The board

The driving force and public face of the business, Peter founded Mimecast in 2002 with CTO, Neil Murray.

With the support of angel investors, loyal customers and a strong management team, Peter has overseen eight years of continual growth. We now have over 250 people globally and more than 3,500 customers, including 50% of the UK's top 100 law firms.

Peter’s career began in South Africa, where, after studying marketing and founding a successful distribution company, he trained as a Microsoft systems engineer and began working with corporate messaging systems. He founded his first technology company, FAB Technology, in the mid-nineties.

A leading integrator of new internet and messaging technologies, the business grew rapidly and was acquired in 1998 by Idion, a JSE-listed technology business. Peter became Idion Group Managing Director, a role he stayed in until, observing trends in internet business services, he decided to move to the UK.

Mike Hedger has a track record in building market-leading companies.  Previously CEO of market leading email archiving company KVS from its inception in 1999 to its successful sale to Veritas for $225 million in 2004 (now Symantec Enterprise Vault).

His former experience includes a four years as EVP worldwide operations at Forte, building the European business before moving to head up Worldwide Operations which culminated in a successful acquisition by Sun for $700 million.

Mike's earlier career included positions as VP Marketing Operations EMEA for Oracle, Managing Director UK and Northern Europe for INGRES/ASK and successful sales careers at both WANG and IBM.

Neil is one of the people who helped build Mimecast. Not just metaphorically, but literally. He’s led the development team from our inception – when he was the development team – overseeing the construction of our platform from the ground up. It’s thanks to him that Mimecast, uniquely, was conceived and built as a single, integrated platform rather a set of bolted-together services.

Today he oversees the architecture of the service platform and sets out the overall technical vision and strategy for the service.

Before Mimecast, Neil was the CTO of South African, JSE-listed, Global Technology Services, a provider of business information solutions, which had bought Pro-Solutions, a software development company he helped found in the early 90s.

Neil’s 20 year-career also includes experience architecting and building leading software products for internet banking, messaging and rapid application development.

As a City lawyer for twenty years Christopher was a Partner in Slaughter and May, primarily advising clients in the financial services sector.  He served on the Partnership Board for 9 years as Executive Partner and as Head of Banking practice.

In 1995 Christopher was Group General Counsel on the Board of NatWest Bank.  For three years from 2001 he was the first Chairman of the independent committee at the Financial Services Authority which had the exclusive responsibility for exercising all the FSA’s powers to impose disciplinary sanctions. During the same period he was also a Non-Executive Director of The Intercare Group, a FTSE listed pharmaceutical company, serving as Senior Independent Director and Chairman of the Remuneration Committee.

Currently Christopher is a both non-Executive Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Mimecast.  He also holds roles as Non-Executive Director of City Merchants High Yield Trust, a FTSE listed investment company; is a member of the Financial Reporting Council’s Review Panel; and Chairman of the Macfarlane Trust.

Bernard Dallé is a Partner at Index Ventures, which he joined in 1997. His areas of investment focus currently include enterprise infrastructure, applications and services.Bernard serves as a Director for several companies including Dimdim, Mimecast, OpenX, Optier, Pentaho, StorSimple and Worklight.Prior to joining Index, Bernard spent six years with McKinsey & Company and Procter & Gamble. While with Procter & Gamble, Bernard was responsible for the implementation of financial, accounting and logistics ERP systems.He has a MSc. in Electrical Engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and a MBA from Kellogg Graduate School of Business.

Peter was hired as CFO of Mimecast in 2006. He is responsible for overseeing the Company’s global financial strategy and operations. Since joining the organization as employee number 14, Peter has built a global team to meet the ever-changing financial and operational demands of a rapidly growing SaaS business. It now encompasses Finance, Human Resources, IT systems, Legal, Facilities Management and Admin.  Peter was a driving figure in securing the investment from Index Ventures and Dawn Capital in 2009 and the various Angel funding rounds that preceded them.

Peter brought 15 years experience in the IT sector to Mimecast. Prior to joining he was CFO of SR Telecom, a Nasdaq listed company with over 500 staff and operations in 26 countries, based in Montreal, Canada. Having joined as Assistant Controller, Peter was rapidly promoted through the ranks and was a key team member in securing the SEC listing and successful acquisitions including the $121M takeover of Netro Corporation.

Peter holds a Chartered Accountant Designation with the Canadian Order of Chartered Accountants, and is a Certified Public Accountant.