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Directors
Richard Wolfe
Chief Executive Officer
Email: richard.wolfe@tracegroup.com
Richard Wolfe co-founded Trace with Colin Clarke in December 1974
and has remained with the company ever since.
After reading Chemistry at Durham University, Richard joined Unisys
as a systems analyst. He worked there for 5 years, specialising
in database management systems.
At Trace, Richard was responsible for establishing and developing
Trace Isys, which provides solutions for the insurance and reinsurance
broking markets. He remained Managing Director of Trace Isys until
1996 when he became Managing Director of Trace Financial. In April
2000 he was appointed Chief Operating Officer of the Trace Group
and in December 2000 he became Chief Executive Officer. He has operational
responsibility for all of the Group’s software and services
businesses, and reports directly to the Chairman and the Board.
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Peter
Stolerman
Financial Director
Email: peter.stolerman@tracegroup.com
Peter Stolerman was appointed as Trace's first Finance Director in
November 1988. He played a key role in the floatation of the company
in the summer of 1989 and remains responsible for all financial and
administrative matters.
Having completed an economics degree at the University of Bath, Peter
joined Arthur Andersen & Co.'s London office as a graduate trainee.
He qualified in 1980 and became an audit manager in 1983. During the
early part of his career, Peter worked closely with manufacturing
companies, but then moved into the commercial division, concentrating
on retail operations and property. He was seconded for a year to the
Department of Transport and spent another year with the management
consultancy division, working on joint projects in the financial and
public sectors. Towards the end of his time at Arthur Andersen, he
joined the reporting accountants group and specialised in mergers
and acquisitions, floatations, rights issues and all other aspects
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Colin Clarke
Non Executive Director
Colin Clarke co-founded Trace with Richard Wolfe in 1974. His previous
work experience included 10 years with Unisys (formerly Burroughs),
latterly as a sales manager. He specialised in financial and property
accounting systems and until 1999 was the managing director of Trace
Solutions Limited, which provides property management and accounting
solutions.
Colin retired from full time work in 1999, but continues to serve
Trace as a non-executive Director.
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Mick Flynn
Executive Director
Mick Flynn joined Trace in May 1976 as a programmer and was immediately
involved in the development of a property management system. Previously,
Mick had been at Mercedes Benz, where he progressed through their
IT training programme. In 1980, Mick was appointed as a director
following the successful implementation of a retail sales and stock
system that he had project managed. In 1992, Mick became a senior
director with Trace Solutions which was formed from a merger between
Trace’s property management division and Micrologic, a specialist
in the property transaction sector. Through the late 1990s, Mick
led the development team which designed and produced the current
TRAMPS product, Trace Solutions’ flagship software solution
for managing agents. Mick was appointed as Managing Director of
Trace Solutions in 1999 and has overseen the continued growth of
the customer base as well as expansion into new sectors for investors
and occupiers and latterly into the international market.
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John Murphy
Executive Director
After reading Mathematics at Sussex University, John Murphy taught
Mathematics and Computing in Sussex and London. John joined Image
software in 1981 and worked as an analyst programmer and project
manager, becoming a director of the company in 1984. Trace acquired
Image Software in 1986 and combined Image Software with other Trace
companies focused on finance. The new entity was named Trace Financial
and John was appointed to the board of Trace Financial with responsibility
for all projects and operations in 1990. He became Managing Director
of Trace Financial in 2000 and recently became a director of Tulip
Holdings. John was appointed to the board of Trace in October 2007
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Andrew Bell
Executive Director
Andrew joined the Trace Group in 2003 as Managing Director of Trace Payroll Services. Andrew has been in the payroll business for most of his working life, starting out with Centrefile (now Ceridian) in 1974. Over the next 23 years he progressed through the business, gaining experience in customer services, sales, implementation, product development and marketing. As the company grew in the late 1980s, he became the Sales Director, leading a sales force of over 40. He followed this with the role of Customer Services Director, with responsibility for all aspects of UK service delivery. During this period, the fully managed payroll service was developed and the traditional payroll bureau would never be the same again!
In 1997 Andrew moved to ITnet, a business process outsourcing company that is now part of Serco, and took on responsibility for the payroll and pensions outsourced contracts for a number of local and county councils based in Hertford. This was followed by a series of short term consultancy assignments before he was lured back into the world of managed payrolls at Trace. In his 4 years with the Company, the business has grown considerably and is now a real alternative to the 'big 3' payroll providers, demonstrating that bigger is not always better and that the personal touch of a smaller organisation is often preferred.
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Connel Torley
Executive Director
Connel joined Trace in January 1984 after completing a MSC Course in Computing. Initially he worked as a developer on the original Trace Insurance broking package TWINS. From this he moved into account management and looked after many of Trace Isys most significant customers. In 1996 Connel took overall responsibility for the Sedgwick project, the largest project ever undertaken by the Trace Group at that time.
He was made a company director in 1992 and managing director of Trace Isys in 1994. Connel continues to play an active role in the development of Isys’ products and in recent times he has overseen the implementation of a messaging infrastructure to facilitate the commercial insurance market’s move towards electronic trading.
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