As Supplies and Transactional Print Channel Sales Director at HP Inc, Anna is responsible for the sales of supplies and transactional print through reseller partners across the UK and Ireland. Anna has been in her supplies role for 7 years and last year added transactional print to her portfolio.

Over her 30 year career at HP, Anna has held a number of leadership roles spanning UK&I and EMEA regions and across a variety of functions, including distribution, reseller and retail channel as well as category and business development. She has through her career managed, in various capacities, all key sectors of HP’s business, including, print, supplies, PC, projector and storage products.

Some notable roles earlier in her career include;

- Storage and networking Channel Sales Director, W Europe

- Storage Wholesale Manager. EMEA

Anna began her career with HP in 1989 as an industrial placement student and then rejoined in 1991 as a graduate after completing her bachelor’s degree in Marketing and Engineering. Anna is a keen supporter of HP’s intern and graduate program, having started her own career in a similar manner Based near London in Oxfordshire, Anna’s time outside of the office is spent with her husband and four daughters.

With a degree in Business Information Technology and over 25 years in the IT Industry Clare is now UK Business Enablement Director & Sustainability Lead for Computacenter. Clare’s career started at Lotus Technologies in technical support progressing through systems engineering into account management. In 1995 she moved to Compaq as an Account Manager and during her tenure was, Corporate Sales Director and Solutions Sales Director before moving into the Integration Office when HP acquired Compaq as the UK Integration Lead before moving in 2003 to be the MD UK&I for Stratus Technologies. Clare joined Computacenter in 2007 as an Account Manager allowing more time to be with her then young family. During her time at Computacenter, Clare has worked in the UK as an Account Manager, Client Director, Business Enablement Director (both UK and Group) and until more recently was Sector Director Enterprise, having also spent 2 years (2008-2010) in the USA for Computacenter. More recently she has moved to a role that is supporting the Computacenter ESG strategy and co-ordinating across the Group the various subject matter experts that are accountable for delivering against this in addition to being the focal point for Customer, Vendor and employee conversations.

Colin spent more than 20 years working in the technology channel, and was formerly Group Head of Sustainability at Dimension Data, now NTT. He is now managing director at TBL Services and is also the founder of Support the Goals - an initiative to raise awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals by engaging suppliers. Colin is passionate about the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the vital role of businesses to help achieve the goals. He’s a straight-talking Lancastrian who prides himself on his ability to keep things simple and honest – this can get him into trouble!

Dave Stevinson is the owner and CEO of QBS Software and the associated companies in the QBS Technology Group. QBS was the first UK distributor to be independently verified and certified as net carbon neutral. QBS is working towards B Corporation status. QBS operates Europe’s largest software delivery platform representing 9800 enterprise software publishers sold via 5700 reseller partners into 200,000 enterprises across Europe. QBS has offices in London, Paris, Berlin, Munich, Vilnius, Cork and is rolling out a European expansion programme. QBS is scaling quickly and has been formally recognised by London Stock Exchange, Bloomberg, D&B and several other research firms for their technology platform and rapid growth. QBS has revenues approaching USD200million, 160 colleagues and 7 offices in Europe. Stevinson has spent 27 years in the channel starting out working at a small manufacturer of computer monitors, a couple of distributors, then representing a data analytics software publisher before acquiring QBS in 2018. He holds a BSc from Lancaster University, an MBA from Manchester Business School, and is currently enrolled on the OPM course at Harvard Business School. He is a keen cricket, rackets and real tennis player.

Jenny has worked in the IT channel for almost seven years and started at Highgate IT Solutions in September 2022. Over the last six months, as Sustainability Lead, she has developed Highgate’s CSR strategy and as a result the reseller announced their Carbon Neutral Plus status in February 2022.

Orla joined Microsoft in March 2021 to lead the commercial partner organisation. She joined from Microsoft partner Accenture where, over the past decade, she had been at the forefront of building its software as a service business through her leadership roles of the Cloud First Applications business and most recently, leading the Salesforce Business for the UK and Ireland.

Orla has spent over 25 years in the technology consulting sector and is a passionate believer in ecosystem partnerships and believes those companies that will thrive in our tech sector will be those that partner most effectively, shaping unique and differentiated propositions for the benefit of their clients.

Having been the Diversity and Inclusion Representative for Europe at the Accenture Technology business, Orla is keen to keep driving a more inclusive workplace where diversity can thrive.

Born and raised in Ireland, Orla has made London her home for the past 20 years with her family. She loves keeping fit outdoors, running, hiking and cycling and focusing on the wellbeing of family, friends and employees.

After a brief stint at Apple in his early twenties, Roger founded Jigsaw24 aged 27 in 1992 and has served as CEO ever since. In that time Jigsaw24 has developed from a start-up telesales operation to the 300 employee fully-fledged managed service provider organisation it is today. Roger is a passionate advocate of environmental and sustainability initiatives and never tires of banging on about this on his Linkedin account like a scratched record. Jigsaw24 is the only MSP to hold the accreditations of Apple Authorised Enterprise Reseller, Apple Premium Service Provider and Apple Authorised Education Specialist with nationwide reach and industry leading edge expertise in media solutions and all things Apple.

Sarah is a senior channel executive with nearly 20 years of experience inside leading vendors and distributors. Establishing a newly formed Apple sales team at Computer 2000, Sarah has managed complex business units from devices to datacentre through commercial sales teams for Magirus and Azlan. Sarah has led Enterprise Storage & Networking teams at Avnet and created a brand new inside sales team at Lenovo addressing the challenge of volume partner relationships. Sarah joined Google in 2018 as Head of OS Chrome Commercial Channels in UK&I, with responsibilities across distribution, OEMs and partner resellers to support customers in Enterprise and Education. Sarah lives in Hampshire and is blessed with a beautiful daughter, a fabulous dog and fiancee.

Steve is the founder of the ADISA which is a Product and Service Certification company based in the UK.

The ADISA Asset Recovery Standard is a risk-based certification for companies offering data sanitization and asset recovery services. It is referenced by the UK National Cyber Security Centre and formally recognized by DIPCOG which is a GCHQ and MoD committee.

In 2012 Steve worked with the ICO and wrote much of the official guidance notes which were released to help businesses comply with data protection legislation in this area. Steve is also the author of the National Computer Centre (NCC)’s guidance notes on how to manage risk when disposing of assets.

Steve has also worked with BSI on the development of a publicly available specification (PAS) 7010. This was for the destruction of digital media but was withdrawn prior to publication.

In 2019-2021, Steve worked with the ICO to achieve formal approval of Asset Recovery Standard 8.0 which was one of the first Standards to be recognized under Article 42 of the UK GDPR as a Certification Scheme. This ensures that companies who are certified against this Standard are complying with the UK GDPR in their service provision.

Steve is currently working with the UK Accreditation Service (UKAS) to achieve accreditation for the ADISA audit process with the award expected by July 2022.

Trevor Evans has a richly diverse and highly accomplished career within the global IT community, across three decades. Having held domestic and overseas director-level roles at both HP and Apple, he joined Consenna as Managing Director in 2019 and has since overseen the team’s phenomenal growth.

A specialist in change management, grasping emerging opportunities and innovation-led growth, Trevor has first-hand experience of the increasingly competitive IT market having not only worked at the centre of it, but also alongside the key channel partners and people within it