Jeff Dodd
Group CEO
Initially an Operations Director, Jeff Dodd became IT Director of the newly formed Towergate Underwriting Group in 1997. In 2001 he was invited to become IT & Facilities Director for another startup venture – The Folgate Partnership Limited, a company eventually employing 2,000 people and with a turnover of £750M.
In late 2004, Towergate and Folgate merged to become The Towergate Partnership and in April 2005 he left the business, spending a year working for an insurance industry think-tank, specialising in electronic trading and messaging standards.
Jeff has spent half his working life in financial services where he was involved in the acquisition & integration of over 90 companies, including projects involving hundreds of staff at a time. He has designed and implemented new IT architecture on many occasions and for organisations operating in many different markets.
Along with his brother Matthew, he started entrustIT in 2006. Concurrently he has held a number of non-executive board positions as well as providing consultancy and interim CIO services to financial services organisations and software houses.
Jeff is a qualified Prince2 Project Manager (Practitioner), a Microsoft Certified Professional and a Member of the British Computing Society. When not at work, Jeff can generally be found afloat where he is an RYA powerboat instructor. He is also a PADI rescue diver, a keen skier and a lapsed private pilot. Whatever time he has left, he likes to spend with family or doing pro-bono charity work.
