The Management Team

Lee Whelan – Managing Director

Lee started in business at the tender age of 21, spurning the call of further education and preferring to get stuck into the excitement of business. His first company provided book-keeping which he very quickly built into a management accounting practice incorporating audit and financial services divisions.
He then built an IT division within the Group and eventually decided to split this off and focus his energies on it and sell off the other Divisions. Despite his youthful appearance, Lee can trace Acuity’s humble beginnings back to 1989 with a capital expenditure budget of a 10th hand Escort and a calculator from WH Smiths.
He has worked in his various roles with small businesses through to assisting large clients sell their businesses in multi-million pound deals. However his real passion remains the building of Acuity to deliver outstanding customer service and an outstanding environment in which his staff are confident enough to develop their skills and enjoy themselves.

Steve Fuller - Operations Director

The sensible one in the Team, Steve has been working in a variety of roles in both the hardware and software fields, since graduating with an Honours degree in Business Information Technology. Experience within the National Health and a major UK based enterprise was followed by joining up with Lee Whelan in 1996 for the beginning of the Acuity experience. Steve has worked in all roles within the business, from Hardware Support Engineer, through software implementation consultant, salesman and tea boy, but is now leading the Operations department with the hardware, software and development teams all falling under his remit. A good looking chap, Steve is the voice of reason within Acuity and can always be relied upon to give an honest opinion!

Julie Bruce - International/Strategic Sales

Ageing gracefully, Julie has over 25 years experience of  the software industry – starting out her career in Corporate Sales with Apple Computers; authoring a self-teach guide to Microsoft Works and running her own software training company.  Then Julie threw herself into thrills of the Global ERP world – involved in everything from system selection to implementation for all the main players; however, she has focussed in the more recent years on Sage ERP X3, Accpac ERP and Sage CRM.  Julie looks after our International/Strategic Sales.

Andrew Lear - Technical Services Manager

Andy has been involved in the IT industry for longer than he can remember, originally as a trainee engineer for Wang OIS and VS machines. When the original IBM PC came out he was there at the start of it all. Graduating to networks he passed his CNE (Certified NetWare Engineer) and MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer). Being perceived as quite good at languages Andy landed several plumb contracts, including working in Paris and in a Polish brewery. He has been Technical Manager at Acuity for nearly eight years. He still spends a good deal of his time dealing with technical problems but has also been studying management with the Open University. He now holds a certificate and post grad-diploma in management and he is hoping to complete his MBA by the end of this year.

Franco Mosca - Customer Support Manager

Franco joined the Sage field back in 1997, when he started with a small London based Business Partner as a Hardware & Network Support Engineer. He left behind a Design & Engineering background to take on new and varied roles ranging from Software & Hardware Implementation & Support through to Account, Operations & Project Management. The takeover of this company in 2005, by Acuity, saw his transition to the more specific role of Software Consultant, and later Project Manager, and now Customer Service Manager. He thrives on working closely with customers and ensuring they receive the service they have come to expect of a leading Sage Business Partner. Franco’s on-going personal objective is for Acuity to gain supremacy of the Sage 'Circle of Excellence' Awards.

Tracy Bending - Projects Manager

Tracy has been involved with Sage for many many years! Originally as an end user of Line 100, she moved into a consultancy role where having an accountancy background really proved useful. She has worked for various Sage Business Partners and has countless implementations under her belt covering all types of business. A year was even spent living and working on a Sage project in Thailand. The next natural step was to become a Prince 2 Practitioner and move into the role of managing the projects. Tracy joined Acuity in 2009 as a Project Manager, is fully accredited in Sage 200 and now manages all the Acuity implementations.

Raj Senthilnathan - Software Development Manager

Raj has been working in I.T. since graduation from University in 1998. He completed a Graduate programme at Ericsson Telecommunications and started working for various Sage business partners between 2000-2004 in a mixture of roles including support, implementation and development. He started working at Acuity in 2004 as a developer/sage consultant and has been managing the development team since 2007.

James Taylor - Software Services Manager

James started his commercial life in the City of London working for the Government Freight Agency. He was responsible for specifying and devising the computer systems which replaced the existing paper based processes.
Following this he became the operations manager of one of the largest photographic distributors in the UK. He specified and oversaw the implementation of many additions and modifications to the Sage 100 software and he first worked with Lee Whelan who ran the Sage Business Partner. Lee hired James in 2005 because of his proven track record in business and systems analysis as well as his detailed understanding of Sage Software. James is now responsible for scoping and specifying projects on behalf of Acuity’s clients, working closely with the project management and development teams to ensure effective delivery.