The Board of Directors consists of UKISUG volunteers and are responsible for the Governance of the User Group. The Board work closely with our Chief Executive to set the strategy and direction of UKISUG.
Conor is Director of Customer Service – Europe, Middle East and Africa at Pfizer with a focus on Business Process Improvement and Value Realisation using ERP, Analytics and Process Mining. He has over 22 years’ experience working with SAP across a number of companies and has managed over 30 implementations in this time. Prior to Pfizer, Conor worked for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Xansa, Elan Pharmaceuticals and National Medical Care. He has been an active member of the User Group since 2010 and is a committee member of the Ireland Special Interest Group.
Philip is Head of IT at Mercury Engineering, responsible for the full IT portfolio and strategy across the Mercury Group. Philip managed the successful implementation and deployment of SAP in Mercury and his role takes responsibility for supporting and directing the future use of SAP in Mercury. Prior to joining Mercury, Philip worked for Accenture on projects spanning public sector and financial services. Philip became a Director of the UK & Ireland SAP User Group in 2010, served as Chairman from 2013 -2017, and is Community Chair for Ireland.
Paul has more than 25 years’ experience working with and managing SAP solutions. Currently Paul is the IT Director at Fox’s Burton’s Companies (FBC) UK Limited and is leading a number of significant IT and SAP - integration and transformation programmes. Prior to joining Burton's Paul worked for an SAP consultancy and was the Business Systems Director at Northern Foods. He has been an active member of the User Group for over 15 years Co-Chairing the ALM Special Interest Group and joined the Board of Directors in 2011, in 2017 Paul was appointed Chair of UKISUG.
Ian is currently IT Director at Warburtons and has been since 2015. He leads the IT team and has full responsibility for all information systems implementation, ongoing technology and business process support. Partnering with all heads of function to shape and execute business strategy and technology enablement. We are delighted to welcome Ian onto our Board of Directors, as of April 2022.
Emma has over 25 years’ experience in technical and business roles, linking business strategy to technical programme outcomes and ensuring service delivery meets operational needs. As Head of Apps & Platforms at Calor, part of SHV Energy family of companies, she is responsible for the multi-disciplinary teams delivering services and continuous improvement across Calor’s applications. Emma is co-chair of the UKISUG SAP S/4 HANA Community and sits on the Board of Directors. She is a dedicated advocate of women in tech and is committed to championing women’s development in the sector. She co-chairs the Women in SAP Community group and is co-host of the Women in Erp® Podcast.
Cheryl has over 13 years experience implementing, developing and supporting SAP. She is currently Head of Business Service Centre at Gloucestershire County Council where she is responsible for numerous back office services including payroll, AR and AP and of course SAP. Cheryl has co-chaired the Public Sector Community for over 7 years and was delighted to be appointed a Director of UKISUG in 2020.
Costa has more than 20 years of SAP experience delivering global implementations, strategic projects, upgrades, infrastructure installations, licensing, and cloud migrations. Costa's senior management portfolio includes CoE and Group Infrastructure management positions in global & FTSE organisations such as Pentland, RS Components and Dunelm. His focus is on service delivery excellence, innovation, Agile practices, and Kanban adoption. His aim is to provide long-term strategic direction and leadership for the development, enhancement, and implementation of systems, thinking outside the box and challenging the status quo to help maximise SAP capabilities and drive organisations forward. Costa has supported the SAP User Group as a board director and in various special interest groups for over 10 years, always bringing his skills and enthusiasm to the table.
John is currently the Chair of our Business One Community. John has been working in IT for more than 20yrs and supporting SAP Business One for the last 10yrs. In that time, he’s been involved in taking it from a vanilla Line 50 replacement to one that supports European distribution, warehousing and feeding multiple B2B and B2C websites with up to the minute data. We are delighted for John to join our Board of Directors as of April 2022.
