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ANS Group hires Bain as COO

Posted on March 30, 2023 by - News

ANS Group has appointed Colin Bain as its new chief operating officer.

The announcement follows the appointment of a new CFO, Alex Hodgson, as ANS strengthens its group board in preparation for its next growth phase.

Bain joins ANS from QuantiQ where he was a COO and managing director. He took a role in growing the company to become the largest independent Microsoft Dynamics 365 partner in the UK, before the firm’s sale to global Microsoft solutions powerhouse Avanade in 2021.

A CIMA chartered accountant, Bain has experience in the delivery of software and tech services and has worked with Microsoft Dynamics since its inception.

He takes responsibility for the largest division within ANS, with a brief covering professional services, managed services and transformation.

Britain a fail on recruiting female IT folk

Posted on November 27, 2013 by - News

Scott Fletcher, ANS GroupAn Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) skills report has shown that only seven percent of IT engineers in the UK are female.

Worse than that, that percentage has only risen by two percent over the last five years.

We’re lagging behind Spain (18%), Italy (20%) and Sweden (26%), the survey shows.

Scott Fletcher, chairman and founder of cloud company ANS Group, said: “We need to increase the flow of young talent into tech and engineering industries and attracting more women is an obvious answer. Currently a large proportion of female Stem graduates (science, technical, engineering and mathematics) are choosing careers in other industries.”

And there’s even worse news because a report from the Institute of Physics earlier this showed half of all the co-educational schools in the UK hadn’t entered a single female student to sit A level physics.

“It seems that Britain’s schools have pigeon holed physics as a ‘boys’ subject which is a notion that needs to be eradicated immediately,” he said. “The IT industry is obviously fluid and businesses need to re-invent themselves every few years. There is no sitting back on past glories in our industry and young talent is the essential fuel for that re-invention.”

Fletcher said the ANS Group has formed a “Cloud Academy” providing training for 60 apprentices a year.  The firm is based in Manchester.