About Us

Jon Newbery

Chairman

Jon Newbery has 20 years of management, finance, operational, and turnaround experience. He qualified as an accountant with Arthur Andersen in London, before moving to Warsaw, Poland in 1991 to assist in establishing the consultancy s presence there. Jon moved to Australia in June 2000, where he joined Newport Capital Group as an investment director. While at Newport, Jon worked with young Australian companies advising on fund raising, restructuring and exit opportunities. In 2002, Jon established his own operational consulting business, where he successfully ran a number of early stage technology businesses.

Jon holds a BSc in Physics from the University of Nottingham (England) and is a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.

Bill Tickner
Chief Executive Officer

Bill was appointed Chief Executive in 2010 having previously served as VP Sales. He brings an entrepreneurial commercial leadership style and over 20 years’ experience gained from senior management roles within specialist technology businesses from the financial services and telecom sectors.

Prior to joining IMX, Bill was Chief Executive of Omnix Software, a UK-based software business serving global clients. He has held senior roles including Vice-President, EMEA at Clarity, a provider of telecom operational support systems, and Vice-President at Convergys Corporation, where he led business development teams throughout Europe and Asia Pacific.

Prior to Convergys, Bill led EMEA business development for Geneva Technology, a UK-based software company. After 4 years of rapid growth Geneva was acquired by Convergys in 2001 for $692m.

In addition, Bill has held senior commercial management roles at two UK-based, VC-backed technology start-ups to support early-stage sales and market development.

Bill holds an Executive MBA from Henley Business School (University of Reading).

David Phillips
Chief Financial Officer

David Phillips has over 25 years commercial and finance experience gained in a variety of organisations including Sanofi-aventis where he worked as Head of Finance and Head of Supply chain for the UK generics medicines division of the global pharmaceutical company.
Prior to that he was Finance Director of Flomerics Group Plc – a software engineering company where he was involved in a successful flotation on to the Alternative Investment Market.

David has a Degree in Accounting and Finance from Kingston University and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.