United Kingdom

Steve Hatherly

Managing Director UK

Steve joined Computacenter in a sales role in 2003. He was promoted to Client Director in 2007 where he focussed on developing Computacenter’s client base in telecommunications, technology, media, and the retail and gaming industries. Steve has progressed through the organisation and brings more than 20 years of IT Sales to his current role as Country Unit Director for the UK, which he took on in 2023.

Jonathan Stern​

Director, Public Sector

Jonathan graduated with a degree in History from the University of London in 1995.  With over 23 years in IT, throughout his career, he has focused almost exclusively on public sector sales, joining Computacenter in 2002 as an Account Manager for the Defence sector.   Since then, Jonathan has held a variety of sales and sales leadership roles, leading high performing teams to win major new customers across the public sector, while developing relevant sub-vertical strategies and propositions.   In 2020, he was promoted to Public Sector Director, with the key objective of maintaining and growing a sustainable solutions and services business of significant scale, leading a team of Client Directors and Account Managers to help our customers realise service and cost benefits by leveraging Computacenter’s core capabilities.

Neil Eke

Director, Solutions

Neil joined Computacenter as the Director of Datacenter, Storage & Cloud in 2012, bringing with him more than 25 years’ of industry experience. He ran Financial Services from 2017, before taking up his current role, leading Solutions in the UK, in 2022.

Robert Burns

Director, Managed Services Sales

Robert leads our Strategic Pursuit Sales teams, and is accountable for securing new business with a focus on Computacenter UK and International clients headquartered in the UK. Formerly a Sales Specialist, he has an exceptional record in winning large complex contracted out source services, including names such as Post Office, HSBC and Michelin. Robert has worked for Computacenter for 20 years, holding a variety of roles including running our Service Desk operations in Milton Keynes for 5 years. His team lead sales campaigns across all our sectors for both new name and renewal opportunities, ensuring we clearly articulate our value in helping our clients achieve their business goals, and exploiting the value of their investment in IT. These campaigns demonstrate our credibility and experience of Enabling Users across all our market propositions and leveraging our expertise across Source and Deploy, Consult and Change and Manage and Transform capabilities.

Chris Stratford

Director, Campaigns

Chris joined Computacenter through our graduate scheme in 1999 and has held a number of varied sales roles in over 20 years with the company. Since 2012 he worked as a Client Director, leading the relationship with some of our largest customers. In 2021 Chris became Sector Director for Industry, running a team of Client Directors and Account Managers who help our clients within core markets such as Manufacturing, Oil & Gas and Pharmaceuticals. He took on his current role, leading Campaigns, in early 2022.

Claire Goli

Director, Enterprise & Industry

With over 27 years in the IT Industry, Claire is delighted to run the Enterprise Sector for Computacenter. Since graduating in 1991, Claire started her working career in the Media Industry and in 1994 moved to Computacenter where she has developed her career in I.T sales, working as an Account Manager and Client Director across a number of verticals. In 2021 Claire took over the responsibility of Sector Director for Enterprise leading a team of Client Directors and Account Managers whom support our customers across a board range of markets including Utilities and Travel, Transport and Logistics.

Clare Parry-Jones

UK Sustainability Lead & Business Enablement Director

Since January 2022 in addition to her responsibilities as the UK Sustainability Lead, Clare now runs the Business Enablement team in the UK, ensuring that her and her team continue to support Computacenter UK in its pursuit of delighting customers. 

Clare joined Computacenter in 2008 and now has 30+ years of working in the IT industry, 15 of those with Computacenter. In addition to working in the UK business, Clare has worked for Computacenter USA and at Group level in a number of sales and supporting roles. 

Tim Bruce

Director, Financial Services

Since February 2022, Tim has led the Financial Services & Insurance Sector. He will use his insight and experience to support our people as they continue to deliver value to existing and future customers.

Tim joined Computacenter in 2012 and has over 20 years’ experience enabling Financial Services and Insurance organisations to grow. Over the last ten years (six as Client Director) he has been helping one of Computacenter’s largest customers, developing strong CXO level relationships between our organisations.

Jon Bunyard

Commercial Finance

Jon has worked for over 30 years in the UK & European IT channel, having held senior leadership roles in Sales, Commercial Management & Finance functions. He worked in the distribution business for both CCD (Computacenter Distribution) and Ingram Micro for 25 years. Jon re-joined Computacenter as a Commercial Finance Business Partner in 2014 to help grow the technology sourcing (product resale) business across Europe. Jon is now aligned to the day to day support of the UK sales force.