About Us
Active Information Systems has been providing IT services and support since 1998. We are a small team of people dedicated to ensuring that your business IT systems run smoothly. We work with our clients to provide them with reliable IT systems that enhance their business, and act as their “Trusted IT Partner”.
This means we try to know as much about our clients and their business as possible, and also like them to know about us as well.
The Active team consists of:
Chris Sewell: Managing Director
Chris was a founding member of Active in 1998, and has built the company steadily since then. An engineer at heart, Chris has a strong electronics and computing background with a BSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering as well as being a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.
In his role as Managing Director, Chris provides the guidance and direction of the company, allowing his trusted team to provide the service to our customers without interfering! A key part Chris’ ethos is providing a totally ethical and fair service to all our customers, something which he is especially proud of, and the reason behind the “Active-IT Guaranteed” promise.
Away from the office, Chris has two young children and enjoys cross country running, golf, cycling, power boating and sailing. Chris has raised significant amounts of money for Dreams Come True by running various 10km and 10mile races and cycling London to Brighton, despite being a fat git!
Alison Richards: Operations Director
Alison joined the company in March 2003 after moving back from Houston, USA. As Operations Director she is generally responsible for the day to day running of the office and will probably be the first contact you have within Active.
She is married with two ‘grown-up’ children (although she uses the term loosely!) and enjoys travelling to different places. Prior to living in America, Alison spent a number of years in Norway, but don’t ask about the ski-ing!
Nainesh Patel: Technical Manager
Nainesh Patel is our Technical Manager and joined Active in July 2005. Nainesh holds a BSc in Computer Science, and has gained professional qualifications with Microsoft and Cisco.
His key role is to provide customer satisfaction by ensuring that technical issues are dealt with promptly and efficiently, and IT installations run smoothly with as little disruption to the customer as possible.
Mark Woodward: Senior Systems Engineer
Mark joined Active Information Systems in October 2005 having worked in the IT industry for over 15 years and was able to immediately assist with new projects and our busy support department.
In his spare time, Mark is the true IT Engineer and has his own machines at home to which he is playing, learning, building and above all enjoying. This has a technical term to anyone not into Information Technology, ‘Nerd.’
Being the oldest of Active’s IT Engineers, Mark was quickly named “granddad” especially as the grey hair is starting to show, so is now titled Senior Systems Engineer, much to everyone else’s amusement. Mark believes that at 35, these things are just so slightly amusing but doesn’t bear any grudges against the adolescents he has to work with.
James Byrne: Systems Engineer
James joined Active in October 2006. Like Mark, he provides telephone/remote support to our customers.
Rosemary Sewell: Systems Engineer
Although working part-time Rosemary plays a very important role at Active. She monitors customer servers remotely and reports to the team any potential problems which may affect your business.
Nick Webb: Business Development Manager
This means we try to know as much about our clients and their business as possible, and also like them to know about us as well.
The Active team consists of:
Chris Sewell: Managing Director
Chris was a founding member of Active in 1998, and has built the company steadily since then. An engineer at heart, Chris has a strong electronics and computing background with a BSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering as well as being a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.
In his role as Managing Director, Chris provides the guidance and direction of the company, allowing his trusted team to provide the service to our customers without interfering! A key part Chris’ ethos is providing a totally ethical and fair service to all our customers, something which he is especially proud of, and the reason behind the “Active-IT Guaranteed” promise.
Away from the office, Chris has two young children and enjoys cross country running, golf, cycling, power boating and sailing. Chris has raised significant amounts of money for Dreams Come True by running various 10km and 10mile races and cycling London to Brighton, despite being a fat git!
Alison Richards: Operations Director
Alison joined the company in March 2003 after moving back from Houston, USA. As Operations Director she is generally responsible for the day to day running of the office and will probably be the first contact you have within Active.
She is married with two ‘grown-up’ children (although she uses the term loosely!) and enjoys travelling to different places. Prior to living in America, Alison spent a number of years in Norway, but don’t ask about the ski-ing!
Nainesh Patel: Technical Manager
Nainesh Patel is our Technical Manager and joined Active in July 2005. Nainesh holds a BSc in Computer Science, and has gained professional qualifications with Microsoft and Cisco.
His key role is to provide customer satisfaction by ensuring that technical issues are dealt with promptly and efficiently, and IT installations run smoothly with as little disruption to the customer as possible.
Mark Woodward: Senior Systems Engineer
Mark joined Active Information Systems in October 2005 having worked in the IT industry for over 15 years and was able to immediately assist with new projects and our busy support department.
In his spare time, Mark is the true IT Engineer and has his own machines at home to which he is playing, learning, building and above all enjoying. This has a technical term to anyone not into Information Technology, ‘Nerd.’
Being the oldest of Active’s IT Engineers, Mark was quickly named “granddad” especially as the grey hair is starting to show, so is now titled Senior Systems Engineer, much to everyone else’s amusement. Mark believes that at 35, these things are just so slightly amusing but doesn’t bear any grudges against the adolescents he has to work with.
James Byrne: Systems Engineer
James joined Active in October 2006. Like Mark, he provides telephone/remote support to our customers.
Rosemary Sewell: Systems Engineer
Although working part-time Rosemary plays a very important role at Active. She monitors customer servers remotely and reports to the team any potential problems which may affect your business.
Nick Webb: Business Development Manager
