Simon Piercy is a co-founder and director of Contigo, with responsibilities for Commercial Sales, Project Management and Industry Awareness. Simon has 12 years experience in Project Management within the energy and utilities sector, having previously worked at Powergen, E.ON UK and Severn Trent Water. He played a key role in implementing Zainet and the trading application suite at E.ON UK, during the transition to the New Electricity Trading Arrangements (NETA), and subsequently headed the Front Office systems development group. Simon has been the Project Manager on some of the largest IT programmes undertaken within Energy Trading and Energy Wholesale at E.ON UK, covering electricity, coal and oil trading.

At Contigo, Simon provides Consultancy and Project Management to a number of client projects, whilst overseeing corporate strategy. He has gained a detailed understanding of Gas Interruption Reform, having been involved in projects to help both Distribution Network and Shipper companies manage the process changes needed for this industry change.

Simon is an APMG certified PRINCE2 Practitioner, a Microsoft Certified Practitioner and holds a B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science from Nottingham University, graduating in 1992.

“When we founded Contigo, we knew there was a great opportunity to combine systems expertise with industry knowledge. We have a pin-point focus on this niche area and we’ve stuck to that rigidly – it means we’re up to speed from day one and can get started on projects without a lengthy ramp up time. We make sure customers projects are delivered quickly and are successful; in doing so we continue to grow and be successful ourselves”

Jonathan Yeomans is a co-founder and director of Contigo, and heads up the Marketing, Business Analysis and Consultancy fields. Jonathan has 19 years’ IT experience, split between the Automotive sector and, for the last 12 years, the Energy Trading and utilities sector. He has worked with a range of high profile companies, including BMW (in both Belgium and South Africa), FIAT, Unipart, E.ON UK, and Rome Corp (for European and American clients).

Previous to founding Contigo he played a lead role at E.ON UK, designing, building and implementing many successful systems across all areas of their Energy Trading/Wholesale operation - from Front Office Trading of physical fuel products, through Middle Office Risk Management and Price Forecasting solutions to Back Office Settlement systems. During the last six years, Jonathan has focussed on development using the latest Microsoft .NET technologies and tools. He also develops advanced workflow and reporting solutions for Rome Corp using Java and the jBPM workflow and BIRT report toolsets.

Jonathan graduated in 1988 with a B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science from Staffordshire University.

"I still get a real buzz from demonstrating innovative, ergonomic and visually stunning solutions that we have rapidly built for our clients. Their usual response is amazement that 'so much system has been built so quickly'. We are able to achieve this due to a number of factors.

1) Contigo's proprietary code generation tool rapidly constructs the application framework.
2) Using an Agile development methodology ensures we develop the clients 'high value added' functionality first.
3) A combination of deep domain and technical knowledge allows us to deliver solutions fast and allows our customers to realise an early ROI.

There is nothing better than recieving positive feedback from clients who are excited and passionate about the solutions Contigo are delivering."

Adrian Bullock is a co-founder and director of Contigo where he is responsible for Product Development and Finance. Adrian has 18 years of commercial software development experience using a wide range of technologies for a variety of blue chip companies including AT&T, AXA Funds Management and E.ON UK.

In the last few years at E.ON UK, Adrian was responsible for designing and developing a wide range of systems including Trading, Notification, Credit Risk Management, Gas Forecasting and Fuel Trading systems. At AXA Funds Management, Adrian ran the development team that designed and built a fixed interest front office trading system and a Investment Portfolio compliance system. Recently, Adrian has concentrated on using Microsoft .NET technology and designed much of the standard application framework used by E.ON UK for .NET development.

Adrian holds a B.Sc. (Hons) in Electro-Acoustics from Salford University, graduating in 1988.

Symon Squires is a co-founder and director of Contigo. Symon leads on Technology Strategy and Partner Relations. Sharing the E.ON UK background of the other founders, he was involved in developing numerous high profile and successful projects within a lead capacity. These included Oil, Coal and Freight trading and NGT Gemini integration with existing Gas management systems and Renewables management. He was also instrumental in the successful introduction of Microsoft .NET technologies within E.ON UK Energy Wholesale that has remained the in-house development standard.

Prior to E.ON UK, he worked for a Microsoft gold partner, benefiting from early exposure of .NET technologies and other Microsoft products. Symon made the transition from an engineering background to IT via the EDS graduate program, developing systems for the Inland Revenue account.

Symon graduated in 1997 with a M.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering and subsequently a M.Sc. in Work Design/Ergonomics from Birmingham University.