Dave Hunt, Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Dave Hunt, founder and CEO of C2C brings more than 20 years of entrepreneurial experience and email management expertise to the organization. Dave Hunt co-founded C2C in 1992 with a vision to help IT Managers and businesses solve their message system problems.

Prior to founding C2C, Dave Hunt founded and managed a strategic IT marketing consultancy firm focusing on business development and specialist technologies of PC/Unix integration and messaging systems. The Company went on to become the first hi-tech centric marketing company in the UK to be recognized by the UK Government’s Department of Trade and Industry under the Marketing Initiative award scheme in 1989. In addition, Dave Hunt has held positions with ICL, the largest European computer manufacturer (now a constituent of Fujitsu) as a networking consultant and product manager. He was a director in business development and marketing roles for international operations at Datapoint.
Dave Hunt was educated at Sheffield University (mathematics) and has participated as a thought leader for the European Electronic Messaging Association throughout the 80′s and 90′s and consulted in how to help IT managers solve their email issues.

Ken Hughes, Chief Technology Officer & Board Director

Ken joined C2C in January 2005 and since then has made a substantial contribution to the technical support and development departments of the Company and more widely to the senior management team. Ken started his career as a Communications Engineer in the British Army where he spent 11 years working on various satellite, data communications and radio systems. Since leaving in 1996 he has worked with software for large communications solutions for Ericsson and Vodafone, and then for various software companies as a Technical Manager / Director responsible for Support, QA Testing, Engineering and Development teams. Ken’s responsibility covers all technical teams of C2C including Development, Support, Consulting, QA and IT.  In 2011, Ken was appointed to the main Board of the Company.

Sally Riley, Human Resources Director & Co-Founder

C2C’s HR Director has worked in the software industry for over 25 years with a wealth of experience in personnel management. In the last four years she has become a trained counselor which helps her role in C2C and reflects her interest in people. The first 17 years of her career was at ICL (now Fujitsu). She was then headhunted to set up and help run the development section of a start-up silicon chip company based in Bracknell. In 1989 she joined a consultancy company set-up by Dave Hunt and since then she has helped to set up and run C2C, both in the UK and US. She has recently brought psychometric testing and intelligence testing into C2C which has proven successful in staff recruitment and retention.

Andrea Hall, Marketing Director

Andrea joined C2C in November 2010 to further develop their marketing strategies in direct sales and channel markets, both local and international. Andrea has more than 20 years experience in the IT industry and before joining C2C, held marketing management positions for Content and Document Managment Software, Security Software and Data Warehouse Appliance vendors where she developed measurable marketing activities with a strong focus on ROI. Andrea’s responsibilities have included the development of joint value propositions with strategic partners and channel management to create new routes to market.

Andrew Brown, Sales Manager, EMEA

Andrew has a wealth of experience garnered from 20 years experience in the IT storage sector. At C2C, his responsibilities include total end-to-end channel management, from identifying the most suitable partners, to ongoing account management and sales enablement. Andrew joined C2C from hardware vendor, Tandberg Data, where he was the Regional Manager for UK, Eire and South Africa. Whilst at Tandberg Data, he was responsible for channel sales and market development in the region, successfully growing business by 60%. Prior to Tandberg Data, he worked for various storage resellers and distributors.

Mike Taylor, Vice President of Americas

Mike Taylor joined C2C as VP of Sales in November 2009. Before joining C2C, Mike was VP of Worldwide Sales at nTAG Interactive, where he led the sales and business development teams from 2005 to 2009, growing sales revenue 600% during that period. Prior to joining nTAG, Mike was VP of Sales at ReefEdge Networks, an early entrant in the wireless LAN switch market. Mike has also held sales leadership positions at InBoxer, Polycom, iBasis, Axis Communications, and Intranets.com. Mike began his sales career at Sprint Business. Mike holds an MBA from Babson College’s F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business and a BA from Bates College. In 2011, he was promoted to VP of Americas.