The Board of Directors at Dotdigital bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the senior governance of the business. They are key drivers behind the company's corporate goals and growth strategy.
Milan joined the Group in 2007 before being appointed as Group Company Secretary in 2009. He later took on the roles of CFO in 2015 and CEO in 2016. As a fellow member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), Milan has successfully overseen the Group’s admission to ISDX (now Aquis - AQSE) and its listing on AIM.
Before becoming the Group’s permanent CEO over eight years ago, Milan managed the Group’s financial management and reporting, regulatory compliance, legal, and corporate governance functions. He offers valuable strategic financial and commercial expertise to the Board. In addition to his financial acumen, he possesses a wide range of operational skills, robust leadership qualities, international business development experience, mergers and acquisition expertise, and strong decisive management skills.
As the leader of the Executive team, Milan is responsible for guiding the Company’s vision and growth strategy. Specifically, he spearheads the Group’s international growth strategy, accelerated product innovation, strategic partnership development, and acquisition strategy execution. Throughout the Company’s life on public markets, Milan has consistently demonstrated a solid track record in delivering performance against plans.
Alistair joined the Board on 19 September 2022 as CFO. He is a Chartered Accountant (FCA ICAEW), bringing experience of senior finance leadership roles in international technology businesses. At Dotdigital he leads the finance and legal teams and uses his experience to improve productivity and accelerate growth through sound commercial and strategic decisions. Alistair also plays a leading role in driving the Group’s M&A programme.
He led Group financial planning and analyses activities at Unit4 Business Software. During this period, he also steered the Group through financial due diligence as Advent International sold the business to TA Associates and Partners Group.
Previously, he held a Finance Director role and led the Group Commercial Finance team at Iris Software Group, having supported the sale of the group in 2018. He trained as an accountant at Deloitte, working in the transaction and restructuring services team.
John was appointed as Non-Executive Chairman of the Board on 5 July 2022, following the resignation of the previous Non-Executive Chairman. He brings significant executive and non-executive Board-level experience of both fully-listed and AIM-quoted businesses.
He began his career in the IT industry with IBM in 1983 where he worked in a range of industries in technical, sales and marketing roles. Recent public company roles include Chief Executive Officer of Psion PLC, the fully-listed international mobile device company, from April 2008 to October 2012 when it was acquired by Motorola; Non-Executive Director of NetDimensions (Holdings) Limited, the AIM-quoted human capital management software company, from October 2016 to April 2017 when it acquired by Learning Technologies plc. In addition he was Non-Executive Chairman of Wameja Limited, the AIM and ASX quoted innovative mobile financial services company that was acquired by Mastercard in 2021. He was Executive Chairman of the AIM-listed FireAngel Safety Technology Group PLC until June 2023. Since September 2023 John has been Executive Chairman of PE backed company Aura Futures Ltd.
Boris joined the Board on 26 March 2019 and is the CEO of CitNOW Group, a Living Bridge and Tenzing portfolio company providing SaaS and Data solutions to the automotive industry across 50 countries. Boris brings present day experience of running global software, big data and analytics businesses–topics of key importance to Dotdigital.
Boris joined CitNOW in 2024, having previously held roles in the technology industry for 20 years, ranging from Board Director with Maxima Plc, Chief Executive at Sword CT Space, UK & I Executive Board at Experian and Global ID&F MD for GBG Plc.
During those years, he delivered sustainable organic growth and executed bolt-on acquisitions. From turnaround to successful public to public exit transactions, Boris drove performance through hands-on P&L management, international business development, cross-continents operations, mergers and acquisitions and company restructurings and integrations.
Liz joined the Board on 1 May 2020 and also chairs the Audit and Risk Committee. She is a highly experienced Executive and Non-Executive Director with a career spanning the Financial Services, Data and Software sectors. After an early career with Lloyds Bank, Liz qualified as a Chartered Accountant with EY.
Liz was Chief Financial Officer for Callcredit (now Transunion), a successful consumer data business, where as a founder member, she oversaw its rapid growth from start-up to a £150m revenue business. During that period, she was instrumental in the purchase and integration of several successful acquisitions and has end-to-end experience of significant private equity and trade corporate transactions.
She is also a Trustee and Chair of Finance and Investment for Yorkshire Cancer Research and sits on the Council of the University of Leeds, where she is also a member of the Audit and Risk Committee.
Previous NED and Audit Chair roles have included Tracsis plc, an AIM-listed software business in the transportation sector, LINK Scheme, the ATM operator, and Leeds Trinity University.
She brings experience of high-growth acquisitive business, and financial, audit and governance expertise to the Board at Dotdigital.