Meet the M2 Digital Team

David Mitchell – Non Executive Chairman

David was CEO of Astron for many years overseeing its robust growth that resulted in selling to a major US company for £520m. Since then, David has held a series of non executive roles with private equity led companies and has chaired M2 since 2006

John Hayhurst – Non Executive Director

John represents the interests of ECI Partners, M2’s private equity partner, who invested in M2 in 2006. John also sits on the board of a portfolio of other businesses including EDM and Bargain Booze and is a trained chartered accountant

Peter Quinn – Co-Founder, Executive Director

Peter co-founded M2 in 1992 being an integtral part of the historic business growth and is helping develop the future business development whilst holding a series of other entrepreneurial investments

John Taylor – Chief Executive Officer

John has held many senior positions across Finance, Operations and Sales in managed service businesses. John joined M2 in 2009 from Lex where he was a main board director, of the £1.2bn turnover business having helped drive its growth fourfold over the previous 10 years.

John Higham – Finance Director

John joined in 2006 having held a series of board positions in private equity backed businesses and originally started his career with PWC

Damien Baker – Operations Director

Damien joined M2 in 2010 after holding a series of senior roles within support services businesses with specific expertise in change management, IT and continuous improvement methodologies

Paul Hamilton – Sales Director

Paul joined M2 in 2006 after a series of senior sales roles within the industry and other service related businesses and is responsible for all sales development across all divisions

Vikki Smith – Customer Experience Director

Vikki's former experience includes sales support and CRM, ecommerce development, customer implementations and recovery programmes. She also led several merger and integration programmes. At Lex Autolease, Vikki was responsible for the customer experience strategic direction. This involved design and implementation of the account management, customer service and operations approach to drive customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Joe Gallagher – Business Director

Joe has worked for 20 years in the document solutions industry, including several years at Xerox before setting up his own business in 1996. His business grew organically to £13.5 million turnover, employing 50 people before being acquired by Bytes Technology Group in 2006.