The team

The driving force and public face of the business, Peter founded Mimecast in 2003 with CTO, Neil Murray.

With the support of angel investors, loyal customers and a strong management team, Peter has overseen eight consecutive years of continual growth.  He relocated to Boston in August 2011 to help drive the expansion of Mimecast's US business, and was instrumental in securing $62m of Series C funding from global private equity firm, Insight Venture Partners in September 2012.

Peter’s career began in South Africa, where, after studying marketing and founding a successful distribution company, he trained as a Microsoft systems engineer and began working with corporate messaging systems. He founded his first technology company, FAB Technology, in the mid-nineties.

A leading integrator of new internet and messaging technologies, the business grew rapidly and was acquired in 1998 by Idion, a JSE-listed technology business. Peter became Idion Managing Director, a role he stayed in until, observing trends in internet business services, he decided to move to the UK.

Neil is one of the people who helped build Mimecast. Not just metaphorically, but literally. He’s led the development team from our inception – when he was the development team – overseeing the construction of our platform from the ground up. It’s thanks to him that Mimecast, uniquely, was conceived and built as a single, integrated platform rather a set of bolted-together services.

Today he oversees the architecture of the service platform and sets out the overall technical vision and strategy for the service.

Before Mimecast, Neil was the CTO of South African, JSE-listed, Global Technology Services, a provider of business information solutions, which had bought Pro-Solutions, a software development company he helped found in the early 90s.

Neil’s 20 year-career also includes experience architecting and building leading software products for internet banking, messaging and rapid application development.

Keith is our Chief Operating Officer, giving him responsibility for all aspects of Mimecast that involve how systems and technologies drive our growth and constantly evolving efficiencies and scalability. Keith has assumed a number of roles in Mimecast spanning most of the business from Marketing to Customer Experience to Technical Operations: with this broad and deep knowledge of the business he is perfectly placed to be catalyst for business wide operating efficiency and agility.

This role is perfectly suited to his background in business strategy and management. Keith joined Mimecast in 2008 after having spent seven years driving disruptive business models in the telecommunications sector in both incumbent telcos and start ups. 


Over the ten years previous to joining Mimecast Keith has worked across banking, media and telecoms. Consulting on consumer adoption of new technologies – like IP telephony and mobile money transfers – and developing business, marketing and media strategies.

Matthew joined Mimecast in June 2010 as our Communications Director and was promoted to Chief Strategy Officer in May this year.  He looks after the global marketing function and uses his communications skills, which include being a published novelist, to bring the Mimecast story to life for all our stakeholder audiences, internal and external.

Before joining Mimecast, Matthew ran his own consultancy business acting as a Communications Director for a number of tech companies, and helping executives build their ‘personal brands’.  Previously, he spent more than 20 years in various positions within the Next Fifteen group of PR agencies, including the founding of Bite Communications in 1995 and the setting up of Text 100’s Asia Pacific business while based in Sydney.

Matthew studied linguistics at Reading University and spends whatever free time he can carve out either playing the piano in a blues band, or practicing martial arts.

Peter was hired as CFO of Mimecast in 2006. He is responsible for overseeing the Company’s global financial strategy and operations. Since joining the organization as employee number 14, Peter has built a global team to meet the ever-changing financial and operational demands of a rapidly growing SaaS business. It now encompasses Finance, Human Resources, IT systems, Legal, Facilities Management and Admin.  Peter was a driving figure in securing the investment from Index Ventures and Dawn Capital in 2009 and the various Angel funding rounds that preceded them.

Peter brought 15 years experience in the IT sector to Mimecast. Prior to joining he was CFO of SR Telecom, a Nasdaq listed company with over 500 staff and operations in 26 countries, based in Montreal, Canada. Having joined as Assistant Controller, Peter was rapidly promoted through the ranks and was a key team member in securing the SEC listing and successful acquisitions including the $121M takeover of Netro Corporation.

Peter holds a Chartered Accountant Designation with the Canadian Order of Chartered Accountants, and is a Certified Public Accountant.

As founder of Mimecast South Africa in 2003, Garth helped pioneer Cloud SaaS in the region and ultimately established Mimecast as the market leader, with more than 40% market share, the lowest customer churn rates and the highest customer satisfaction rates in the industry. Today, as Chief Experience Officer (CXO), Garth is the custodian of an "exceptional Mimecast experience" for all stakeholders - from prospects to customers, partners, investors and staff in all channels and across all functions.

Garth has a 27 year history in the SA IT industry, starting out as a software developer and then moving into business, primarily focusing on regional market development for niche international software vendors in the field of knowledge management. His achievements include successfully introducing and establishing Siebel (now Oracle), Keyfile EDM & BPM (now Global360) and Verity (now Autonomy) into Southern Africa.

Alan joined Mimecast in 2008 as Sales Director, before taking on the role of General Manager for the UK, Europe and Middle East.  Over the last five years he has played a vital role in shaping and overseeing the go to market and customer experience strategies that have underpinned our rapid growth, and now brings the same insight and experience to his role as Chief Performance Officer.
 
Today, Alan is responsible for driving business and revenue performance across our rapidly expanding global organisation.  He holds overall responsibility for global revenues and for our human resources and performance functions.  In particular, his focus is on enabling greater cohesion between our regional teams and, therefore, more effective global execution of our go to market and customer experience strategies.
 
Alan started his career with Vistorm, a top security VAR in the UK, before moving on to SurfControl.  There he held channel and sales roles before being promoted to UK Channel Sales Director.