Ardentia's 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 is 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 and Sales & Marketing Director
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 25 years experience of working in and with the Public Sector , Tom is a keen advocate of the importance of quality information to support and improve systems , processes and services in the NHS and Local Government particularly through the benefits of personalised information access and delivery.
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.
John Lucchese – Operations Director
John joined Ardentia at the beginning of May 2006 and is an experienced IS director with a proven track record of customer services delivery, professional services delivery, project management and IT product development to many of the UK’s leading health care, logistics and manufacturing organisations.
Prior to joining Ardentia, John held Customer Services Director and Technical Services Director positions with the Anisa Group delivering IT solutions to the logistics and latterly manufacturing sectors. The two previous years were as Operations Director with ACT Medisys (a Misys PLC subsidiary) delivering IS solutions primarily to the private healthcare sector, and prior to that, six years managing product development and as product manager with AT&T’s health care Systems business delivering health care systems to the NHS and MoD.
Before this John spent 18 years working directly with the NHS on a number of regional and national patient care systems. John is a Computer Sciences graduate.