Meet the people behind the company

Tom Cole

Director of product management

Tom realized early in his career that he had a passion for technology, joining Amulet Hotkey in 2008 as technical support. He progressed to project and resource manager, until leaving in 2017 to broaden his experience in product and project management. He rejoined in 2020 within the product group, and leads our product development, roadmap, and delivery.  

Stewart Holness

Executive Chairman

Stewart joined Amulet Hotkey in 2019 as Executive Chairman. With an engineering and marketing background, he has helped two start-ups float on NASDAQ, whilst working with a number of technology businesses through growth, funding, acquisitions & ultimately successful exits. Stewart is currently chairman of a number of other technology businesses.

Tony Hilliard

Chief Commercial Officer

Tony joined Amulet Hotkey in 2012. With a 25 year background in tier one technology vendors, channel partners and tech start-ups he has a wealth of experience in leading global sales and customer services teams. Based in London, Tony is responsible for the strategy and execution of Amulet Hotkey’s customer engagement and go-to-market programs.

Mike O’Sullivan

Chief Financial Officer

Mike joined Amulet Hotkey in 2019 as Chief Financial Officer. As a Deloitte trained Chartered Accountant, Mike has experience leading the finances of fast-growing, private equity-backed and leveraged, global technology businesses.

Sean Copeland

Executive Vice President

Sean Copeland joined Amulet Hotkey in 2018 after a 20-year career at Dell EMC and other fast-growing technology firms where he was focused on sales, brand marketing and product management. He heads global business development.

Karen Bonser

Head of Human Resources

Joining the team in 2014 Karen is responsible for the people management function, driving the people and culture strategy to support business objectives and organizational effectiveness. Karen covers resource planning, talent management, employee engagement, employment law, recognition and reward, payroll, learning and development.

Robert Giorlando

Regional Manager

Robert joined Amulet Hotkey as Regional Manager in 2015, bringing 18 years of experience working with GPU manufacturers. Robert is focused on growing and servicing the Asia Pacific and Oceania region, and helped establish our office in Australia.

Chris Dolman

Global Product Support Manager

Chris is a long serving employee, joining in 2004 at a time when many of our analogue extenders were hand soldered and assembled on the shop floor. In 2008 Chris moved to the Test and Repair department, before moving to London in 2011 to support our expanding support and service team. Here he was responsible for supporting our EMEA and APAC customers, and providing onsite support to London based customers. He is now responsible for customer support, drawing on his experience and expertise to manage a global team.

Chris Haswell

Senior Director, Global Business Development

Having spent nearly 30 years in the IT industry, Chris joined Amulet Hotkey in 2020. Chris’s background in product marketing, product management, and sales roles gives him the ideal skill set for driving Amulet Hotkey infrastructure solutions and go–to–market activities with Dell Technologies globally.

Dale Champion

Global Supply Chain Manager

Dale joined Amulet Hotkey in 2020 bringing over 20 years of Operational, Sales & Service Management across multiple market sectors for both Blue Chip & SME. Dale is responsible for Global Fulfilment through Manufacturing, Procurement, Planning, Logistics & Compliance. Always driven by wanting to continuously improve, Dale brings his wide knowledge and skillset to Amulet Hotkey to enable core business efficiencies. 

Lee Pearce

Marketing Manager

With more than a decade of IT channel marketing experience, we were delighted to welcome Lee Pearce to Amulet Hotkey in 2023 to drive our amplified marketing efforts.  

Prior to joining Amulet Hotkey Lee had spent six years at a leading B2B laptop business as their Northern Europe Marketing Manager.  

Ken Cardona

Enterprise Sales Director – Americas

Ken joined Amulet Hotkey in 2014 as an inside sales representative. His background in channel sales was soon leveraged as he was tasked with launching Amulet Hotkey’s channel program in the Americas.  Today, as Enterprise Sales Director for Amulet Hotkey in the Americas, Ken works closely with prospects and clients alike to determine the right solution for their business needs. 

Martin Traute

Regional Manager DACH & Eastern Europe

Martin joined in 2018 as our Regional Manager for DACH and Eastern Europe, transferring his knowledge following seven years working with one of our technology partners. Martin brings technology and sales experience to customers and prospects alike. He enjoys working as part of a collaborative, international team, where everyone has the chance to make a direct and measurable contribution to sales results, where he can connect with employees across all departments and stakeholders within the business.

Matt Allitt

Director of Engineering

Following studying electronic design at the University of Plymouth, Matt worked for a global consumer design and manufacturing company. Starting in product design and engineering, Matt continued his studies in Business Management to progress his career, managing OEM/ODM product manufacturers and R&D teams. He came across Amulet Hotkey when his role took him from consumer to commercial products, which led to him joining in 2019. Bringing a wealth of knowledge and experience, he quickly took over leading the engineering and product testing teams.   

Stu Robinson

Solutions Director

After studying electrical engineering, Stu worked with one of our technology partners where he was responsible for developing virtual and remote workstations. Working closely with the team at Amulet Hotkey for almost ten years, through that partnership, it was a natural step for Stu to join as our Solutions Director, bringing his years of technology solutions experience.