Management Team

Peter is a technology marketer and business leader with a successful track record and solid experience in starting, growing and leading flourishing businesses in the information technology sector.

Previously Managing Director of Idion Solutions, a gold-certified Microsoft partner in Cape Town, Peter’s first technology venture, FAB Technologies (Pty) Ltd, was strategically acquired by Idion Technology Holdings in 1998 to provide significant skills, intellectual capital and proprietary software. Fab Technologies, itself a leading Microsoft-certified solution provider and application developer, focused on web and workflow business solutions.

Hailing from South Africa originally, Peter moved to the UK to take advantage of the growing trends towards internet business services.

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Neil is a leading innovator in the SaaS industry, with over 20 years experience architecting and building leading software products for Internet banking, messaging and rapid application development.

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

Neil’s SaaS experience has precipitated from work on hosted application management through the last 2 decades, starting with data bureau services in the 80’s, migrating through web based application service provision in the 90’s and, more recently, the creation of dedicated SaaS utility grid solutions for Mimecast. 

Now settled in the UK, Neil’s responsibilities at Mimecast include the overall technical vision and strategy for the service, the architecture of the Mimecast service platform and leading the development team.

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Peter previously worked as CFO for SR Telecom Inc a Nasdaq listed company. His role covered worldwide operations overseeing functions including mergers & acquisitions, operations and financial reporting. 

Prior to this Peter was the Corporate Controller at LMS Medical Systems Inc. and also worked with Ernst & Young LLP, Assurance and Advisory Services from 1998-2002 in the High-technology group in Montreal.

Graduating with both a Bachelor of Commerce and Graduate Diploma in Accountancy from Concordia University, Peter holds a Chartered Accountant Designation with the Canadian Order of Chartered Accountants, and is a Certified Public Accountant in conjunction with the University of Illinois.

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William is a seasoned IT sales professional with over a decade of experience in Sales and Sales Management. William joined Mimecast as Sales Director in September, 2004 and had been instrumental in the sales success and building a customer base now exceeding 1000 customers worldwide.  His role spans the management and direction of Inside Sales, Enterprise Sales and Channel teams. 

Prior to joining Mimecast William was UK Sales Director at Cergis Software, and served as UK Sales Manager at Inceptor.

Before this William worked for a number of IT Security and Networking businesses including Zero Knowledge, LocalEyes and WorldCom.

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Garth has over 18 years experience in channel and market development for complex enterprise software applications in the Knowledge Management space.

As Marketing and Sales Director for Aquarium Technology (Pty) Ltd and later independently setting up local operations, he successfully introduced and established the footprint of a number of leading international software vendors into Southern Africa including Scopus CRM, (now Siebel), Keyfile EDM & BPM (now Global360) and Verity Inc (now Autonomy Plc). Garth has managed Mimecast South Africa since 2003.

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