Who We Are
Board of Directors
Gary Luke – Managing Director
Gary graduated with a Computer Science Degree in 1984 and embarked on a successful career in the IT industry with organisations such as AT&T.
Gary has a wealth of industry experience and expertise in large–scale systems development, implementation and support.
As Technical Director, Gary was instrumental in the management buy-out of Acuity Healthcare in 1998 that led to the creation of ARDENTIA in 1999.
In 2002 Gary became the Managing Director of ARDENTIA and has developed and managed the business, which has grown in staffing and turnover 4 fold during the period 2002–2004 and the plan is to continue this growth pattern over the next 3-5 years.
Tom Mulhern – Founder
Tom led the management buy–out of Acuity Healthcare in 1998 that led to the creation of ARDENTIA in 1999. Tom graduated in Business Studies and spent 10 years as an accountant with the NHS before making a career move into computer software and services. Tom went on to work with ICL, QaBS, AT&T and Acuity. With over 30 years experience of working in and with the NHS, Tom is a keen advocate of the importance of high quality information to support and improve systems and services in the NHS particularly the benefits of personalised information access and delivery. Tom is involved in a number of projects both in the UK and the Middle East based upon achieving cost effective and clinically effective delivery of care.
Ken Churchill – Business Development Director
Ken has responsibility for business development, helping to extend the company´s range of business solutions within the health and local government sectors. These solutions are delivered through Ardentia´s team of experienced consultants or through a growing set of strategic and alliance partners.
An Operational Research graduate, Ken worked for 11 years in the NHS within the West Midlands addressing planning and service delivery issues across the region. He subsequently worked as a managing consultant for AT&T on national projects within the NHS and for Acuity Healthcare for 8 years focusing on the delivery of information and its use by managers. He has over 25 years experience in IT and business intelligence solutions.
The Sales Team
Mark Vizard - Territory Manager
Mark’s involvement in health informatics covers more than fifteen years. He began working in the Finance Office of Medway Health Authority before becoming a software trainer for a Primary Care software vendor. Mark has a Masters Degree in Distributed Computing Systems in 2001 and his work at Tata Consultancy Services, Fujitsu and Logica has given him substantial experience in Secondary Care Business Development.
Mark joined the Ardentia Sales Team in 2010 as a Territory Manager.
Tim Lavers – Territory Manager
Tim has 8 years experience of selling into the healthcare market. Before joining Ardentia, he was a Healthcare Sales Relationship Manager at Microsoft, where he acted as a pivotal point of contact for NHS trusts in his geographical area. Subsequently Tim worked as a healthcare account manager for BI software solutions within Sollis, before making the move to Ardentia.
The Management Team
Phil Dodd – Delivery Manager
Phil is responsible for the delivery of Ardentia solutions to NHS Trusts and PCTs in Wales and the North of England. Prior to this he played a leading role in Ardentia’s contribution to the NWCS/SUS project. Phil has particular expertise in the design and implementation of patient-based systems and their use in satisfying the information needs of end-users for operational purposes and for service monitoring and planning.
Phil joined the team at Ardentia seven years ago and has over 25 years experience in patient and information systems.
John Astley – Project Manager
John, one of Ardentia’s dedicated Project Managers, has been working in the IT industry since the late 1970s, beginning his career as an IBM Assembler (DOS) programmer before moving into application development and project management.
John joined Ardentia in July 2009 from SAS and has specialised in implementing business intelligence and data warehousing solutions for over 15 years.
Steve Gould – Project Manager
Steve has worked in IT for 25 years. His career has seen him work as a programmer for a software house, an IT Manager and, in the 4 years prior to joining Ardentia, as an Implementation Consultant for a large ERP software author.
Steve is qualified as a PRINCE2 Practitioner.
Phil Wilson – Project Manager
Phil joined Ardentia in April 2010 as a project manager.
Prior to joining Ardentia Phil managed several large scale Data Warehouse/BI solutions for Barclays Bank.
Phil is a PRINCE 2 Practitioner and MANAGING SUCCESSFUL PROGRAMMES Advanced Practitioner
Chris Williams – Product Strategy Manager
Chris has worked for Ardentia for eight years, working within the health informatics industry since 1996, being involved predominantly with national scale informatics, both commercial and in the NHS since the start of his career in 1991.
Before Ardentia Chris has been responsible for the development of several vertical market products. He now works across a few roles within Ardentia; in business development, as a domain and commercial lead within the National Program and a business, process and requirements specialist for Ardentia being responsible for the concept and initial design for several of Ardentias products and also national services and process within SUS.
John Astbury – Development Manager
John is one of Ardentia most experience employees having over 28 years NHS IT experience. He is an expert in NHS Information systems and has managed several large scale NHS development projects.
Currently John is responsible for the management and development of all of Ardentia’s core product developments as well as for the day-to-day supervision of the Development team.
Keith Sherratt – Principal Solutions Architect
Keith is currently responsible for the technical design authority group within Ardentia and is involved in directing the architecture and strategic direction of the technology upon which the company creates its solutions.
Keith has over 20 years experience as a developer beginning with the IRC Patient Administration System in 1988. After 5 years at the NHS, Keith worked for a number of multinational organisations including AT&T, EDS and AT&T Bell Labs before joining Ardentia in 2001.
