Our team

David Alexander

Chief Executive & Platform Architect

David Alexander, Former Director of Strategy and Marketing at  Northgate Public Services  and Group development director at  Computacenter plc , David has over 40 years private and public sector experience in mission critical systems development, software architecture design and engineering, proposition development, innovation and commercial management that gives him a solid foundation on which to build Mydex CIC. David leads on our Project Implementation and Programme engagement with UK Government and key collaborative programmes relating to Identity, Identity Assurance and Personal Data Empowerment.

Steve Quinn

Lead Development and Support Engineer

Steve is responsible for leading the development and support team working across the range of Mydex platforms and services. Steve works directly with David to technically decompose our Product Roadmaps into our reusable building blocks for implementation that underpin our Core API Services and Web Applications Feature Blocks.

Emily Quimby

Software Developer Engineer

Emily's background is in the arts, mental health and learning disabilities support. She has supported many people to lead more fulfilling and creative lives despite their challenging circumstances. Emily has an MSc in Software Development which adds to her already broad set of skills. She is committed to improving people's lives whether that is through sharing creative skills or creating and implementing solutions to the difficulties that citizens experience in simply navigating life.

Marco D'Aleo

Development Operations, Systems Administration and Security Engineer

Marco’s background is in juggling and restoration. Through the years, this particular combination of studies gave him the chance to travel around Europe and work on some beautiful pieces of art of the Sicilian heritage, including a UNESCO World Heritage Site. During the same years, he became passionate about Linux and, more recently, he fell in love with containerisation, scripting and automation. In his work with Mydex, Marco uses his skills to streamline pipelines, create new tools to help the team and, of course, keep the Mydex platforms up and secure.

Alan Mitchell

Non-executive Chairman

Alan Mitchell, one of the founders of Mydex, has been pioneering the opportunity of personal information empowerment for two decades. His 2001 book Right Side Up predicted the rise of ‘consumer agent’ business models and in 2004 he helped form the Buyer Centric Commerce Forum a networking group for entrepreneurs working in this space. Alan is our principal author of white papers, consultations our main blog.

Alex Stobart

Finance Director | Director Scotland

A former senior civil servant, Alex is now a Director at Mydex CIC and social entrepreneur. He believes that collaboration across sectors can drive the potential for person centred services in public sector, social enterprise and business. Alex leads Mydex’s business development in Scotland, Wales and the North of England.

Viv Lacey

Non-executive Director

Viv brings a depth of experience in leadership, organisational challenge and development, and management from her career in consulting and the civil service.