Bob Haire

Bob, founder of Atlanta International, has a background in the European and USA IT market, having held senior management positions in both large and small IT companies on both sides of the Atlantic, such as Apple Computer and Mistral Computers. His hands-on management experience in many international roles have enabled him to build the skill set to successfully create Atlanta International and develop a presence for the company in eight countries, on three continents.

Ian Shearer

Ian is a qualified Chartered Accountant with 30 years industry experience. In that time he has operated as CFO, CEO, Non Executive Director and Chairman of a wide range of companies. In his career Ian has conducted every type of Equity Transaction possible including working on the buy side, working on the sell side, MBOs, MBIs, fundraisings etc. In 2005 Ian was a founder of LeCayla Technologies which was the first SaaS Company in Ireland and which Ian subsequently successfully sold to OpSource Inc (now a Division of NTT Docomo).

Ian is currently Non-Executive Chairman of a number of cutting edge technology companies including a subsidiary of Aplix Inc (Japanese public company). In addition Ian is Founder and Chairman of Bloom Equity which has quickly become Irelands leading Investment Syndicate for technology Companies.

Ian joined Atlanta in 2006 and has successfully led a large number of transactions within Atlanta. Ian has a good understanding of most technologies but has particularly strong understanding of the newer technologies such as SaaS, Cloud, Social Media and mobile. Indeed a number of the transactions Ian has led have been in these newer technologies.  

Janet Browne

Janet began her Management Career as a marketing executive with Cap Gemini Ernst and Young where she gained a good understanding of British industry which provided an excellent base for her career in IT and Executive Search. From there she spent fifteen years as a senior director with a leading supplier of large-scale clinical information systems and was an NHS project board member for Women and Children’s Health.

She has an excellent knowledge of general IT concepts, latest technologies and their application within health, social service and education sectors. Since 2003 Janet has been a senior partner with an International Mergers and Acquisitions organisation where, although specialising in public sector, she has been involved in deals and business strategy across diverse vertical markets.

Bharat H Gupta

Bharat , Managing Director at Atlanta Global Advisors based in New Delhi, is a Chartered Accountant and has worn many hats during his 25 year career. The initial years of his career were with Citibank and Unilever in India, before moving to become an entrepreneur , co-founding an IT venture, STEX , focussing on BPM IP based solutions targeting Fortune 500 BFSI companies.

He successfully ran this venture as CEO for a period of 14 years , with customers across all the 5 Continents, before divesting the same. Before becoming a part of Atlanta he was with 3i Infotech, a $600 Million IT products and services company as a member of their Operating Board.

His strong experience in Business, Strategy, Finance and Operations along with his ability to help Board’s think through real issues relating to organisational inorganic growth and strategy, makes him an expert “deal maker” , which has helped many companies achieve their milestones.

Bharat is also an Alumni of Indian Institute of Management and Harvard Business School ( Executive Education).

Colin Fox

Colin has a wealth of experience in the IT industry in a career spanning 3 continents and nearly a quarter of a century. Having worked for IBM in the UK and South Africa he joined Logica where he managed a number of business units in the UK and the USA effecting turnarounds of underperforming units and building Logica Finance’s flagship funds transfer business.

From Logica Colin moved to become Managing Director of the Intuitive Group which he grew from less than £4M revenues to over £15M over six years, establishing offices in Boston and Sydney and delivering leading edge products and services to some of the worlds largest financial institutions.

Having negotiated the trade sale of Intuitive to the US based IMRglobal Corp. in January 2001 he was responsible for integrating the two disparate UK operations and building the combined business into one of IMRglobal’s most profitable businesses prior to the sale to CGI Inc.

Colin holds a MA degree in Mathematics from Oxford.

Geoff Seabrook

Geoff Seabrook has an extensive background in corporate development and mergers and acquisition, gained while working for major American IT companies. Successful projects he has led include the acquisition of the UNIX business by SCO from Novell and the later sale of SCO UNIX business to Caldera. He also envisioned and led the acquisitions of Visionware and IXI, and the subsequent merging together to create Tarantella, which has now grown to be the world leader in enabling remote access to corporate applications.

Geoff started his career as an engineer, during which time he developed the technology for the first computer controlled sports stadium scoreboards. He started and then sold his own company during this period. He spent eleven years with Memorex, including periods as the Vice President of Marketing and Vice President of Strategy. It was during this time that he moved to Silicon Valley, where he has spent much of the past 20 years.

Most recently Geoff has spent thirteen years with SCO / Tarantella where he has been responsible for Corporate Strategy and Mergers and Acquisitions. During his time at SCO the company completed a successful IPO and grew to be the undisputed leader in its market. While at SCO, he took two breaks from the corporate development role, once to run the European operations and once to run the Asia/Pacific region for SCO.

Neil Robinson

Neil has over 25 years managerial experience both in government and in multinational IT corporations. He has worked closely with organisations in manufacturing, transportation, finance, government and academic environments ensuring that their technology decisions were aligned with their business and strategic directions. As General Manager, Asia Pacific for a US software company he expanded their reach into the rapidly growing technology markets of the region.

In the early 1990's he established a consulting firm to deliver leading edge organisational analysis and development services to organisations in both public and private sectors. Neil holds a post-graduate degree in accounting from Flinders University of South Australia.