Our Leadership Team.

Nick Wilson

Chief Executive Officer

Nick is well known in the UK and Internationally and as a software CEO with extensive experience of growth, M&A, sales, operations and transformation, serving Health and Care and the wider Public Sector. Nick’s core focus is on delivery excellence and focus on improving customer and colleague satisfaction. He is a technically astute leader and an expert in delivering major programmes, transforming businesses and delivering sustainable growth. Nick was named as one of the top 25 SaaS CEOs in Europe in 2020 by The Software Report. Most recently, Nick was the CEO of Allocate Software, a global provider of workforce management solutions across health and care.

Nick lives with his wife Catherine and 2 sons, Ollie (15) and Tom (14) along with a small posse of sheep, chickens, bees, dogs and a cat (who thinks she is a dog). Nick is a big Rugby and Newcastle United fan and a keen traveller and back country skier.

Jon Harston

Chief Finance Officer

Jon is a business-oriented CFO who has extensive experience in growing international software businesses both organically and through M&A. He's a qualified chartered accountant and since leaving the accounting practice has held several senior finance positions.  Most recently Jon was the CFO of Allocate Software, a provider of workforce management solutions across health and care.  Prior to that Jon was the CFO of BluJay Solutions, a provider of supply chain and logistics software solutions.  At System C Jon is responsible for the full spectrum of CFO activities including finance, legal, corporate development and governance.

Guy Lucchi

Managing Director of Healthcare

Guy is passionate about the power of digital enabled change to improve patient outcomes and workforce experience. He has an impressive background as a digital leader, with a proven track record for shaping and delivering some of the largest and most complex digital enabled transformation programmes in healthcare.

Guy was previously joint Digital Innovation Director for Health Innovation Manchester and Chief Digital Officer for the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership.

Prior to that, he spent much of his career as a Chief Technology Officer with global IT giant DXC Technology. Notably, he was the CTO for the company’s product portfolio that has led to significant digitisation of administration and electronic patient record systems across much of the NHS. He was also instrumental in developing DXC’s global healthcare cloud strategy.

As the Healthcare Managing Director Guy will lead System C’s healthcare division, and in particular will help customers achieve the higher levels of digitisation, HIMSS 5 and beyond, along with the new Minimum Digital Foundations (MDF) requirements.

Brian Collins

Chief Technology Officer

Brian has a firm and passionate belief in the huge potential of technology for supporting a company’s customer needs and driving business growth. He also has an impressive leadership background, with more than 20 years' experience in the technology sector.

Before joining System C, Brian was CTO at Accelya, a mission-critical software business which runs systems for the airline industry. There, he led the transformation of the research and development (R&D) function, developing new solutions and re-platforming many of those on which the world’s air transportation industry depends.

Prior to Accelya, Brian spent ten years at Datalex, a market leader in digital commerce for travel retail, and before that, time at online service provider giant, AOL.

Brian is a big Munster rugby fan and spends most of his free time driving his 3 sons to various sporting activities.

Mark Scott

Managing Director, Social Care & Education

Mark has worked across IT and the public sector for over 20 years, specialising in IT strategy and leadership, business development, transformational change, service excellence, innovation and growth.

Mark has previously held senior roles with Cantium Business Solutions, PwC, Capita, Capgemini and Thales, and has a proven track-record of delivering business growth, service optimisation, customer excellence and high performing people strategies.

He is an avid golfer and Manchester United fan and is married to Joanne with two children, Jack and Darcy, and dogs Albert and Connie.

Julie O'Connor

Chief Product Officer

Julie has extensive health and care product management experience spanning 20 years with a proven track record in product/programme delivery from inception to user adoption. Before joining System C, Julie was Product Director at health and care software provider, Servelec, now part of The Access Group. The group acquired Servelec to create an integrated health and social care offering and Julie was responsible for driving the social care product strategy.

Clare Jones

Chief Marketing Officer

Spanning over 25 years, Clare has a long history in business to business marketing, developing strategies to build brands and drive growth for software solutions.

Clare has held previous roles that focus on business to business software marketing, holding accountability for demand generation, customer marketing and partner marketing.  Clare thrives on delivering results-driven integrated programmes with clear goals and outcomes, which has been recognised with several industry awards. Clare has successfully executed on brand strategy which includes the brand alignment of acquired businesses as part of the overall growth strategy.  Clare has focused on the public sector during this time, specifically Health & Care and Local Government, building up domain knowledge to help serve these markets.  A passionate marketeer, Clare recognises customer excellence as a critical part of the overall brand strategy.  

Clare lives with her husband and two teenage boys and an equally energetic Labrador cross, Reggie.  Clare enjoys live entertainment, whether that's music festivals, food festivals, and follows rugby internationals.. During the rugby season, Clare spends her time on the wet and cold side lines watching her sons, hoping for injury free matches. 

Tanya Kennedy

Chief Human Resources Officer

Tanya is a commercially savvy HR leader with a passion for building engaged, high performing organisations and HR teams to deliver employee growth and business results. Tanya brings significant global senior HR leadership to the team from a career spanning hardware, games development, SaaS and cyber technology, and life sciences.

Tanya has previously held HR leadership roles at Mimecast (an advanced email and collaboration security company) and CSL Seqirus (one of the world’s largest influenza vaccine companies). At System C, as Chief Human Resource Officer, Tanya will focus on delivering a well rounded HR strategy to enable business growth.

Tanya is a mum to two boys who are growing up way too fast! Gray is 19 and has just started at Bournemouth University studying Sports Management. Lyall is 14, a well rounded sports person, and is getting ready for his GCSE's next year. Bella, the Golden Doodle, joined the family nearly 3 years ago. Bella's energy and love for muddy puddles keeps Tanya busy at home.