Steve Kaye CDir FIoD

Current

Chief Executive Officer at Cloud Technology Solutions
Business Advisor at Salford Software

Past

Business Advisor/CEO at Blue Strategies
Contract Sales and Marketing Manager at Willow Starcom
Commercial Director at Portal Partnership

CEO at Elyzium
Sales Manager at Silicon Graphics
Sales Manager at Apollo

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Education

Institute of Directors
Institute of Directors
Burnley Grammar School

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Industry

Computer Software

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Steve Kaye CDir FIoD’s Summary

IoD Chartered Director with 30 years experience in the IT market place. Looking to establish a significant presence in the cloud with our partners, Google.

Steve Kaye CDir FIoD’s Specialties:

Groupwise/Lotus/Exchange/Hosted Services email and calendaring migration to Google Apps. with integrated Identity Management

Steve Kaye CDir FIoD’s Experience

Chief Executive Officer

Cloud Technology Solutions

(Computer Software industry)

July 2009 — Present (7 months)

New Google Apps partner focussed on email and data migration and identity management
Business Advisor

Salford Software

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2009 — Present (7 months)

Board Advisor to SSL
Business Advisor/CEO

Blue Strategies

(Management Consulting industry)

August 2007 — July 2009 (2 years )

Advisors in Company Direction and Strategy particularly to the IT Industry specialising in Board Matters, Board Construction and Constitution.
Contract Sales and Marketing Manager

Willow Starcom

(Management Consulting industry)

2008 — 2008 (less than a year)

Brought in as a consultant to refresh the sales force and instill new processes and techniques whilst growing the revenue number and help move the company in to more complex and profitable business.
Commercial Director

Portal Partnership

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

June 2006 — August 2007 (1 year 3 months)

Responsible for all aspects of Sales, Marketing and major partner relationships
CEO

Elyzium

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 1998 — June 2006 (8 years 3 months)

CEO and Founder of one of IBM Tivoli's most successful Business Partners
Sales Manager

Silicon Graphics

(Public Company; SGI; Computer Hardware industry)

1993 — 1998 (5 years )

The position was twofold namely looking after a geography and its people across all markets which included the north, midlands, Scotland and Ireland and also to run a vertical which was engineering. SGi was one of the worlds great companies to work for.
Sales Manager

Apollo

(Computer Software industry)

1984 — 1989 (5 years )

Having started for Apollo as a Pre Sales Engineer, my branch manager thought I had some sales capability so he put me through various psychological and psychometric tests and I ran as a sales exec. I was promoted to branch manager in a difficult year that saw us being acquired by HP. Nonetheless it was a few good years of fun and I am grateful to them for exposing me to the sales aand sales methodologies.

Steve Kaye CDir FIoD’s Education

Institute of Directors

C Dir , Company Direction , 2006 — 2007

Awarded chartered status by the IoD.
Now a Fellow of the Institute of Directors
Institute of Directors

Diploma , Company Direction , 2005 — 2007
Burnley Grammar School

1965 — 1970

Additional Information

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Steve Kaye CDir FIoD’s Interests:

Strategy Sales Methodologies Mind Mapping Football Long distance fell walking The IT Industry

Steve Kaye CDir FIoD’s Groups:

LEA Governor
Institute of Directors

Google Lover
SGI Global Technology Network
IT TIGERS
The Chairman's Network
Chartered Director Network
LinkedNW
Boards For Good
Google Enterprise Community
Cloud Computing
Linked 2 Leadership
Sales/Marketing VP's & Directors - Software & Technology
SaaSBlogs - Software as a Service Group
MediaCityUK BBC North Salford Quays Peels MediaCityUK BBC ITV QVC University of Salford NWDA BOVIS
Google Apps
IBM Business Partners
Google APPS users
Ex-SGI
Directors and Chief Executives
NED / NXD - Non Executive Directors - Global
Institute of Directors - Members Only
IBM Tivoli
NUB! Northwest UK Business Group
The Cloudsters
Burnley FC
Leanomics
SlideRocket
Board Member Services
The Northern Mafia
Directors - North West England
Greater Manchester Chamber
infoBOOM! Must-know people, ideas and opinions for mid-sized business
Google Apps Solution Providers
FootballLinked
UK Sales Directors Forum
Google Wave Interest Group
SalesSense User Group
The 3 Miles an Hour Club
Visionaries In Technology (VIT)
Lancashire Business View