Our People
Our skilled, passionate, and forward-thinking team of 500+, all work together to grow our knowledge, experience, and capabilities, so that we better apply ourselves to the needs of our customers.
The Executive Board
Lee Hemani
Chief Executive Officer
Leon (Lee) Hemani joined XMA in 2010, initially as Sales Director following its acquisition of his Direct IT business. Within XMA, Lee brought breadth and depth to relationships with key vendor partners and concurrently sponsored developing relationships with new vendors.
Kelvin Lee
Chief Revenue Officer
With over 20 years of procurement, supply chain and operations experience in the Private and Public sector, Kelvin now works to provide XMA with a clear roadmap to continuing success.Â
Tony Taylor
Chief Financial Officer
Tony leads the XMA financial operations, always with the aim of unlocking maximum value – not just for XMA, but for our customers as well. With a strong track-record in financial leadership and an exceptionally broad skill set, Tony has helped build teams and deliver business-critical projects across multiple different regions. Tony’s many years’ experience in the IT channel brings a breadth of knowledge and expertise to XMA, well beyond his financial remit.
Lea-Ann Mclean
Chief People Officer
Lea-Ann joined XMA in 2021 as our HR Director, quickly advancing to become Chief People Officer. Representing the people function, Lea-Ann has worked closely with business stakeholders to build a highly-skilled and respected HR function within XMA that focuses on driving our core values and making XMA a great place to work for all.
Operational Excellence Board
Lucy Miller
Supply Chain Director
Lucy Miller Supply Chain Director Lucy is responsible for the Customer Experience Pillar within XMA.
Encouraging collaboration across all business functions, nurture great relationships internally ensuring they work in harmony to consistently deliver eXceptional end-to-end customer eXperience across all stages, channels, and touchpoints in our customer journeys.
Luke Pickering
Financial Controller
Luke Pickering Financial Director Luke is XMA’s extremely talented Financial Director, providing XMA with financial guidance and strategic planning to support various business activities. He uses his experience and knowledge to develop internal policies and procedures to ensure an XMA’ runs smoothly. Luke has a strong track record in financial leadership and an exceptionally broad skill set, having helped build teams and deliver business-critical projects across multiple different regions.
Jason Birtwell
Director of Information
Technology & Compliance
Jason is XMA’s highly commercially aware and experienced IT Director, who has a successful background in B2B, B2C, warehousing, logistics, transport and vending solutions in retail, consumer, technology, commercial & corporate sectors.
Cerian Morris
Director of HR, Employee
Relations and Service
Delivery
Ceri joined XMA in February 2022 having previously spent 4.5 years in Channel Distribution as a HR Business Partner, supporting HR Operations across 20 EMEA countries. Since joining XMA, her role has focused on delivering, driving and embedding our People & HR Strategies across the business and applying operational and customer service eXcellence in every employee and customer interaction HR has.
Business Development Board
Dennis Fox
Sales Director Devolved Nations
Dennis is an ambitious Sales Director with the vision and leadership insights to strategically plan, direct and advance organizational performance on existing and emerging business opportunities. Dynamic change agent focused on execution to drive sales and operational excellence across multiple divisions.
Expertise in providing breakthrough leadership to achieve strategic goals, build coalition to support and drive business growth and manage change in a Global environment.
Paul Harrison
Sales Director England
Paul is a motivated Sales Director who consistently monitors market activity, business trends and technologies to build relevant sales teams.
Thrives as both a sales leader and client sponsor with the goal of delivering customer service excellence generating results for the team and the wider business – a true team player.
At ease under pressure, reacting quickly, effectively and appropriately re-prioritising work and influencing others where necessary to get the job done.
Darren Howe
Strategy, Commercial Development
& ESG Director
Darren is XMA’s Commercial and ESG Director with a wealth of experience in key leadership and relationship roles where company growth has been maximised and market share increased.
A driven and highly tenacious leader who thrives on a global platform, using breadth of management experience and entrepreneurial thinking who would enhance any forward-thinking organisation
James Perkins
Commercial and Marketing Director
James is passionate about building high achieving customer centric teams to support and drive our customers challenges and issues, so they can delight their stakeholders and customers. He brings over 20 years in the IT channel across multiple countries, Corporate and SMB sectors, Enterprise, software and Devices categories to name a few, and services organisations. He also brings experience in E-procurement, E-commerce to help our customers drive success.
Tanith Russell
Sales Operations Director
With 20 years’ experience in Technology and Consumer electronic sales verticals, Tanith is XMA’s Sales Operations Director.
She is very experienced is the transformation of individuals, teams and systems. Skilled in identifying problem areas and driving change to achieve divisional sales targets and wider corporate objectives.
Terry Chana
Terry Chana
Chief Technology Officer
With over 17 years in the IT channel, Terry leads XMA’s Customer Success division, shaping technology direction, championing customer advocacy, and defining the brand’s market identity.
He oversees a team of consultants, architects, and customer success managers, building ecosystems with best-of-breed partners. Terry is ultimately responsible for ensuring XMA’s commitment to innovation and excellence.Â
Terry Chana
Chief Technology Officer
With over 17 years in the IT channel, Terry leads XMA’s Customer Success division, shaping technology direction, championing customer advocacy, and defining the brand’s market identity.
He oversees a team of consultants, architects, and customer success managers, building ecosystems with best-of-breed partners. Terry is ultimately responsible for ensuring XMA’s commitment to innovation and excellence.Â
Services Board
Kelvin Lee
Chief Revenue Officer
With over 20 years of procurement, supply chain and operations experience in the Private and Public sector, Kelvin now works to provide XMA with a clear roadmap to continuing success. He works closely with key internal stakeholders and our strategic supply chain partners to ensure expectations are always met or exceeded. Kelvin’s remit is ever expanding and his strong leadership capabilities has also seen him take ownership of our commercial division.
Lea-Ann Mclean
Chief People Officer
Lea-Ann joined XMA in 2021 as our HR Director, quickly advancing to become Chief People Officer. Representing the people function, Lea-Ann has worked closely with business stakeholders to build a highly-skilled and respected HR function within XMA that focuses on driving our core values and making XMA a great place to work for all.
Arlene Burnside
Services Finance Director
As Services Finance Director, Arlene is responsible for governing the commercial and financial processes that are the backbone of our Services Business. Working together with Sales and Operations, their aim is to grow XMA’s services business through innovation and investment, expanding our services capability and creating efficiencies that will improve our customers’ experience
Jimmy Devlin
Services Director
As Services Director working alongside the rest of the Service Board, Jimmy helps set strategic direction with the aim of growing the XMA Service business through innovation and strategic investment.
Jimmy’s role as Services Director is to lead the delivery and operational functions of the services business, focused on customer experience and service capability while driving efficiencies through automation and shift left.
A great place to work
As an organisation which strives to be a great place to work, we believe that a happy workforce will provide the best service to our customers. We offer a competitive benefits package as well as a supportive and progressive working environment.
