Board of Directors

Marwan Abdo – Managing Director

Marwan is one of the original founders of Elite Testing Consultants (ETC). Having attained a Masters Degree in Finance, Marwan started to gain experience working in the financial sector at companies such as Price Waterhouse, Lehman Brothers, Coutts Bank, Norwich Union and Fidelity Investments.

Marwan first realised the importance of software testing whilst working at a financial institution that suffered heavily for not testing a new system installation. He discovered that there were few high quality testing companies and that the importance of testing was being recognised more and more on software development projects.

Using his entrepreneurial skills, he set up a testing consultancy with some like-minded individuals. The focus was on providing strong testing consultancy from strategy to meet client needs through to delivery of systems that are fit for purpose. MagenTys has been extremely successful and has acquired some long-term high profile clients which is a testament to Marwan’s vision and the quality of the work and people that made it happen.

Hamish Tedeschi – Director of Operations

Hamish Tedeschi is one of the founding members of MagenTys, and also its previous incarnation as Elite Testing Consultants. As an entrepreneur at heart, Hamish has a passion for delivering new services in an innovative ways to clients. Having been a Senior Test Consultant at the centre of the business for many years, Hamish is now focusing more on the day to day running operations of MagenTys.

Kevin McGuire – Sales & Marketing Director

Kevin is one of the original founders of Elite Testing Consultants (ETC) and played a key role in the restructuring of the business to form MagenTys. He grew up with a passion for Mathematics and gained a B.Sc. in Mathematics & Statistics which help pave the journey into the world of IT.

With a chosen discipline of Software Testing, Kevin has a wealth of experience in leading the testing phase of the software development life cycle for new system developments, system enhancements, web testing, system integrations, data migration and data warehousing. He has a passion for test process improvement, increasing the quality of testing and reducing its cost by introducing automated test strategies.

Kevin currently undertakes a dual role at MagenTys and is head of the Sales and Marketing Department. He has been instrumental in developing the MagenTys brand and works closely with the company’s New Business Development Manager and Sales Team in creating new business strategies.

David Ansell – Technical Director

David is the company’s most prominent technical expert and is the head of the MagenTys Centre of Excellence.

He grew up with a fascination of home computing which has led him to achieve a very distinguished career within the IT industry. He started out in Computer Operations working on VAX 11/780’s which provided a solid base and stepping stone into a number of areas such as development, technical support, helpdesk management, IT security, project implementation and testing.

David has a wealth of experience within the financial industry, previous clients include Coutts & Co, Rothchilds and Royal Bank of Scotland.