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Jacques Mottard, Executive Chairman |
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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, Chief Financial Officer |
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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, Chief Executive Officer |
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Heath 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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Mike Hughes
COO Software |
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Mike Hughes joined Sword Ciboodle in 1986 and is now Chief Operating Officer for the Sword Group. Since 1986 Mike has overseen the strategic shift in company focus from a local systems integrator to an international software business.
As the architect of the world's first business process platform and Sword Ciboodle's first software product, Mike has been integral to the company's innovative technological achievements.
Mike previously held the position of Technical Director at Energis Interactive where he successfully launched the digital television platform, Bright Blue.
Mike holds a BSc Hons in Computer Science from the University of Strathclyde. |
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| Jean-Marc Sonjon, COO Solutions |
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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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