Meet the Team

Executive Board

Paul Cowham

Chairman
As co-founder of Sota in 1989, Paul is a veteran entrepreneur of the IT managed services industry. After 25 years at the helm of Sota as Managing Director, he moved into an Executive Chairman role in 2015. With over three decades of executive management experience, Paul is the chief strategist and architect behind Sota’s organic and acquisition growth strategies, taking the business on the challenging journey from start-up to a thriving medium-sized enterprise.

Ben Smoker

Chief Executive Officer
Ben leads the company’s strategic direction, operational execution, and long-term growth. A degree graduate and chartered accountant with 20 years of experience in finance roles across various industries, Ben is a commercially astute and influential leader with a clear specialism in technology and outsourcing. Ben believes the continued growth of the business will be primarily driven by the company’s strategic investment in people, as Sota focuses on enhancing its first-class support, infrastructure, and consultancy functions to stay ahead of industry demands and deliver sustainable growth.

Piers Roberts

Chief Revenue Officer
With over 18 years of experience in sales and leadership, Piers leads Sota’s Sales and Marketing strategy, driving sustainable growth, market expansion, and long-term commercial success. Piers combines commercial acumen with hands-on technical expertise, to deliver measurable improvements to our customers environments and overall experience. Piers believes Sota’s continued success will be driven by its ability to align technical excellence with a strong customer-first approach, ensuring Sota remains agile, innovative, and competitive in a fast-evolving digital landscape.

Senior Leadership Team

James Whitley

Head of Solutions

Gavin Anderson

Director of Support & Customer Experience

Katie Wisniewski

Head of People

Daniel Yeates

Director of Technology

Darren Latter

Head of Finance

During the COVID-19 lockdown, RSBC migrated to SotaCloud, and we had no issues. Sota's engineers are friendly and helpful, and this reinforces my confidence in our partnership. Congratulations to a great team.

Royal Society for Blind Children

Charity, Not for Profit

Having Sota’s well-qualified and experienced full time team of IT professionals has resulted in a seamless migration to SotaCloud. Our systems are now elegant and integrated, whilst being highly resilient, available, compliant and secure.

Olympic Glass

Manufacturing & Engineering

RBLI has benefitted from Sota’s services, which have significantly increased speed, and improved productivity for our 260 staff users. The success of the initial connectivity project lead to the implementation of a full business continuity solution.

Royal British Legion Industries

Charity, Not for Profit

Our relationship is founded on trust, and a shared commitment to IT excellence. We have gone from a start-up business to a global entity, and as our needs have changed, Sota has adapted with us.

Ascot Group

Financial Services

Reliable, knowledgeable and prompt to respond, we’ve created a great working relationship with Sota from our Account Manager to the service desk team, they work with us to ensure our IT systems work as they should while remaining secure.

Abbott Construction

Construction

Sota’s highly qualified and experienced infrastructure consultants and engineers carried out a resilient, high availability cloud solution seamlessly.

Waterco Europe

Manufacturing, Engineering

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