Phil Codd is Managing Director & Chief Markets Officer (Northern Europe, India & South Africa) at SQS. He joined SQS in 2008 from SAP where he held the position of MD. He has also held senior roles for the Irish operations of major multinational software vendors; Oracle and Siebel. He has over 25 years’ experience in the IT industry, which has been dominated by sales into Financial Services, Commercial and Government Sectors. He studied Computer Studies in London and spent most of the eighties working for small software companies in the UK in a variety of roles from software development to business development before establishing Ingres in the Irish Market in 1990. In the following years he has covered all the major fields of interest in IT; data warehousing, business intelligence, and CRM & ERP while helping companies with their strategic goals & objectives in these areas. His interests include shared services, the subject of governance, risk & compliance and how small & medium companies can benefit from technology.