Séan Ryan – Director (Operations)

Sean is a graduate in Applied Physics with Microelectronics and Computing and spent his initial post graduate years in business computing. A year’s break spent travelling and volunteer working in Asia preceded a move into telecommunications ten years ago, where Sean worked on emerging technologies with blue chip companies such as Nokia. Sean is PRINCE2 foundation and practitioner qualified and so oversees all implementations.

Sean often describes 500 Limited as a sailing vessel with Jonathan as the sail, Sean as the keel! A boat which is all sail but has no keel goes fast but has no direction and conversely a boat which is all keel but has no sail has good direction but stays in one place; a boat with both sail and keel has both momentum and direction.

Outside of the office, when not spending time with this family, Sean is involved in a community action group, a youth group and is a trustee of a local charity.

Jonathan Rodwell – Director (Sales)

Jonathan comes from a background in property, moving from Property Development to Property Investment in 2003. It was during 2006, while needing a business grade office telephone system that Jonathan realised the potential of IP telephony. With an uncertain property market, he joined with his now business partner, Séan, to form 500 Limited.

Chris Wade – Quality Manager

Chris began his career in telecommunications, with BT, in 1969. He qualified as electrical and electronics engineer in England in 1973. In 1991 he earned a post graduate diploma in management studies. During the 1990s he was a lead assessor and implementer of globally recognised standards, including ISO9001 and ISO14001.

Chris has joined 500 as the Quality Manager. He will assist 500 in gaining ISO9001:2008 QMS accreditation and in time ISO14001, the Environmental Standard.

Helen McGovern – Project Co-ordinator

Helen has recently joined 500 as a Project Co-ordinator. Helen has over 10 years of telecoms experience as a Business Process Consultant working for blue chip companies such as Sema Group Telecoms Plc, Hong Kong Telecom and Orange. Helen has worked on major business process re-engineering projects on new technologies for mobile telephony clients in SE Asia, South America and Eastern Europe.