Our Directors

Colin Price

Non-Executive Chairman

Colin was CEO of Price Waterhouse Consulting prior to its merger with Coopers and Lybrand before going onto a fifteen-year career at McKinsey, initially as a Partner and then as Senior Partner. On retiring from McKinsey, Colin became COO of Quintet Private bank thereafter launching an AI driven start up in the General Insurance space in the UK.

He is a Visiting Professor at Imperial and an Associate Fellow at Oxford and is the co-author of a number of books, including Accelerating Performance, a book on how companies can mobilize, execute and transform with agility.

Bob Frosell

Non-Executive Director

Bob joined itim as Operations Director in January 2009 having previously sat on itim’s Board as a non-executive Director for a number of years. Bob’s experience in IT spans over 30 years with many large multi-national companies. He has been the Chief Information Office at GrandMet Retailing (pubs and gastro-pubs), Pearle Vision (spectacles retailing, Burger King Corp., IMS Health (pharmaceutical information services), ACNeilson Corporation (consumer packaged goods information services) and currently CoreLogic Inc. (property information services).

Lee Williams

Non-Executive Director

Lee was most recently the CFO at Seraphine Group and has over 20 years of retail experience. Prior to Seraphine, Lee was CFO at French Connection joining from ASOS, the global online fashion destination, where he was Director of Finance. Lee spent the majority of the earlier part of his career at Wm. Morrison Supermarkets Plc and Kingfisher Plc in various senior finance roles. He also spent 4 years working for PwC Consulting with both Retail and Retail System assignments in the UK, US and Central Europe. Lee has amassed a wealth of UK and international retail experience, in both traditional multisite operations but also, importantly, online. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

Damian Hopkins CBE

Non-Executive Director

Damian Hopkins CBE, is a respected, and highly accomplished entrepreneur and business leader who has operated within the global retail, brands and licensing industry for over 25 years, having founded, built, and sold three successful businesses in the sector.
His career encompasses manufacturing, wholesale, retail, licensing, international franchising, and eCommerce, with a proven track record of launching, repositioning, and transforming consumer and celebrity brands.
His work has generated over £1bn in retail revenue and has been recognised via business awards in the fields of licensing, retail, and fashion supply.
Damian is currently the Chair of Ambassadors of The Retail Trust Charity, founded in 1832, supporting the health, hope, happiness and well-being of British retail workers.
Additionally, Damian is the President of The Twenty Club, an exclusive retail dining club, established in 1897, supporting retail fellowship for senior retail brand owners and execs.

Dennis Layton

Non-Executive Director

Dennis is the founder of Blue Owl Advisors, a network of former partners from MBB firms who focus on helping clients pragmatically grow their incremental profits in the near term.

Dennis spent the majority of his consulting career at McKinsey and Company where he was the Leader of McKinsey’s Organisation Practice in the UK and Ireland, the leader of the Hospital Operations practice, co-founder of McKinsey’s global Cyber-Security Practice and founder and global leader of McKinsey’s Diversity Practice. Dennis is a Scrum Alliance certified Scrum Master and has been instrumental in one of the most cited Agile Transformations in financial services in Europe.

Simon Evetts

Operating Director

Simon joined itim at the start of 2018 as UK Managing Director. Simon brings more than 25 years experience of omni-channel retail software and services. His experience includes 10 years at Javelin Group building and leading the technology practice, leading IBM’s European Commerce software and services business, leading Alvarez and Marsal’s EMEA Retail Practice.
Simon was one of the eCommerce pioneers, having first led the build of online channels for stores retailers in the late 1990s. Since then, he has helped many of the UKs leading retailers drive customer led omni-channel transformations. He is an expert in retail omni-channel strategy, operational and financial performance improvement and digital transformation. Clients have included Tesco, Asda, Argos, B&Q, Screwfix, The Entertainer, M&S, Burberry, New Look, Clarks, JD Williams, Co-op, H&M, Ikea and many others. Simon has also worked with international retailers across Europe and the Middle East.
Simon joined itim to accelerate business growth through sales of our market leading omni-channel retail platform and to build the capabilities required to deliver the transformations retailers are looking for based on that platform.