Meet the Team
Steve Brooks, Editor - Enterprise Times
Steve Brooks worked as an IT leader for more than 25 years. He has a wide experience within industry verticals including professional services, finance, manufacturing, recruitment and retail. Beginning his practitioner career as a communications developer he has worked in most roles in IT. He spent 17 years at Savills plc where he was appointed CIO. He left in 2012 to complete an MBA at Henley Business School. His dissertation was on the procurement of converged telecommunications solutions.
He now works as an analyst, editor, journalist, and consultant. He was sub-editor at Business Cloud and is now joint editor at Enterprise Times. His specialist areas are ERP, PSA, HCM, IT strategy, IT procurement business strategy, cloud computing and collaboration. He is senior analyst for ERP and PSA at Synonym Advisory. Steve has also been a guest speaker at several vendor events.
Ian Murphy, Editor - Enterprise Times
Ian has been a journalist, editor and analyst for over 30 years. While technology remains the core focus of Ian’s writings he also covers science fiction, children toys, field hockey and progressive rock. As an analyst, Ian is Senior Analyst at Synonym Advisory and has spoken at several conferences.
When not writing, Ian is playing, coaching and umpiring field hockey. He keeps goal for the Royal Navy Masters team, UK Armed Forces over-50’s and also plays at club level.
Charles Brett, Contributor - Enterprise Times
Charles Brett is a business/technology analyst, writer and consultant. His specialist areas include enterprise software, blockchain and enterprise mobility tech (including metering). Specific industry sectors of interest and experience include finance (especially systems supporting wholesale finance), telecommunications and energy.
Charles has spoken at multiple industry conferences, has written for numerous publications (including the London Times and the Financial Times). He was the General Chair of the bi-annual High Performance Systems Workshop, 2005.
His The CORRUPTION SERIES depicts use of various technologies and includes:
- The HolyPhone Confessional Crisis
- Corruption’s Price: A Spanish Deceit
- Virginity Despoiled
- Resurrection.
His technology books include:
- Making the Most of Mobility Vol I (eBook, 2012)
- Explaining iTunes, iPhones and iPads for Windows Users (eBook, 2011)
- 5 Axes of Business Application Integration (2004).
Charles graduated in Modern History at the University of Oxford. He has lived or worked in Italy, Abu Dhabi, South Africa, California and New York, Israel, Estonia and Cyprus. He is now based in Spain (Madrid).
Krys Murphy, Contributor - Enterprise Times
Krystyna has been an IT Trainer for over 25 years; she has trained Microsoft products since their 1st release, as well as other packages from other companies such as Oracle, Adobe, Lotus and Corel. She has trained a varied audience from University students to Managing Directors, in one to ones, small groups to over 50 in a lecture environment. Her experience of industries covers a wide spectrum from Utilities, MOD, Advertising, Medical, Police, Cosmetics, IT and Financial.
Roy Edwards, Contributor - Enterprise Times
Trained as a journalist and editor at Reuters, Roy is a qualified Prince 2 project/programme manager, consultant with more than 20 years experience of working for some iconic brands in digital, eCommerce and bespoke software. He has delivered both website and ecommerce strategy and projects and has a wide experience of different products and sectors. Roy has worked on projects including Jimmy Choo, Selfridges, Harvey Nichols, Savills, Tui, P&O Ferries and the NHS. During his career he has also lectured at London Metropolitan University and has an MA in journalism studies from the University of Westminster.
Neil Fawcett, Contributor - Enterprise Times
Cut him in half and the word technologist runs through Neil Fawcett’s core. Starting life as an engineer, specialising in the world of home computing, Neil the move to writing in 1985 and as the expression goes… never looked back. He was key to moving Computer Weekly away from its bias as a mainframe/minicomputer news title and propelled it into the exciting world of personal computing, breaking many an exclusive story. Following his tenure at CW he went on to work for various other publications, including participating in the UK launch of Information Week. [email protected]
