Management Team

Geoffrey Finlay

Chief Executive Officer

Geoffrey Finlay joined nCipher plc on 3 December 2007. Geoffrey brings more than 25 years experience within the enterprise software industry. He was Chief Executive Officer at Kewill Systems plc until 2001, having previously been Managing Director of JDA Software Inc, Intersolv plc and Data 3 Systems Inc. Since leaving Kewill, he has served as Chairman on the boards of several technology companies, including Cachelogic and UDEX, primarily leading them on their strategies and business development, and is the founder and non-executive Chairman of Biobanc Group (formerly Life4ce), a life sciences services company.

Ira Zalesin

Executive Director, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Marketing Officer

Ira Zalesin joined the Board of nCipher plc on 31 December 2007. Ira brings more than 25 years experience within both US and UK public and private companies. He was Chief Executive Officer at UDEX Holdings until 2006. Previously he was Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Strategic Advisor to the Board at Kewill Systems plc. Since leaving UDEX he has been an advisor to the boards of several technology companies on their expansion strategies and business development.

George Ralph

Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary

George Ralph is responsible for the financial management and control of nCipher's operations. George is an experienced company secretary and divisional finance director, most recently as Finance Director (Europe) of Abacus Group plc. Previously he was Group Financial Controller and Group Company Secretary of Deltron Electronics plc, which was acquired by Abacus Group plc in January 2006.

Richard Moulds

Executive Vice President Product Strategy

As executive vice president product strategy, Richard Moulds is responsible for defining the company’s product and service solutions. Richard joined nCipher in early 2000 with more than 14 years of technology marketing and business development experience. Richard holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Birmingham University and an MBA from Warwick University, UK.

Ian Dunlop

Vice President of Engineering

As vice president of engineering, Ian Dunlop leads the software and hardware product development teams located in the UK, Canada and the U.S. With a focus on timely, high quality product delivery, Ian brings 25 years of experience of leading global software delivery in companies such as IBM and Novell, with the last 7 years spent concentrating on security and identity management. Ian received a bachelor's degree (with distinction) in Computer Science from Trinity College, Dublin.

Aidan Hegarty

Chief Information Officer

Aidan has a strong technical background and brings more than 25 years’ experience of software enterprises. He began his career at Plessey Telecommunications and has since held a number of executive positions at American Can UK, Kewill Systems plc and UDEX.