Lynn Woods

Chief Executive Officer

Lynn co-founded Adastra with software author James Berry in 1994.  He had previously enjoyed a 16-year career in the Royal Air Force, leaving as a Squadron Leader in 1988.  In 1992 Lynn was appointed to manage the SEADOC GP Co-operative based in Folkestone.  As SEADOC expanded to eventually cover a 70-mile strip of the south coast as far west as Brighton it became evident that an operational software capability was needed to manage activity over such a wide area, and thus Adastra came into being.

Barrie Clark

Non Executive Chairman

Barrie has extensive financial and general management experience covering both private and public companies. He currently holds other non executive board positions in three public companies as well as a number of private companies all of which utilise information and communications technology to deliver business services.

James Berry

Chief Technical Officer

Co-founding Director of Adastra - James achieved a first-class Honours Degree in Computer Sciences at the University of Southampton in 1995, finishing top of his year and winning the British Computer Society Prize for Outstanding Achievement. Now responsible for the architecture and design of the Adastra application, James adopts a hands-on approach to development and leads a development team of seven.  All Adastra software development is conducted in-house under James’ leadership.

Adrian Gilson

Managing Director

Adrian is an experienced manager with a wide business understanding. He has previously held senior roles in finance and holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration. He has responsibility for the Sales, Finance and Administration functions and has a keen interest in the training and development of the management team at Adastra. Adrian joined as General Manager in 2001 before being appointed a director in 2003 and becoming Managing Director in November 2006.

Dr Alex Yeates MB BS DRCOG

Medical Director

Alex is a General Practitioner in a seven-partner training practice in Rochester, Kent.  In 1989 he was a co-founder of the pioneering Medway GP Co-operative (MEDDOC), the first of the Kent-based services which were to go on to establish a template for corresponding services to develop across the rest of the UK.  Alex remains an active participant in the Medway service and chairs its Clinical Review Group.  He has also participated in the Department of Health’s Committee for Safety of Medicines developing policy on extended nurse prescribing and in the Out-of-Hours Review Team examining OoH Medicines Supply. And if after all this there is any spare time, he likes to fly his Piper Archer!

Martin Embry

Chief Operating Officer

Martin previously headed the Company's help-desk and support services. Martin has a first class Honours Degree in Industrial Relations with Computing, from the University of Kent. His appointment to the board in 2003 was of  particular significance as it ensured the development of a more cohesive relationship between the Training, Project Management and User Support Departments, which are all accommodated within Martin's brief at Board level. Martin's role also includes an over-arching interest in cross departmental co-ordination extending to the Technical Services (hardware) and Development (software) departments, which continue to be led at Board level by Anthony Hayes and James Berry respectively.

Anthony Hayes

Technical Services & IT Director

Anthony was previously Network Manager at US Gold and is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, Microsoft Certified Database Administrator, MCSE (Windows Server 2003) – Early Achiever, Citrix Certified Enterprise Administrator and a Cisco Certified Network Administrator. With extensive hardware and network experience, he is primarily responsible for the research and design of the technical infrastructure which accommodates the Adastra application, and he heads a large engineering support and installations team.