Our board

Craig Adams has been with Protecht since 2020 as the Managing Director for EMEA to support the development of the company in this region. Craig has over 15 years’ leadership experience working with a number of SaaS vendors helping them scale and grow their EMEA business.

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 Diligent, HP and TITUS.

Mark Anderson is responsible for delivering our critical strategic initiatives across the entire Protecht Group. Mark places great emphasis on prioritisation, dependencies, risks and communication. Mark has over 25 years’ experience as an IT and Project Management professional.

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. He 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 is an experienced risk management specialist having spent over 25 years in the profession including senior roles at KPMG, Macquarie, Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Nick is passionate about the opportunities to improve our understanding of the drivers of risks to help manage them better.

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 leads the marketing team and is responsible for brand, growth, and the go-to-market programs. She is a strategic B2B marketing professional with 25 years' experience across a range of industries including software, technology, medical devices, and services 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.

Sharon Fenton is responsible for leading Protecht's People and Culture function and assisting our people to grow with our business.

Sharon is responsible for attracting the right people to join us, maintaining our fantastic company culture, engaging and retaining our own talent. Sharon has extensive experience in human resources leadership, business partnership, recruitment, organisational development, employee relations, policy and procedure and coaching.

Prior to Protecht, Sharon worked across different industries including fintech, technology and networking, telecommunications, insurance and education.

Ian Hadwen is an experienced sales and product management professional having worked in credit/data services, financial services and telecommunication industries. Ian’s prior roles have included very successful individual business development and account relationship functions.

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 is Protecht's Vice President, North America. Terry joined Protecht in 2022 to facilitate our growth in North America, bringing extensive experience in governance, risk, compliance, and incident management. Terry has led sales, product, and marketing teams at risk and compliance software vendors, and is a recognized expert in ERM, vendor risk, business continuity, regulatory change management, and resilience.

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.

Jason Phillips is the Chief Financial Officer at Protecht. He has a plethora of experience in leading strategic initiatives to meet aggressive profit and growth targets.

Jason also leads the Finance, Accounting, and M&A functions providing budgeting, investment prioritization, and ad-hoc financial support across the business functions.

Damien Stevens leads our Product & Marketing team and is responsible for Protecht’s global product vision, design and go to market strategy. He graduated from the University of Technology, Sydney with a degree in Marketing & Finance.

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 has more than 20 years of experience in software development; including design and architecture, security, testing, and consulting. Peter has a CISSP certification and is responsible for driving the development of Protecht's risk management software.

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

Peter's many skills include Business Service Management (including ITIL and Six Sigma), System and Application Performance Management, Capacity Planning and, most recently, risk management.

Tim Woodforde joined Protecht as General Counsel and Company Secretary in 2021 and is responsible for the legal, compliance and company secretarial functions of Protecht.

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.