Directors

Mark Fallon - Managing Director
Mark, a law graduate, is a highly experienced business manager with over 20 years experience of developing and running solution orientated software and services companies solving complex IT problems. Prior to joining BlueSky, Mark  was running Northern Europe for Candle the 3^rd largest independent software company in the World. Here he was acquired into IBM where he became a member of the World Wide Tivoli Management team and responsible in EMEA for running one of the largest and fastest growing  software pillars  within IBM.

Dave Thomas - Finance Director
Dave is a qualified Chartered Account. He has responsibility for the Group’s finance, HR, IT and legal functions. Previously, Dave was CFO of ALG Software a private equity backed global business solutions software developer, Dave helped return ALG to profit and double revenues in two years before selling the business for 30 times EBITDA to Business Objects in October 2006. Prior to ALG, Dave worked for KPMG. Dave has a degree in Geography, an MBA and has a passion for most sports, most especially Rugby Union.

Tom Steele - Product and Technical Director
22 years experience in delivering large scale software solutions to Tour Operators. Tom designed and led development of the MyTravel (formerly Airtours), computer reservations system back in the mid 1980’s and is considered a leading expert in his field. Immediately prior to BlueSky he was IT Director for Holidays By Phone (UrbanWeb Limited).

Gary Haynes - Projects Director
Gary is a seasoned IT professional with a proven track record in business development, delivering complex projects on time and within budget. Gary has more than 20 years IT experience exclusively with commercial software and consultancy companies such as Candle Corporation, Touche Ross (now Deloitte Consulting) and more recently IBM, working in a range of business areas including finance, utilities, defence and government. Gary has worked on very large scale IT and business programmes encompassing a broad range of platforms, applications and technologies.

Nick Fowler - Sales and Marketing Director
Nick has been in sales management for more than 20 years. He was sales director at First Software, a management buy-out from Oracle, which grew from 45 staff in 1995 to 250 in seven offices worldwide.  After the sale to Viridian in 2000, Nick retained the position of sales and marketing director for a further six years.  Nick joined BlueSky in January 2006 as sales and marketing director.

Lesley Ingleson - Customer Services Director
Lesley has worked in the IT industry for over 20 years, initially gaining experience in a variety of roles, ranging from sales and consultancy to technical software development and implementation. For the past 8 years she has worked in the travel industry, and has operated at board level as managing director of a profitable European tour operator company as well as in IT director roles.