The Team

We’ve assembled a crack team of specialists so that you get a complete staff room of ‘know-it-all’s for much less than the cost of one man, and they’re all at your call.

Take some time to meet our department heads and familiarise yourself with our up-town, top-ranking support and projects team.

Paul Appleby Managing and Technical Director

Owner and Technical Director of Protia Ltd, parent company of London Data. Founded in 2003, Protia provides full, complementary and project outsource IT solutions and support to medium and enterprise sized clients in London, national and international locations. With a great team beside me our company grows in strength and reach. If you’re looking for a new IT partner, contact me directly for an informal, non-committal chat and find out more about us and how London Data can serve your company, deliver perfect IT and probably save you money.


Matthew Manning Maintenance & Projects Manager

A member of the London Data family since 2009, Matt heads up the Maintenance team here in the LD offices. Dealing with regular server rounds, network traffic testing and graphing, patch deployment, AV updates and all other critical network elements that need to be spot on, all the time. As one of our consultants he also gets the team involved in all of our bespoke projects, working from the ground up to ensure critical network services and communications are kept clear, secure and reliable from day one.

Terry May Support Manager

Terry is London Data’s first line support manager, so when you call us, you will get the skilled assistance of his team. Terry is part of the consultant team who go to clients and solves issues directly on site, both for our full support, complementary support clients, and for disaster recovery.

Carl Harri IT Support

Carl is heading the research team that use their extensive knowledge to provide state-of-the-art sound solutions to our clients. Carl is part of the consultant team, and he specialises in on-site set-ups and migrations from one software to another. Carl also has in-depth experience with emergency data recovery.

Karen Bodil Pii Svane Business Development Manager

Karen heads the Business Development team that deals with marketing, communication, sales, branding of London Data as well as strategic business development. She is also in charge of partnerships and joint ventures with software houses, specialist solution providers and international technology companies looking for a London-specialised company; we know who to contact, we know the area, we know how London businesses work.

Steve Nicholas IT Support Officer

Steve works full-time stationed with a client in North London, NW3, where he provides full day-to-day support on work stations, servers etc. for all the client’s employees. London Data guarantees the client full coverage and sends replacements when Steve is e.g. on leave. Steve manages servers, updates of programmes, virus threats and general IT, as well as any technology issue that may arise during the day