Our Leadership

Craig Adams

Managing Director, EMEA

Craig previously worked for a top 50 SaaS vendor and prior to that role he ran his own sales & marketing consultancy firm providing interim leadership services for North American SaaS vendors to incubate & scale their EMEA operations. Craig has worked in the software industry for companies such as HP, TITUS & OpenText.

Mark Anderson

Head of Business Delivery

Leading diverse teams and large complex programs of work, across software, infrastructure, DevOps, security and quality assurance, Mark is widely recognised as having a can-do attitude and is passionate about delivery across a multitude of technologies and platforms.  Mark is an excellent communicator and works successfully across all business units.  Mark has been responsible for delivering high transactional e-commerce solutions, incorporating leading edge UX across web, mobile, retail, B2B and B2C environments.  Mark has led many technology based mergers and acquisition (up to $750M) programs in the past, implemented optimised business processes, and delivered across multiple platform and data migrations.

Nick Broome

Chief Customer Success Officer

Nick’s varied experience across consulting and industry leaves him well positioned to advise clients not just on Risk Management theory but also what works in practice. 

As an industry, he believes we have only scratched the surface on this and still have a lot to learn. Outside work, most of Nick’s spare time revolves around his family. On summer weekends, he will normally be found on the side of a cricket pitch somewhere in the greater Sydney area, watching his son play or walking his dog.

Megan Connell

Head of Marketing

Megan has worked for companies in high growth and complex markets where she has led and built high performing teams. She embraces change and is passionate about addressing and solving customer problems.

Adel Fakhreddine

Head of Sales, APAC

Adel has more than 10 years’ experience selling and consulting into various industries.

His key area of focus besides Risk and Compliance is Business Research, Marketing and Technology.

Adel joined The Protecht team in 2018 and plays a key role in the company’s accelerated growth plans. When Adel is not talking to Risk and Compliance professionals you will find him in the gym or in the park trying to keep up with his children.

Sharon Fenton

Head of People and Culture

Sharon is responsible for attracting the right people to join us, maintaining our fantastic company culture, engaging and retaining our own talent. Sharon brings over 15 years of experience in human resources leadership, business partnership, recruitment, organisational development, employee relations, policy and procedure and coaching. Prior to Protecht Group, Sharon worked across different industries including FinTech, Technology & Networking, Telecommunications, Insurance and Education.

Ian Hadwen

Chief Revenue Officer

More recent roles have included general management and team leadership for large, complex service lines as well as discrete, specialised business units.

Ian’s product experience includes product strategy, design and launch. With a well developed customer-centric approach, this has significantly helped to deliver compelling customer value for sophisticated customer requirements. Ian has also been responsible for the end-to-end business management of a multi-million dollar  acquired company – delivering against required objectives.

Now leading Protecht's sales and account management teams globally, Ian places great emphasis on close customer contact and deep engagement to fully understand customer need.

Terence Lee

Vice President of Sales, North America

Terry's passion for helping organization's evolve their risk practices and demonstrate resilience is a perfect fit for the Protecht.ERM suite. He has spoken at conferences on risk and resilience topics for more than 12 years, and led sales, pre-sales, and inside sales globally for SaaS vendors. His extensive knowledge of the risk and compliance market, competitors, and buyer personas have enabled Protecht to rapidly build an NA customer base.

Gary Lynam

Director of Customer Success, EMEA

Gary is firmly of the belief organisations have a competitive advantage in achieving their strategic objectives when understanding the risk dynamics associated to business planning activities.

Gary has over 10 years’ experience consulting and providing advisory services to a wide range of clients both locally and overseas. He has a MSc. in Finance and Capital Markets.  

Prior to Protecht, Gary spent time with three global banks consulting on risk and strategic change. He started his career in Risk Advisory at KPMG.

Jason Phillips

Chief Financial Officer

Jason Phillips is the Chief Financial Officer at Protecht Group. He joins the business with a plethora of experience in leading strategic initiatives to meet aggressive profit and growth targets. Jason also led the Finance, Accounting, and M&A functions providing budgeting, investment prioritization, and ad hoc financial support across the business functions.

Damien Stevens

Chief Product & Marketing Officer

With extensive experience in B2B software, financial services and data and analytics, Damien has built and launched many widely used and loved products that solve real problems for large and small businesses.

Peter Walker

Chief Technology Officer, Chief Information Security Officer

The team also manages all design, development, documentation, support, testing and hosting operations for the business.

His many skills include Business Service Management (including ITIL and Six Sigma), System and Application Performance Management, Capacity Planning and, most recently, Risk Management disciplines.

Tim Woodforde

General Counsel

Tim was previously General Counsel and Company Secretary at a leading data & analytics technology company and before then had more than 20 years’ experience as a corporate and commercial lawyer and corporate advisor at leading professional service firms in Sydney and London.