a positive work environment to motivate high performance with a culture of recognition.
About
Working in the restaurant industry, Francesca developed a healthy interest in good food and wine. She loves cooking and entertaining. Francesca works out regularly and walks her dog daily to keep both her body and mind in shape.
Responsibilities
Marketing across the businesses and the Group.
Experience
Chloe has experience working for companies of different sizes in various industries. She is both highly analytic and creative which has given her a diverse skill set, beneficial in all areas of marketing.
Ambition
She is driven by seeing how strategic marketing can help drive results and loves watching companies grow and reach their potential. She believes it’s important to never stop learning and that you can do almost anything you put your mind to.
About
Chloe relocated from London to the North East in 2021 and loves spending time outdoors, running and cycling. She enjoys developing her skills outside of work too and has qualified as a yoga teacher and reflexologist.