Executive Team

Gary McIlraith - CEO

Gary McIlraith joined Group NBT as Chief Executive in January 2012. Prior to this he was Managing Director of Digital Channels, International and Group Strategy for Ladbrokes plc.

Previously he was a Managing Director with AlixPartners, responsible for the firm’s European TMT practice; Customer Operations Director and an executive board member of BSkyB; a Partner with KMPG where he led the firm’s UK Hi-Tech practice; and an Associate Partner with Accenture where he led major projects in the TMT sector.

Raj Nagevadia - Finance Director

Raj Nagevadia joined Group NBT as Financial Controller in October 2003 and assumed the role of Finance Director in February 2004. Prior to this he was Financial Controller at Tempo plc, a national electrical retailer, has held various roles in an offshore oil and gas construction business and worked at a leading firm of accountants.

Colin Bell - Managing Director Business Services Division

Colin Bell joined Group NBT in September 2006 as Group Sales and Marketing Director. Colin has spent almost thirty years in Information Technology, leading sales and marketing teams in high growth environments both in the UK and overseas. Since 1999, he operated within Internet-related businesses, most recently as EMEA Sales Director at Rackspace Ltd.

Colin now has overall responsibility for Group NBT's Business Services division comprising of NetBenefit Managed Hosting, the Group's Online businesses which include Easily.co.uk and Speednames.com and Ascio which provides domain names services through over 300 different partners.

Gerry Lawrence - Chief Technical Officer

Gerry Lawrence joined GroupNBT in February 2007 and was appointed Chief Technical Officer in July 2007. Gerry is responsible for the management of Group NBT's technical operations and development. He previously lead technical teams in several high growth and high profile UK and international Internet businesses. His roles have included Head of Network Services at Demon Internet and Director of Global Hosting at Tiscali.

David Gandy - Managing Director Corporate Brand Management

David Gandy joined Group NBT in September 2007 as CEO of Ascio (now known as Group NBT A/S). Prior to this he spent the last 25 years within the Financial Services sector as Global Managing Director, Business Development for Thomson Financial, Managing Director for NASDAQ Europe, Managing Director at Reuters Ltd and EVP of SKF Sweden AB.

He has lived and worked in Sweden, Holland, France, Germany, Japan and Scotland.

He holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Business Studies.