Barry D Hedley
- Chairman

Barry was formerly European founder and Global Chairman of Braxton Associates, an international strategy and financial consulting firm which later became the strategy practice of Deloitte Consulting. Under his leadership Braxton grew to around 1000 people worldwide. At Deloitte, Barry was also a member of the Global Management Committee directing its $4 billion consulting business.
Barry's professional concentration in recent years has been on linking strategy formulation and execution processes to shareholder value, and this has led him to his current role at Dialectyx.

He maintains an active academic role at the Judge Business School, Cambridge University, where he is a Senior Associate and teaches Advanced Business and Corporate Strategy and Financial Management. He is also an Emeritus Fellow and Director of Management Studies at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, where he was formerly Senior Bursar.

He has an MBA degree with High Distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar and Harkness Fellow, and First Class Honours degrees in both Mechanical and Chemical Engineering from Cambridge University. He is a Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institution of Engineering & Technology, and a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts (RSA).

Stephen Arnold
- Managing Director

Stephen graduated with honours in BSc in Business Management and with distinction in MSc in Digital Systems.

He founded Softa in 1986, building the company into one of the top consultancies in the UK. Softa specialised in the integration of strategy, planning and reporting processes, producing an innovative methodology - LivingStrategy - supported by its Sextant software. Stephen also lectured at leading business schools.

Softa sold its intellectual property to Deloitte Consulting in 1998 and Stephen became a global partner with responsibility for Strategic Enterprise Management and Financial and Performance Management. He continued to work with leading business schools and software vendors in this space.

Stephen and his team acquired the intellectual property from Deloitte to re-establish the Softa organisation in late 2002. During 2003, Softa worked closely with Cognos in the field of Corporate Performance Management which led to the purchase of Softa by Cognos in 2004.

Ben Calverley
- Client Services Director

Ben has spent over 20 years combining both business consultancy as well as software specification and development.

Ben graduated from the University of Aston in Birmingham in 1983 in Business Administration and French. Having spent 3 years in industry, Ben joined Softa, specialising in the integration of strategy, sales and marketing planning and reporting processes, producing an innovative methodology, LivingStrategy. At Softa, Ben was a key member in the specification and design of Softa's main software product, Sextant.

Ben moved to Deloitte in 1998 when it acquired Softa's IPR and was a manager in the Strategic Enterprise Management team working with large corporates and software vendors (predominantly SAP, Oracle and Hyperion) helping to apply technology to the strategy and planning processes.

Softa was subsequently bought by Cognos, the leading CPM and BI vendor, where Ben worked for 2 years in Corporate Performance Management, supporting both consultancy partners and clients.

Simon Palmer
- Technical Director

Simon Palmer studied Astrophysics at King's College, London, graduating in 1988. He has held various positions in both commerce, and Independent Software Vendors over a 20 year career in Software Engineering. His background in Physics and Mathematics has seen him cited as inventor on numerous patents and holder of IPR in various domains.

Simon is skilled both as a software engineer and as a manager. He has had day-to-day responsibility for teams from 5 to 100 in both the UK and Canada and specialised in the management of remote (transatlantic) development during 10 years with Cognos Inc. where, amongst other roles, he was Director of Software Development for their Applications business. He spent three years based in Ottawa, Canada.

During his career Simon has also been part of several successful software ventures, notably Right Information Systems, inventors of the Neural Network based mathematical modelling tool 4Thought which was acquired by Cognos Inc in 1997.

Abhishek Ghosh
- Sales and Marketing Manager

With an honours degree in Business Administration and Economics, Abhishek began his career working for a global insurance firm in the US, where he is still certified to sell insurance and investment products. After successfully progressing within the organisation, including being fast-tracked to sales management, Abhishek decided to relocate back to the UK and move into a more consultative role.

Consequently, he joined a leading learning and development consultancy, where for over six years he specialised in the design and marketing of an assortment of bespoke UK and EMEA-wide sales and management development initiatives.

Prior to joining Dialectyx, Abhishek helped setup and develop the consulting arm of one of the UK's fastest growing human capital management providers. In addition to sales and management development, his area of focus included designing bespoke talent management solutions.

Abhishek brings with him a detailed understanding of solution selling both within the UK and across EMEA, as well as experience and knowledge across a number of industries including IT, Telecommunications and Financial Services.