Led by founder and CEO, Michael McKinlay, we employ only the most talented and committed people. We share a collective passion for delivering excellence and enjoy a challenging, yet rewarding work ethic.
Our research and development teams are highly skilled and with over 180 man years of contact center industry experience between them, are constantly pioneering technically advanced solutions for the contact center environment. Some of our key people are profiled below.
Michael McKinlay
Chief Executive Officer
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Michael is the founder and CEO of Sytel Limited. He provided the vision and design that led to Sytel’s world-beating outbound dialing algorithms. He is highly regarded for the lead he has given in markets all over the world on responsible dialing practices and is an advisor and mentor to many of the marketing and telecommunications regulators around the world.
Originally from New Zealand, Michael spent his early computing years in IBM and Fujitsu where he held a number of senior management positions in sales and company acquisitions, both in the UK and North America.
He is a graduate in Mathematics and Economics from Victoria University, Wellington
Garry Pearson
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Garry Pearson has served as Sytel’s CTO for over a decade. Like many of Sytel’s technical staff, Garry was a self-taught schoolboy programmer weaned on a diet of Z80 and 6502 assembler. His professional career as a software developer spans 2 decades; initial work on compilers, development tools and RDBMS technology led him into the call center and telecommunications industry in the early 1990s. During the ’90s Garry led the R&D team at Tele-Connect Systems.
Since joining Sytel, Garry has led the development effort to take Sytel from being a dialer specialist to becoming a world leader in the arena of hosted call center telecommunications and multimedia services.
Garry is also providing the technical lead for the Network AMD Working Party. This group comprises many outbound telephony industry stakeholders, looking into setting standards for networks to provide instantly recognisable tones, so that automatic answering machine detection (AMD) can be made 100% reliable.
Eduardo Miller
Director of Development
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Eduardo has a BSc in Computer Science and Postgraduate certificate in Software Engineering and has also lectured Computer Science at the SENAI University at Florianopolis.
He is fluent in both English and Portuguese.
Dave Nicholls
Pre-Sales Manager
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Dave has over 30 years experience in the telecoms industry, including over 25 years with predictive diallers.
Dave has held management positions covering software development, deployment, training and support. As an independent consultant he worked worldwide helping suppliers and users design and deploy solutions.
Dave was also closely involved in the creation of dialling guidelines for the UK Direct Marketing Association, which were later incorporated into Ofcom’s dialling policies.
Outside of work Dave serves on his village Parish Council and enjoys using his eBike to overtake proper cyclists on hills…
Tom McKinlay
Pre-Sales Manager
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Tom has traveled extensively and is a budding chef in his spare time.
Jamie Stewart
Marketing Manager
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The promotional instincts that he developed in the music industry are being put to excellent use in his role as Marketing Manager.
Sampath Wijesinghe
Deployment Manager
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Prior to joining Sytel, Sampath developed UK service and field applications.
Sampath has studied Computing and Business and has also lectured at the National Institute of Business Management in Colombo.
Andrew Sobolewski
Support Manager
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Andrew is fluent in English and Polish and also speaks Russian to a confident level. Apart from running and swimming he also plays volleyball for a local club.