About us
Our software provides an effective solution to enable you to exceed the requirements of RDR and also provides a more cost effective process (both in time saved and errors eliminated) for managing your clients’ investments.
The core solution – Fastrak – has been available since May 2012 and is rapidly gaining a reputation for delivering modern, easy-to-use and highly integrated applications that help clients’ wealth to be managed, reviewed and reported.
Our clear proposition is proving critical when providing a structured, compliant, consistent and cohesive value based service to your clients.
Senior Management Team
Rory St Johnston - Non Executive Chairman
Rory is Managing Director at McLaren Capital, a private client and corporate financial services company based in Godalming.
Prior to founding Sprint and McLaren Capital, Rory was Managing Director of Truestone Asset Management where, throughout his 15 year tenure he designed their strategic investment process and systems, built the foundation of the employee benefits division and managed many key client relationships. In the late 80s and early 90s he worked for LSD Software who specialised in providing portfolio management software to financial advisers and stockbrokers.
Combined with his technical knowledge and his entrepreneurial skills Rory provides a formidable talent for Sprint Enterprise Technology.
Robin Bevan - Chief Executive Officer
Prior to joining Sprint, Robin was a founding shareholder and Chief Executive of PayByPhone, a mobile payments company that started in 2004 and was sold to PayPoint plc in 2010. Robin stayed on with PayByPhone following the acquisition in the role of Chief Executive (Commercial).
Prior to PayByPhone, Robin started and was Chief Executive of Wisden Online, which, following the acquisition of Cricinfo in 2002, became one of the largest single sport websites with over 15 million customers worldwide. Wisden Cricinfo (as the merged entity was known) was subsequently sold to ESPN.
Robin’s more recent online experience followed fourteen years with John Swire & Sons in the Far East where Robin held a number of senior positions in Cathay Pacific Airways.
Nicholas D Morant – Non Executive Director
Nick founded Cormorant Ventures in 1998 to provide strategic long term advice to owners of private businesses on both ongoing operational development and strategic options, to both scale businesses and maximise exit value. Based in London, Cormorant advises a broad range of clients, and with particular focus on the media and technology sectors. Cormorant has a proven track record of raising capital for private companies, as well as advising them on corporate structures, acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures and realisations.
After serving as an officer in the British Army and Bristol University, he qualified as a barrister. Prior to establishing Cormorant he was an investment banker in both London and Asia, including Vice President and Head of Asian Equity Capital Markets for JP Morgan, Director and Head of Asia Pacific Technology, Media and Telecoms Advisory for Wheelock NatWest, and Managing Director, Investment Banking for Nikko Europe.
Charles Southey - Chief Technology Officer
He held the CIO role at security software specialists Sophos for five years, where he honed his knowledge of best practices in information security and – being responsible for Sophos’ own IT security – developed a healthy level of paranoia about data security matters. He has also held senior positions with top city law firms Allens & Overy and Baker McKenzie, and global consumer products giant Procter & Gamble.
charles.southey@sprintenterprise.co.uk | 07810 794135
Gary Shepherd - Director, Business Development
Gary started out as an IFA in the early 90’s but has been providing software solutions to IFAs for the last 18 years. Gary has extensive experience of both the Advisory and discretionary sectors of the industry and intimately understands the workings of an adviser’s office and how software solutions are instrumental in enabling business’s to implement consistent processes.
Gary recently relocated his family down to the West Country, Gary is married with 2 grown up children, (who will not leave home!), he enjoys gardening and golf.gary.shepherd@sprintenterprise.co.uk | 07748 158699