Toople
TOOP:LN
Overview
Company Profile
Toople.com deliver brilliant business broadband solutions, with robust and reliable packages that’ll enhance your company. Our vision is based on trust and transparency, with no hidden fees to catch your business out.
We believe broadband should be ticking away in the background, so your business can focus on serving your customers and generating new business; not chasing and hoping your broadband works. If you’re fed up of paying over the odds, feel let down by customer service, or suffer intermittent loss of connectivity, Toople.com is the answer.
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Classification
Financials
Corporate
Board of Directors
Richard John Horsman
Non-Executive Chairman
Richard was senior independent non-executive director of Plethora Solutions Holdings plc between early 2011 and mid-2013 and previously CEO of Cybit Holdings plc, both admitted to trading on the AIM market. During his tenure at Cybit the company grew, from inception, to revenues of £25 million and went through multiple acquisitions. In January 2010, Cybit was acquired in a deal with a US based private equity firm, which returned £24 million to shareholders at over a 100% premium to the prevailing market price. Prior to this he held several senior roles in the IT industry including with Global Telematics plc and The Baan Company. Most recently (from 2011 to the end of 2014) Richard was Chairman and CEO of Atego Group – a private company providing mission and safety critical software and consulting services to the aerospace, military and automotive sectors. Atego was sold to PTC Inc, which is listed on NASDAQ.
Paul White
Chief Financial Officer
Paul qualified as a chartered management accountant in 2000 whilst working for Opus Energy Group Limited, where he had a long and successful tenure. During his time at the company, Opus Energy grew to be the largest independent SME B2B energy supplier in the UK. Paul helped to build the finance team, which supported transformational growth of Opus Energy from £70m to over £600m in turnover over ten years. He was also involved in the £384m sale of Opus Energy to Drax Plc in February 2017. Subsequently, Paul worked for Summit Therapeutics Plc, a NASDAQ listed clinical stage drug discovery company, where he provided business partnering and financial support. At Summit Therapeutics, Paul also contributed to the £6m acquisition of Discuva Limited, integrating their people, systems, and processes into Summit Therapeutics. Paul joined Toople as its Financial Controller in June 2020 and was promoted to Chief Financial Officer in October 2020.
Kevin Brian Lawrence
Non-Executive Director
Kevin qualified as a chartered accountant in 1986 with Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC) where he spent 14 years before moving to Grant Thornton. He has subsequently held senior financial positions in a wide range of businesses including group finance director of Lighthouse Group plc, an AIM quoted financial services business that he joined at IPO and is now the largest listed independent financial advice business in the UK, and CFO of Cybit Holdings plc from 2002 to 2010 when the business was bought out by a US private equity firm. In 2011 Kevin led Cybit through a reverse takeover of Masternaut Group to become the pan-European leader in telematics, with revenues of EUR100m and 500 employees. More recently, Kevin was CFO of Atego Group, a software development company which was acquired by PTC Inc, a NASDAQ listed company, in 2014. Kevin currently holds the position of CFO at Gardien Group, a private equity backed business specialising in the testing of PCB boards that are fabricated for clients supplying global automotive, defence, telecoms, aerospace, medical and computer hardware markets. He joined Toople in June 2018.
Greg Bryce
Chief Executive Officer
Greg has enjoyed a successful career as a sales-led business leader with experience in all types of companies; from start-ups to multinationals and private equity backed ventures, across a diverse range of sectors. Most recently he has been working as a mentor to start-ups in the healthcare, education, and telecoms sectors. He started his career at WorldCom (now Verizon), where he developed to become Head of UK Corporate Sales, before leaving to start up a telecoms business, Telecom 10 Ltd, selling the entire raft of BT's products and services to the SME marketplace. He then moved to 118 118 Media as Sales Director before spending eight successful years at DMGT until 2017, holding a variety of main board roles and often working to turn around under-performing divisions. In 2018 he joined Powered by PIE, a business which sells a variety of SaaS and data services predominantly to the legal and professional services sectors. He led a strategic review and turnaround implementing a commercial strategy to pivot the business away from its conventional transactional revenues to a highly profitable recurring revenue SaaS business model. The business was successfully sold at the end of 2019.