Executive Team
Patrick Chatee
Patrick has been in the software testing and quality assurance industry for 20 years. Specialising in automation and testing processes and procedures Patrick has well and truly earned his stripes. Providing service to over 60 blue chip companies Patrick is recognised as an industry innovator. His past successes include co-founding and co-running Specialist Testing Solutions which was sold to Mission Testing in 2001 who retained him in the capacity of Consultancy Sales Director. Since then Patrick has actively grown other Software Testing Consultancies including DeRisk IT, QA Testing and latterly SQS-UK where he held the position of Business Unit Director whilst delivering consultancy daily throughout his three year residency.
Actively involved in leading edge QA and Management consulting Patrick heads up the Business Development division of SQA Consulting. Patrick owns the marketing, sales and partner development capability within SQA Consulting whilst supporting the Consultancy Delivery division with regard to solution shaping and development. His combined Consulting and Sales Experience provide our organisation and clients with a hybrid capable of understanding their requirements and ensuring the successful delivery of cost effective quality solutions.
Alan Cooper
Alan is a thoroughbred testing specialist having spent 18 years in the software testing and quality assurance industry predominantly servicing blue chip organisations worldwide within the financial vertical market. Alan is used to running multi million pounds Pan European testing programmes having historically built and headed the Global Testing Services capability for Barclays Retail & Commercial Banking Divisions, Alan is an extremely well sought after individual in both the testing and financial services markets. Alan has consistently developed and refined new delivery methods that have saved companies millions of pounds.
Capitalising on his delivery experience Alan heads the Consultancy Delivery division within SQA Consulting where he develops, shapes and deploys our consulting solutions. Alan still actively consults enhancing our clients quality and deployment capabilities.
Jason Storey
Jason has worked on multiple corporate initiatives, developing start up and medium sized organisations into industry leaders within their vertical markets. Jason is a proven processes and procedure specialist deploying solutions to underpin our companies accelerated growth. Jason’s expertise has enabled us to expand our geographic footprint both in the UK and overseas. His proficiency enables us to seamlessly co-ordinate our ever expanding consulting capability whist ensuring that as an organisation we are always embracing the latest technology and utilising it to our advantage.
Jason is our Sanctions Business Unit Director where he oversees the successful delivery of our effective quality screening solutions.
Gary Pruce
A proven Senior IT Executive with extensive experience in blue-chip complex capital markets and multinational environments. Successfully operating at Board level with wide-ranging knowledge encompassing project and programme management, systems and infrastructure development, quality testing, service delivery and management reporting. Gary has spent the last 30 years establishing an impeccable track record in developing, driving and managing change programmes at highest level in organisations experiencing substantial change. Gary’s historic positions over the last 20 years have all been at Programme Director level. He has brought the technology of organisations within the Media, Financial Services and Utilities vertical markets into the 21st century whilst managing complex world wide programmes and budgets in excess of 20 million pounds.
Gary runs our Programme and Project Management division ensuring our consultants are leading edge whether they are delivering directly to our clients or via third party systems integrators.
Jeremy Round
Jeremy has been developing IT solutions for over 20 years. Initially creating mainframe systems for ICL, this is where he gained an in-depth understanding of computer hardware, firmware, and software. Starting with mainframes then massively parallel UNIX systems and finally Object request Brokers. Jeremy excelled in an ivory tower environment, working with Universities and R&D labs from database vendors such as Oracle.
Sensing that there was more outside the tower, Jeremy moved out into the world to get more connected with how computers products were used in business. Changing to IBM Jeremy learn how to apply his knowledge of product development to specific customers, leading major projects for prestigious customers.
Jeremy left IBM to pursue an independent career for 12 years before joining SQA. During this time Jeremy has worked all over the UK as well as Belgium, Germany, France, Ireland, Russia, and Indonesia. Since 2005 Jeremy has specialized in Financial Sanctions Screening, which he lives and breathes with a passion.
Jeremy is a Physics Graduate, a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, a Chartered Engineer, and a registered Inventor with the patent office.