Executive Board

Paul Cowham

Executive 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 the 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 dynamic and thriving medium-sized enterprise.

Andrew Symons

Managing Director
With over 27 years at Sota, Andrew has been central to the continued development and growth of Sota, expanding the business and the many managed services delivered. With a passion for technology and its positive impact on business, Andrew has focused on business operations to deliver customers with cost effective best of breed solutions with excellent customer service delivery. Andrew believes that continued innovation is crucial for technical excellence and ensures Sota’s strategy and overarching vision is aligned to the long-term goals and company ethos.

Ben Smoker

Finance Director
Ben is responsible for all financial affairs of the company as well as being department head for both human resources and compliance. 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 largely attributed to the company’s strategic investment in people as Sota looks to develop and grow its first class support, infrastructure and consultancy functions to respond to the ever changing technology landscape.

Senior Leadership Team

Eliot Wood

Technical Operations Manager

Gavin Anderson

Senior Service Delivery Manager

Piers Roberts

Head of Sales & Marketing

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

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

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

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

Waterco Europe

Manufacturing, Engineering

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

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