Leadership Team
CopperMan Consulting specialises in the design, implementation and support of SAP Business Objects Planning & Consolidation for Netweaver and Microsoft.
The team consists of highly skilled consultants. These consulting skills encompass system design, implementation, technical, project management and support areas, and each consultant will have a broad knowledge across all these areas with deep expertise in one or more specialist aspect of SAP BPC.
CopperMan has a proven track record of implementation success and experience of many high profile projects, mostly with UK FTSE companies. Our clients include BBC, Barclays Capital (Barcap), Aegis Group plc, Trinity Mirror plc, SEGRO plc, Hanson plc, GUS plc, Compass Group PLC, The Morgan Crucible Company plc and several other FTSE 100 companies.
The company directors have over 14 years' experience of implementing SAP BPC dating back to its days as EAP/Everest/Outlooksoft.
Stephen Garbett .Managing Director
Over 12 years experience in the fields of Performance Management, Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing.
Stephen has a history of successfully running small management consultancy’s previously as Managing Director of SDG UK, leading the sales efforts focused on SAP EPM, Hyperion EPM & Board and prior to this as Managing Director of the consulting division at Microgen plc, with a turnover in excess of £10m and over 100 consultants.
He first entered the world of "Performance Management" in 1999 on joining Adaytum, a software company focused on financial planning and consolidation. This was later acquired by Cognos and he went on to sell some of the largest integrated financial management/business intelligence solutions throughout EMEA.
He began his career with Energis plc and holds a BA(Hons) degree in Philosophy from the University of Durham.
Anis El-Mariesh (ACA)
Client Services Director
Professional, well rounded and highly regarded management consultant with strong specialisation around the implementation of BPM software in large multinational clients, enhanced by a professional accountancy qualification (ACA) gained from a big four accountancy practice, line finance experience, many years of professional management consultancy for medium and large clients and strong relevant IT skills and experience.
Anis has specialised over the past four years in multiple large scale SAP BPC implementations covering financial consolidation, business planning and other performance reporting requirements. Responsibilities primarily included application design, technical implementation and business process redesign in order to meet client business requirements.
Prior to SAP BPC, Anis was a management consultant within a large UK based consultancy practice (Ernst & Young Consulting) specialising in performance and process management.
Stephen Morris
Consulting Director
Stephen worked initially in the oil industry, where he was recognised as a developer of financial management and control applications. He moved to working with the software industry, where he gained more than 10 years experience of implementing ERP applications. He ran and successfully grew the consulting organisations for several software vendors, before moving to the Business Intelligence market. Here he has more than 10 years of experience, using products including Essbase, Business Objects, Frango and most recently OutlookSoft / SAP BPC, where he has lead some of the most successful implementations, including the Hanson implementation.
Paul Rowbotham
Technical Director
An award winning CIMA accountant, Paul worked as a management accountant and group accountant for Reed Elsevier plc before moving in to Group Systems Accountants roles for Reed Elsevier, GEC Marconi PLC and Hanson PLC. Since 1994 he has developed extensive knowledge of applying OLAP systems to real world forecasting, reporting and consolidation situations. Having previously worked with Oracle Express and OFA, Hyperion Enterprise and Essbase and Frango, Paul was one of the first in the UK to spot the potential of Outlooksoft. Paul has been working with Outlooksoft and SAP BPC since 2004.
