Board of Directors
Nic Birtles
Chairman and CEO
Nicholas (Nic) Birtles has been Chairman of Konetic since mid 2005 and has served as a Non-Executive Director of Konetic since 2003.
Originally from England, Nic has recently spent over nine years living and working in California’s Silicon Valley, where he held roles such as Chief Executive of Constellar (a leading Enterprise Application Integration EAI software vendor) and Executive Vice President of World-wide Operations for Gupta Corporation.
Prior to moving to Silicon Valley, Nic was Senior Vice President of Europe for Gupta & also Senior Vice President of Europe for Ingres Corporation (a leading Relational Database Vendor) while it grew from zero revenues to over $100 Mil pa in less than 5 years. Nic started his IT career over 40 years ago initially as a Programmer, then moved in Sales, Marketing & Management.
Nic was also on the Executive Council of the CSSA (the UK IT Industry Association now called Intellect) for several years, where he chaired their Single European Market Committee. He is currently the Chairman of the Entrepreneurship Committee for the Information Technologists Livery Company.
Currently Nic is also an Angel Investor & Chairman in several early stage Software Companies. Nic has also written many published articles on IT Sales & Marketing Strategies plus co-authored a book, on the subject of motivation for business success, called "Ever Onward".