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Key Executives
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Jacques Mottard, Chairman and joint CEO |
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Jacques Mottard founded SWORD in December 2000. Prior to this he was the chairman of the Metamor Group in Europe.
Between 1989 and 1999, Jacques Mottard founded and developed Decan, until the friendly takeover by the Metamor group in February 1999.
Previously, he had occupied the position of sales engineer at Bull, as well as regional manager for the Rhône-Alpes and then managing director at Comelog (IT services). Jacques Mottard holds degrees in both science and management (Montpellier ESTP (Grande école for public works engineering) and IAE (company administration institute)). |
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Françoise Fillot, Executive Vice-President, Administration and Finance |
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Before joining SWORD, Françoise Fillot had served as financial director of a number of organisations including 9 years as the financial director at the Decan Group. She has a degree in management / accounting.
Françoise Fillot was a founding member of SWORD Group and managed the IPO process.
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| Heath Davies, joint CEO |
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Mr Davies joined SWORD in April 2002, becoming chief operating officer for UK operations in 2004, having previously held a number of positions within the Group including operations director, business unit director and sales and marketing director.
Prior to joining SWORD Heath was Director of Operations at Text Systems and Sales Director at Cimage Enterprise Systems
He holds a B (Eng) (Hons) degree from the University of Greenwich and is a National Engineering Scholarship winner, from the National Engineering Council, UK. |
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| Tony Holland, COO Software |
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The first part of Tony Holland's career was focused on financial services, particularly international brokering, after which he joined Lloyd’s Corporation.
Tony held various positions at Intech since the early 1980s, until he was appointed Executive Managing Director in 1999.
He held that position until December 2005 when, under his impulse, Intech joined SWORD Group. Since then, Tony has been promoted Director of Operations in charge of products (Software). |
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| Jean-Marc Sonjon, COO Solutions (Europe) |
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Jean Marc SONJON had been the director of DECAN’s “IDL” Business Unit since 1998.
The unit specialised in GIS and EDM. Over the course of his career in IT services, he occupied positions as project manager, project director and business engineer in various IT services companies: Syseca, Focal and Comelog.
He has a university degree in computer science, and holds a DEST (post graduate diploma in technology).
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| John Innes, COO Solutions (UK) |
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John Innes was promoted to COO for SWORD Solutions UK in 2007. Previously he held the positions of operations director and business unit director.
Prior to SWORD, John was Sales Director at Pragma Systems. John has occupied various sales positions in areas such as entertainment, energy, and IT systems. He was promoted to BU Director in 2005 and Director of Operations in 2006.
He holds a degree in English from the University of Aberdeen.
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