Chris Thomason, 51, joined TIS Software in December 2001 as Alliances Manager and now holds responsibility for all sales activity.

After gaining a BA Honours degree from Oxford Polytechnic and MSc in Operational Research from University of Sussex he took up a corporate planning role with British Gas. He joined James Martin Associates (JMA) in 1988 and undertook a variety of IT consultancy assignments, both in the UK and overseas. A move to sales followed the takeover of JMA by Texas Instruments Software in 1991, and in 1993 he was appointed sales manager for IT consultants Newell & Budge. Further sales and sales management roles followed with Sterling Software and Onyx Software, where he held the posts of Strategic Alliances Director and Sales Director, prior to joining TIS Software.