Our Board Members

Paul Parrish

Board Member

Executive Profile

Paul Parrish is a highly experienced and versatile business leader, board member and advisor with more than three decades of experience in both owning and managing businesses across the technology, manufacturing and logistics spaces. He has served as an international board member and NED of large corporate organisations, FTSE-listed businesses and SMEs.

Since 2019 he has worked as a debt advisory intermediary, specialising in AI, Datacentre and general technology sectors — putting his commercial and financial knowledge to work helping a broad spectrum of clients with both asset finance and M&A transactions.

Paul is a qualified business mentor with the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) and a member of the Association of Business Mentors, and holds a Diploma in Strategic Business Direction from the Institute of Directors (IoD).

Sectors Of Expertise

IT Services & Managed Solutions — 20+ years (Managed Desktop, Cloud, Mobility, IoT)

Software as a Service (SaaS) — 12+ years

Artificial Intelligence — 7+ years (LLM training & inference hardware, Agentic AI software)

Datacentre — 30+ years (operations, land acquisition, build, refurbishment, power and infrastructure; Hyperscalers)

International BPO & Outsourcing — 11+ years (board-level oversight)

Technology Supply Chain & Logistics — pan-European lifecycle and spare-parts solutions

Commercial Finance, Debt Advisory & M&A — focused on AI, Datacentre and wider technology

Positions Held

Board Member — Churchill Partners (Private Equity); deal origination, execution, and post-acquisition portfolio strategy

Non-Executive Director & Board Member — QWE (Workflow Software / SaaS; led start-up and extraction from Indian parent)

Associate Director — Primary Business Finance (commercial finance and M&A funding for technology sectors)

Group CEO — Tellermate (£330M global turnover; UK, North America, Europe, Japan)

Managing Director, UK & Europe — The TVS Group (£130M; same-day courier, overnight distribution, warehousing and spare-parts logistics; 1,000+ staff)

CEO & Equity Partner — A&O IT Group (led major financial restructuring and international growth to £40M+, before exit)

Managing Director — Phoenix IT Group (FTSE-listed) (£120M business unit, 2,000+ employees; managed IT services, outsourcing, cloud, datacentre)

Managing Director — Fujitsu Technology Solutions UK & Ireland (£400M turnover; IT outsourcing, BPO, cloud, datacentre; 12-year tenure; international board)

Key Achievements

Scale & Growth — grew an IT Managed Services business from £40M to over £240M in annual turnover while maintaining £15M EBITDA

Scale & Growth — acquired and restructured a £10M IT Managed Services business, scaling to £40M+ turnover with class-leading £5M EBITDA

Debt Advisory — successfully arranged £140M in funding for businesses in the broader technology sector over seven years

Turnaround & Restructuring — led an £80M loss-making Technology Solutions business through a full recovery; grew to £120M turnover and £10M EBITDA

Qualified Business Mentor — Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM); member of the Association of Business Mentors

Diploma in Strategic Business Direction — Institute of Directors (IoD)