Roger Thorpe, Chairman

I founded the company in 1978, initially as my own management consultancy firm. It changed its name to Colt Computers Ltd in 1982 and in 1985 formed CCE (CC Engineering Ltd). Initially CCE was established to support the growing numbers of Colt installations and its chain of partners. We rapidly grew into a full third party I.T. support company with a nationwide coverage. 

I have great personal pride in the fact that my Son Giles is now heading the company; the future looks brighter with each year of his stewardship, his forward thinking has enabled us, whilst preserving our core servicing business, to become a significant player in the outsourcing sector. 

The decision to engage in the IP-CENTRIX arena which encompasses such functions as Business Continuity, Hosted Data Centres and Hosted Voice Applications coupled with our partnerships with VIATEL and other major network providers has further enhanced our technical capabilities and will contribute to our long term growth and stability.

Giles Thorpe, Managing Director

Giles serves as Managing Director of CCE and oversees operations and strategic direction. Giles began his career at HP and ICL before moving to EDS as an Operations Analyst. He then moved to GE Information Systems before setting up an IBM and Novell consultancy business in London. Giles joined CCE in 1992 heading up the Account Management and Customer Services teams, he then progressed into Sales Management before being made Managing Director in 2001. 

Peter Fincham, Sales Director
Peter serves as Sales Director of CCE from a sales position within the National Westminster Bank where he received his initial training. Peter has been a member of the CCE team for over 17 years working in a variety of roles until taking on the position of Sales Director. He now leads a strong internal and external sales team that are responsible for driving CCE forward.

Ian Gough, Operations Director
Ian serves as Operations Director of CCE and oversees the day to day operations of the company. Prior to joining CCE, Ian’s career included working with Sinclair, DHL Africa, DHL UK, Worldtalk, Sequent and IBM in various Hardware Quality Assurance, logistic and technical management positions. Ian’s experience includes involvement with large scale disaster recovery projects, 500+ user call centres, application development and managing Porting/Proof of Concept centres across EMEA. Since joining CCE at the beginning of 2003 Ian has spearheaded our new CRM system, which ensures that our Service Level Agreements as well as our medium and long term operational strategic goals are met in full .

Chris McAuley, Director of IP & Managed Services
Chris serves as CCE Director of IP Services and is responsible for all voice and IP services alongside reviewing potential new technologies and services. Chris has over 20 years experience in the IT Solutions industry, most recently completing a project with Viatel helping launch their VOIP services in the UK. Previously, he spent 2 years as Sales Director of Inclarity, one of the early pioneers of hosted VOIP solutions in the UK establishing them as an early leading player in hosted VOIP solutions. In the 1990's Chris spent a number of years as a founder and COO of Pervasic - one of the first companies offering GSM mobile data solutions.