Andrew Hubbard , Executive Director

Andrew Hubbard is an entrepreneur whose career has been mostly in IT and Telecommunications fields.  He holds a BSc (Hon) degree from the University of Aston, Birmingham UK and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.  Andrew’s principal activities in recent years have been focused on developing effective Customer Relationship Management in the highly competitive Mobile Telecom market.  With a solid background in assuring regulatory compliance, Andrew founded xteam ltd in 1991 to enable testing of large IT systems for regulatory compliance and revenue assurance.  In his earlier career, Andrew has performed management roles in blue chip, global firms including Hewlett Packard, Compaq and Swiss Bank Corporation. He has also led complex IT projects for the UK Ministry of Defence and the Home Office.

Gareth Cadwallader, Executive Director

Gareth Cadwallader is Andrew’s joint partner in the Airas Intersoft investment.  He holds a Masters Degree from Harvard University and a BA (Hon) from Oxford University. In recent years, Gareth has lately been focused on bringing customer service and effective marketing in to the UK mobile operations of T-Mobile and O2.  He has led a team of IT consultants who successfully developed a radical new capability for the President and Managing Directors at the World Bank HQ in Washington DC.  Gareth has been Chief Operating Officer in a start up company delivering world class managed information security services and server based computing systems to blue chip clients.  Gareth’s early career included management and director roles in global IT businesses including Digital, Compaq, Cable & Wireless and Computacenter.

David Truman, Managing Director

David Truman, has joined the Airas Intersoft Board helping to develop our business and to assure that the company thrives and grows by delivering world class applications to global insurance markets.  He holds a BSc (Hon) degree from Loughborough University and is a qualified Chartered Accountant whose career has been in management and leadership roles in the European insurance industry.  Over the last 8 years from bases in Budapest and Warsaw, David has led the development of Life Assurance business for the KBC Bank & Insurance Group in Central & Eastern Europe. This has included CEO and top management roles in subsidiary companies exposed to both Insurance and Banking activities.  Most recently he has also been Board member responsible for Sales & Marketing for the Warta Group in Poland, one of the largest Insurance Groups in that country.  Prior to KBC Insurance, he has held senior management and consultancy roles in Irish Life Assurance and Ernst & Young Management Consultants based in the UK.

Nash Singh, Chief Technical Officer

“I’ve been with Airas Intersoft for about 12 years, with a background as a client-side developer for many Airas Intersoft clients.  I now lead the development for a major European Bank involved in Life Assurance leveraging my previous experience. I’ve also been able to transfer my skills from another industry by taking responsibility for iGas application roadmap, building on my entrepreneurial skills. The role is varied, I really enjoy the design side, Airas Intersoft’s solutions are cutting-edge and so the design is always an intellectual challenge. What’s new in this role is the client liaison, in understanding requirements and answering queries.”

“The move to a solutions provider has exposed me to a broader end-to-end development role than experienced client-side. I’m able to understand the wider client brief and my role in it, rather then working on specific and discrete projects. It’s real team work and the people I work with are great fun as well as being extremely good at what they do.”

Boris Sackville, Non Executive Director

Boris brings practical life insurance experience to Airas.  In his life insurance career, before setting up Airas Intersoft Limited, Boris was a successful salesman, head of agency management, Marketing Director and Managing Director.  After spending many years with Abbey Life and then Skandia Life, he set up a new life company, called Interlife, with Sid Paine.

As a former salesman, Boris is passionate about the necessity for life companies to provide good service, which can only be done cost effectively with technology that really supports business objectives.

Boris firmly believes that the unique combination of IT and life assurance experience at Airas Intersoft Limited has enabled it to avoid the misunderstanding of client requirements that bedevils so much of the software industry.

Sidney Paine, Actuarial Advisor to the Board

Sid provides a business benefit to clients that few other software providers to the life industry are able to offer: the services of a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries.

Sid has worked for leading life insurers in the UK including Pearl Assurance, Abbey Life and Skandia Life before joining with Boris Sackville to set up a new life company, Interlife.  His career has included both UK and overseas assignments.

He has been involved with the development of leading edge products for decades – including some of the first unit linked products in the UK – and has held positions as Finance Director, Investment Director and Appointed Actuary.

Sid was closely involved in the original development of AIRAS™.  Clients setting up life companies for the first time, or expanding their product range have found Sid’s services to be particularly useful.