Our leadership team

Agile, centre-weighted leadership team and inherent structure.

PAUL ECCLESTON

SVP EMEA

Paul joined Exclusive Networks in 2022 with a proven track record in building and scaling successful channel organisations, driving innovation and accelerating growth, especially around cybersecurity, enterprise software, SaaS and cloud technologies.

Through his career Paul has amassed a wealth of channel knowledge and experience having held executive leadership roles at Computacenter, SCC and TechData. He founded Nuvias in 2015, scaling it to a multi hundred million dollar business across EMEA in just 5 years.

GRAHAM AYNSLEY

UK&I Director of Commercial and Operations

Graham joined Exclusive Networks in 2013 as Commercial Director following 8 successful years with Integralis/NTT Com Security, during which time he successfully completed an Exec MBA from Warwick Business School.

He brings with him 25 years of international experience within finance and commercial operations including financial management at Societe Generale based in Australia. This followed senior management roles in the City of London with Tullett Prebon, and UBS.

Graham is responsible for both the Finance and Operation departments at Exclusive Networks UK, reprising his role as F&O Director at NTT Com Security.

ADAM WILLIAMSON

Sales Director

Adam joined VADition (acquired by Exclusive Networks in 2009) following a career in insurance sales with RBS. A long term member of the Exclusive Networks family, Adam leads our sales team having joined us as an internal vendor manager all those years ago. He has worked in various sales roles whilst at Exclusive Networks giving him a strong understanding of the important parts each department play in order to get the job done.

Whilst looking after the everyday sales activity, Adam is also responsible for the longer term sales strategy and ensuring we are helping our partners drive incremental revenue utilising our range of services and solutions.

MATTHEW PAYNTER

UK & Ireland Vendor Alliances Director

Matt has had a passion for Value Added distribution for 16 years, doing his apprenticeship at COMPUTERLINKS through various roles from Internal Account Manager to Global Account Director.

He joined Exclusive in 2015 to head up the Palo Alto Networks Business Unit taking it from £33m to a £100m franchise.

In July 2021 Matt was promoted to Vendor Alliances Director to head up all our vendor relationships and strategy day to day, as well as helping to maintain the all important agility and engagement with our vendors to drive incremental business for all parties.

HELEN WEBBER

EMEA HR Director

Joining Exclusive Networks in 2016, Helen has over 30 years of experience of providing guidance and advice to senior managers in start-up, growth and stable organisations. Her broad experience includes employee relations, talent acquisition, employee development and management. She has experience in various industries including Banking, retail and technology. Prior to joining Exclusive Networks, Helen was the Global Business Partner for the Consumer Technology Division of Underwriters Laboratories Ltd.

Helen is committed to fostering the values of the company where hard work is consistently recognised and rewarded.

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