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Durrants employs over 350 experienced staff across the organisation. The senior management team are profiled below. If you would like to meet them or the rest of the team, contact us to arrange a tour.

John Moore, Chairman
John Moore

John has joined Durrants after a ten year career at Dell Inc. Most recently he was the Vice President of Regional Businesses and was responsible for a portfolio of Dell's direct operations as well as the Emerging Markets business where the company operates through an indirect distribution network. The direct operations included Switzerland, Ireland, South Africa, Poland, Czech Republic, Finland and Greece. His early years with the company were as the Vice President Finance for Commercial Operations across EMEA. Prior to Dell John held a variety of positions within the consumer products industry in Europe, including roles with Pepsi and Quaker Oats. He also had several successful years as a strategy consultant with Booz Allen and Hamilton in New York. John graduated with a Commerce degree from University College Dublin and he followed on to Boston College where he obtained an MBA.

 
Jeremy Thompson, Managing Director
Jeremy Thompson

Jeremy began his career on The Thomson Corporation Graduate Scheme and spent 4 years working through sales, publishing and product development at Sweet & Maxwell. He then spent 2 years building PR Newswire's internet and press monitoring service in the UK. Prior to joining Durrants, Jeremy was Deputy Managing Director of the news division of Xtreme Information, responsible for operations. He worked closely with the Deloitte mergers advisory team to lead the integration of Durrants and Xtreme News in 2004. Jeremy graduated in classics from Manchester University.

 
Simon Fathers, Product Development Director
Simon Fathers

Simon joined Durrants in 2001 from the Thomson Corporation. Previously at Churchill Livingstone and Sweet & Maxwell, he has 20 years' experience of product development in media and professional (legal, medical, business) publishing. For the last 11 years he has specialised in transforming hard copy formats into successful web-delivered services. Simon trained as a solicitor after graduating in law from Sheffield University.

 
Kerry Jenkins, Finance Director
Kerry Jenkins

Kerry joined Durrants in October 2007 from Dell Inc where he held a number of senior roles over a period of 11 years including Finance Director of EMEA Regional Businesses and EMEA Planning Director. He has extensive experience of business partnering with country management teams, supporting significant Revenue growth and improved profitability. Prior to Dell, he had a long career with ICL Ltd, where he was involved in a number of pre and post acquisition activities in Europe and the USA. Kerry is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

 
Charles Mayer, Sales Director
Charles Mayer

After graduating in Commercial Management from Nottingham University Charles joined training schemes with McNicolas Plc and then Rentokil Initial before joining Clipserver.com as Sales Director. Clipserver pioneered electronic and web based media monitoring solutions listing on AIM and establishing offices in Paris and New York before being acquired by Xtreme News in 2002 and subsequently Durrants in 2005, during these integration periods Charles managed client relationship and communication.

 
Stephen Wicks, IT Director
Stephen Wicks

Stephen joined Durrants in 1989 and has worked on many of the company's systems since then. He has played a critical role in the planning and implementation of Durrants' systems, becoming IT Director in early 2004. Stephen has extensive practical experience and in-depth knowledge of enterprise databases, server platforms and programming languages. He holds a number of industry certifications.

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