OUR TEAM

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Dan Hooper

CEO

Dan has enjoyed a 20+ year career in technology, product and management consulting within Banking and Financial Services. His role is one of value creator – with a focus on the successful development of ideas, people and solutions.

Dan’s vision is very much geared towards solving complex big picture problems through leadership, client relationships the application of next generation ideas and technology. He is often invited to speak at conferences, and regularly contributes to industry articles and national press.

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Chris Dutta

Consultancy Services Director

In his role as Consultancy Services Director Chris is accountable for overseeing consulting delivery. Chris has 20+ years’ cross-sector testing experience., including financial services, manufacturing, retail and government.

Since founding Dragonfly, Chris has led the testing on a significant number of high-profile UK and global banking programmes.

Chris has also spoken at conferences and written for trade publications and press including The Sunday Times and The Financial Times.

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Adam Leon Smith

CTO

Adam is a specialist in software quality and emerging technologies, with deep technical expertise and nearly 20 years’ experience.

He has held senior technology roles at multinationals including Barclays and Deutsche Bank, delivering large complex transformation projects.

Adam is Chair of the BCS Special Interest Group in Software Testing and holds officer roles with ISO/IEC in the AI and Software & Systems Engineering committees.

Stacey Howard

Chief Commercial Officer

Stacey began her career in recruitment and has over 10 years of in-house and agency engineering recruitment experience. She started Dragonfly People (formerly Reco) with the ambition of providing an in-house service at a contingency cost.

She has since moved into a broader role to head up the sales function for all of our service lines, including our engineering and quality management platform, neuro.