The Group has adopted the provisions of the QCA Code or any other corporate governance regime adopted by the Board from time to time, and complies with its obligations under the Companies Act, Euronext Growth Rules, Rules for Euronext Growth Advisors, the Irish Takeover Rules, the Market Abuse Regulation. The Group is committed to high standards of corporate governance as set out in the Code. Our Corporate Governance Statement is set out in our Annual Report.
David Hargaden
David Hargaden is an experienced Board member and technology investor and is the Executive Chairman of Unity Technology Solutions, one of Ireland’s leading IT Managed Services businesses. He is currently a Non-Executive Director of ding.com, the international mobile top-up provider (2006 to present); a former Non-Executive Chairman of Cartrawler.com, Europe’s largest car rental site (2004 to 2011); and a founder and former Non-Executive Chairman of myHome.ie, Ireland’s largest property portal (2001 to 2006). David was Head of Corporate Finance at BDO Ireland (2001 to 2008) and Managing Partner at Hargaden Moor, Chartered Accountants from 1992 to 2001. He has also been Chairman of Point Information Systems and eWare, software development companies specialising in CRM.
Jonathan Rockett
Jonathan Rockett was appointed as CEO in September 2023. He joins the company from Ding, where he occupied the role of Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer (CFO). He led the organisation in various strategic and financial areas and has made a significant contribution to the overall growth of the business, including a sale to private equity in 2021. He previously held senior positions in Paddy Power (now part of Flutter Entertainment Plc.) and PwC.
Steven Moloney
Steven joins Datalex from &Open where he held the position of CFO. Prior to this Steven spent nearly 6 years at Block (formerly Square), where he was CFO for the UK & Europe, and led finance and strategy for the wider international business. Steven has also held senior roles in Hostelworld, PaddyPower and PwC. Steven is a commercially focused leader, with extensive experience leading finance organisations in fast paced technology multinationals.
John Bateson
John Bateson is the Managing Director of International Investment and Underwriting, Unlimited Company ("IIU") a related party. John is a Business Studies graduate of Trinity College Dublin and, having qualified with KPMG, is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland. Prior to joining IIU, John spent six years with the corporate finance arm of NCB Group.
Gillian French
Gillian French is a veteran people leader, organisational behaviourist, senior executive coach, and HR strategist with over 20 years' experience. She started her career in the hotel industry, working for the Jury Doyle Group where she held numerous business leadership roles. Gillian then diversified her career and moved into high growth scaling technology businesses where she served as Chief People Officer for CarTrawler and for Cubic Telecom. Gillian now works with Workvivo as their Chief People Strategist she contributes to their thought leadership and works with the team on the organisations people strategy. She is passionate about people strategy, building resilient and sustainable organisational culture and improving global employee experience. Gillian is also a board advisor with ReganWall law firm.
Mike McGearty
Mike McGearty is the former CEO of CarTrawler and a qualified Chartered Management Accountant. Under his leadership, CarTrawler consistently recorded high double-digit year on year growth, completed two major private equity investments as well as the acquisition of the online assets of Holiday Autos from Lastminute.com. Revenue increased from €1m to more than €200m annually. Prior to joining CarTrawler, Mike worked for eWare, a leading developer of CRM software which was acquired by the software accounting giant, SAGE plc. He also worked at Point Information Systems, a CRM provider, which was acquired by S1. He is currently Chairman of the Board at CitySwift, a high growth technology platform for Bus companies.
Jonathan Rockett
Jonathan Rockett was appointed as CEO in September 2023. He joins the company from Ding, where he occupied the role of Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer (CFO). He led the organisation in various strategic and financial areas and has made a significant contribution to the overall growth of the business, including a sale to private equity in 2021. He previously held senior positions in Paddy Power (now part of Flutter Entertainment Plc.) and PwC.
Steven Moloney
Steven joins Datalex from &Open where he held the position of CFO. Prior to this, Steven spend nearly 6 years at Block (formerly Square), where he was CFO for the UK & Europe, and led finance and strategy for the wider international business. Steven has also held senior roles in Hostelworld, PaddyPower and PWC. Steven is a commercially focused leader, with extensive experience leading finance organisations in fast paced technology multinationals.
Emma Holohan
Emma has a wide range of experience in strategy and transformation. Prior to joining Datalex, Emma worked in management consulting in KPMG advising organisations across a range of industries including infrastructure, aviation, banking, and retail. Prior to this, Emma worked in strategy and corporate development at Aesop. Emma is a fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland and completed her training in Corporate Finance in Deloitte.
Brian Lewis
An experienced technology leader with extensive travel domain knowledge, Brian has previously held senior architectural positions in SITA, worked closely with IATA and held the position of CTO at OpenJaw Technologies. Brian has a proven track record of delivering complex platforms and solutions to airlines and travel providers as well as scaling and transforming technical capabilities within an organisation.
Bryan Porter
Datalex’s Chief Revenue Officer, Bryan Porter, is a seasoned commercial leader in the travel technology sector. Prior to joining Datalex, Bryan was Senior Vice President of Sales and Account Management at Accelya, Chief Commercial Officer at OpenJaw Technologies and an airline industry e-Commerce executive. Bryan is a passionate evangelist for emerging Offer and Order standards and the promise they bring to the next generation of airline retailing technologies. As Chief Revenue Officer at Datalex, Bryan has overall responsibility for the Sales, Marketing and Customer teams.
Ellen Treacy
Ellen has comprehensive operations and software process management experience and prior to her current role, was Director of Operations and Software Process Management at Datalex. She has held senior software technical roles at Fujitsu and at IONA Technologies.
Corporate Governance
Datalex plc has adopted the provisions of the QCA Code and the additional requirements of the Irish Annex and is committed to high standards of corporate governance as set out in the Code and the Annex. Our Corporate Governance Statement is set out in our Annual Report.
Board Committees
Board has three standing Committees which support the operation of the Board through their focus on specific areas of governance. Each Committee has formal terms of reference approved by the Board which set out how it should operate including its role, membership, authority and duties and is governed by a statement of general principles and rules of procedure adopted by the Board. Details of these Committees and the applicable terms of reference are available below.
| Audit & Risk | Remuneration | Nomination & Governance | |
| David Hargaden | Member | Member | - |
| John Bateson | - | - | Chair |
| Peter Lennon | - | Chair | Member |
| Mike McGearty | Chair | - | - |
| Gillian French | - | Member | Member |