We are very fortunate to benefit from the advice and guidance of an Independent Advisory Board. The invitation-only Board includes experts from several industries, all of whom have extensive experience and are highly regarded by their customers, peers and industry analysts.

The Independent Advisory Board is assisting Datanomic to better understand the specific market pressures and issues experienced by their prospective customers in our target industries.

		Tony Morris – Advisory Board Chairman An IT industry veteran, Tony Morris is an entrepreneur, investor, independent Director, and consultant providing strategy and venture development advice to technology companies and investors on both sides of the Atlantic. He has made 26 direct investments in private technology companies and is an LP in several US and UK venture capital and private equity firms. He is an experienced Board Director and has been profiled as a successful investor in ‘Winning Angels’ by Harvard Business School’s Howard Stevenson and David Amis and ‘Raising Venture Capital Finance in Europe’ by Keith Arundale.In 1980 Tony founded Morris Decision Systems, a pioneering PC reseller and network systems integrator in New York, ranking #9 on the Inc. 500 when sold. Tony has an AB from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Stanford University. He is a member of the Dean’s Council at the Harvard Kennedy School.
		Dr Mike Hamm Dr Hamm has 20 years management experience in IT industry, and his senior executive roles include both large organisations such as Unisys, NCR, SAS and SAP Business Objects and start-up firms such as Forte Software or Quadrant Risk Management. Mike has worked internationally throughout his career, with successful assignments in the US, UK, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Eastern Europe, and has gained extensive expertise in the banking and insurance markets. Mike received a PhD from the University of Vienna/Austria in Theoretical Physics.
		Keith Willets Keith Willetts is Chairman and founder of the TM Forum, an international telecoms trade association with over 700 member companies covering 185 countries. Prior to TM Forum, Keith held a variety of executive positions at TCSI in California and British Telecom in the UK (including membership of BT’s Technical Advisory Board), was Chairman of Comnitel Technologies in Ireland (now IBM), Chairman of Evolved Networks in the UK, and Chairman of Appium in Sweden (now Aepona). Enjoying almost 40 years’ senior level business experience in the telecoms industry, Keith has been honored twice in the Communications Week “Top 25” awards for industry visionaries, has been awarded the British Computer Society’s Gold Medal for innovation and the BT Gold Medal for innovation. He was recently voted in the Top 50 most influential people in the communications industry by in a recent Global Telecoms Business poll. Keith also co-authored the influential book, “The Lean Communications Provider”.
		Ian Smith Ian Smith is now Managing Partner of Anderson Bick Consultants LLP, his own executive coaching consultancy, but was until recently Regional Senior Vice President of Oracle UK, Ireland & Israel, a post he held for nine years. Prior to his tenure at Oracle, he joined BT as Director of Customer Service, was subsequently made Managing Director of BT’s consumer division, and finally Managing Director of BT UK Customer Service. Ian serves on the Board of Business in the Community (BITC), is a member of BITC’s Education Leadership Team and chairs BITC’s South East Leadership team. He has held the post of President of the Institute of Customer Services since its inception over ten years ago. Until 2008, he served on the Board of Junior Achievement-Young Enterprise, and in February 2009 was confirmed as Chairman of Young Enterprise UK. He is a Faculty member of Merryck & Co, a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, a Fellow of the City & Guilds Institute, a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute, and an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University.