Mary Turner, Chief Executive Officer

Mary Turner was appointed CEO of AlertMe.com Ltd. in February 2010. Prior to this role, Mary was CEO of broadband company Tiscali UK from 2001, growing the company from less than half a million dial-up customer to the third largest DSL provider in the UK with 1.8m broadband customers and a revenue of €608m by 2008.

As CEO of Tiscali UK, Mary headed up the acquisitions of ISPs TinyOnline, Gateway and Dellnet in 2002, npower’s telephone base in 2003. During 2004 Tiscali became the fastest growing broadband provider in the UK after it launched the first broadband product for the same price as a dial-up subscription, making it affordable for the mass market. Further acquisitions followed with Video Networks IPTV business (Homechoice) in 2006 and The Pipex broadband and telephone business in 2007, before the sale of Tiscali UK to The Talk Talk Group, Part of The Carphone Warehouse Group in 2009. Ms Turner has remained in an advisory capacity to the TalkTalk Group since the sale and is on the board of ASOS PLC.

During her time in the ISP industry Mary was General Manager UK (ISP and Portal) and Vice-President Marketing Europe for AOL Bertelsmann/CompuServe Information Services. In this role she developed and implemented the marketing strategy of CompuServe taking it to number one brand position. In 1999 she became CEO of LineOne, a joint venture between BT and United Media, leading the sale of this business to Tiscali SpA the Milan listed company in 2001.

Following the sale, she joined Tiscali UK as Managing Director of the Consumer Business, leading the integration of multiple operations already acquired by Tiscali, including WorldOnline and Liberty Surf. Mary became CEO of Tiscali UK in 2003 and was a member of the leadership team for the Tiscali Group.

Mary also has extensive consumer retail experience through senior management roles at Elizabeth Arden, Avon and the Innovations Group.

Pilgrim Beart, Founder of AlertMe

Pilgrim Beart has 20 years experience in ground breaking, high-technology companies and has founded three businesses as well as holding senior roles at a number of other companies. Most recently he was Vice President of Research & Development at Splashpower where he was responsible for creating and protecting the core technology of the wireless power company.

After graduating with a degree in Computer Engineering from City University, London, Pilgrim began his career in Oxford, designing computer boards for Solid State Logic.

After six years working in Silicon Valley in the 1990's for the likes of Atari and Chromatic Research (now AMD), in 1999 Pilgrim headed back to his home town of Cambridge. Here he founded two companies: activeRF Ltd. and antenova Ltd.

Michael Black, Chief Financial Officer

Michael Black is responsible for financial management of the company, including financial planning, cost and revenue control and fund raising. He also takes an active role in the operational management of the business.

Between 2002 and 2008 Michael worked for Cambridge Display Technology (CDT), most recently as Chief Financial Officer. Whilst at CDT Michael was responsible for strategic financial planning of the business and participated in raising over $70 million of equity capital for the business plus a $15 million debt line, as well as being involved in acquisitions and disposals in the UK and US. He played a leading role in CDT's IPO in December 2004 on the US Nasdaq market and was responsible for investor relations and public company compliance activities for CDT as a US public company. In 2007, he lead the detailed negotiations to sell CDT to Sumitomo Chemical of Japan for $285 million, a premium of nearly 100% on the previous market price.

In his earlier career, Michael first worked in internal trade finance with Leyland DAF trucks and then joined the European HQ of DuPont Merck Pharmaceuticals where he was responsible for a variety of finance and IT projects based on the UK and US. During his time with DuPont Pharma, he was involved in new subsidiary creation, acquisition and joint venture planning and assisted in the project to sell the division to Bristol Myers Squibb for nearly $8 billion in 2001.