The Symatrix Team

Firstly we must point out that we are a team, not a loose grouping of individuals or independent contractors. (A successful team coach doesn’t choose players at random – they will choose those who are supportive and pull together.)

To be part of our Symatrix team, people have to be special – and join full time having a genuine interest in being - and staying - the best in their field. They are also highly experienced in HR – they may well have worked for a company like yours as an HR, Payroll or Training Manager and therefore understand the business processes that the solution they are building will support as well as how to implement software. We all believe that if the team enjoy what they do, they will always give of their best for their client - all creating a virtuous circle.

Each member of the Symatrix team is highly trained and we want them to stay that way – that’s why they all do at least 20 days business and product training each year to ensure that they are up to date.

We thought you’d like to hear directly about some of people who make Symatrix ‘tick’:

Paul Gillott

Paul Gillott’s background covers over 22 years in the IT industry. In that time he has developed many successful businesses including setting up the initial PC World operation within the UK.

Paul’s early experience of HR management systems was developing the UK arm of a large worldwide HR management business where he saw the potential of the marketplace. Utilising his MBA knowledge and his entrepreneurial skills lead to the founding of Symatrix in December 1999 with the idea of specialising in Oracle HRMS implementation.

Paul is Managing Director of Symatrix and is therefore responsible for running the business in its entirety.

John Brownhill

John Brownhill joined the Symatrix team in September 2004, having been a very key and successful leader of the Oracle team involved with the Human Resource Management suite of products. He has 16 years experience within the HR marketplace with companies such as Peterborough Software and latterly as Applications Director at Oracle. John has been involved in more than 300 HR software projects across a wide range of organisations.

His knowledge of the market place and specifically HRMS is an extremely valuable asset to Symatrix. (It has to be said that John’s move from Oracle to Symatrix was looked upon very positively by Oracle).

John’s role as Commercial Director within Symatrix is developing new business and maintaining relationships with existing clients.

Nick Pike

Nick Pike is a Non Executive Director at Symatrix and has been since November 2000.

Nick is a very experienced Director of businesses having been an integral part of the top team at Dell as a Vice President - including Managing Director Central Europe, UK Managing Director and then heading up their Global Business. Prior to Dell, Nick worked with The Xerox Corporation holding various Sales and Central Marketing management positions. Nick is currently Managing Director of Rose Bowl plc, a group that includes Hampshire Cricket Club.

His main focus at Symatrix is as a business advisor and being a strong, experienced mentor to the team, overseeing the strategic direction of the company. Nick is also well versed in Corporate Governance and ensuring that Symatrix is an appropriately run company.